Bit Crusher VST Plugins

Destroy any mix in bits and pieces

Degrader is a combined resampler and bit crusher plugin. It can be used to simulate the sound of vintage digital gear, as a lofi-effect or distortion unit.

Since all parameters are fully automatable it’s a handy plugin for creating unique and interesting drops, sweeps and other transitions.

• 1. Filter bubble – Choose low pass filter character before and after resampling (off, low-q, high-q). Frequency is fixed to half the sample rate value.
• 2. Resampler – Control the amount of jitter, plus any sample rate between 250 Hz and 96kHz.
• 3. Crush them bits – Go as low as 3 bits of low resolution, and if that isn’t enough – saturate until unrecognizable.
• 4. Master them bits – Use Input/Output to trim the gain levels, set the blend with the unprocessed signal, and A/B-test the effect with the Power button.

Features

• Resamples between 250 Hz and 96 kHz
• Low pass filter with different characteristics both pre and post resampling
• Bit depth can continuously be altered between 3 and 24 bits
• Additional distortion algorithm
• Parameter linking (control several parameters with one knob)
• Input and output gain control
• Dry / Wet mix
• Several factory presets simulating different vintage gear

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Experience the raw energy of digital degradation with Bitpunk, the ultimate audio plugin for bit manipulation. Unleash its immense power to transform your sound through a wide range of bit-altering techniques, including swapping, crushing, inverting, and morphing. With an array of cutting-edge bit-mangling effects, as well as master compression, saturation, and hard clipping, Bitpunk stands as the pinnacle of bit plugins, pushing the boundaries of sonic exploration like never before.

Powerful Bit Manipulation: Bitpunk is an extremely powerful and versatile digital degradation effect. It can manipulate bits in various ways, such as bit swapping, classic bit crushing, bit inverting, and bit morphing. With a host of bit-mangling FX and master compression, saturation and hard clipper, it is probably the most advanced bit plugin to date.

Enhance Or Destroy: Bitpunk can subtly enrich your sound in various ways. Add top-end crunch with some bit-crushing and rate reduction, smooth it out with the filters, beef up the low end with feedback, and then compress and saturate for ultimate enhancement. Or go hard by smashing the life out of the bits, deforming them with frequency shifting and glitch FX, then overdrive everything through aggressive compression and hard clipping. Bitpunk can go from subtle sonic magic to all-out degradation, deformation and destruction.

Create A Difference: The main focus of the plugin is to swap bits from two channels, A and B. For the bit-swapping to have an effect, the two channels must be different in some way. We provide many ways to achieve this with A and B FX, which sound great in their own right and downright dirty when bit-swapped. They include a rate reducer, square-wave frequency shifter, syncable delay, high-pass & low-pass filters and more.

A New Crush: When in Mute mode, Bitpunk allows you to swap bits from the input with silenced bits for the classic bit-crushing effect. Standard bit crushers, silence the bits starting from highest to lowest, however here you can mute them in any order you wish for a modern twist on a classic effect.

Swap With Anything: Bitpunk has a sidechain input that lets you route any audio into the B channel. You can then swap bits between the two signals allowing you to smoothly morph between two sound sources in very unique ways. Additionally, you could use the sidechain to duplicate the input signal and use external FX to create the differences between the two channels.

Master FX: After you have finished deforming and degrading your audio with the bit FX, you can treat the sound to some enhancements to finalize the sound. There is an aggressive compressor, soft clipping diode saturation, high-pass & low-pass filters and a hard clipper. Use them to tame harshness, fatten the sound, or overdrive it into oblivion, then blend the overall effect with the master Dry/Wet mix.

Hassle-free software protection: No iLok, no dongle nor internet access is required for activation. Our software uses licence files to activate your software. You can freely use the purchased software on all your computers as long as you are the user.

Realistic 3D yet flexible GUI: The photorealistic graphic user interface of the plugin gives you the feeling you are touching the real hardware. But it easily adapts to your needs. You can always drag the arrow in the bottom right corner to change its size – make it smaller to save valuable screen space, or enlarge it to make it easier to use.

64-bit audio quality at ANY sampling rate: The plugin provides the maximum audio quality you can get. It uses internal 64-bit audio processing and can handle any sampling rate. 192 kHz or even higher.

Smart bypass: The intelligent way our plugins manage bypassing ensures that you don’t get any clicks or harmful noises when automating the parameter. It also compensates for latency ensuring that the bypass states are perfectly in sync with each other.

Intelligent sleep on silence: This plugin intelligently detects whether it makes sense to perform processing at all. And if not, it temporarily turns on sleep mode. In such a state, it requires virtually no CPU at all to save the computing sources for other processes.

Free-for-life updates: Our plugins never get obsolete. We keep track of the current operating systems and DAWs. And you may always update to the most recent version for free. Without paying a cent, a penny, or whatever currency you prefer.

Breathing Bit Crushing

Litbit is a simple little bit crusher with a fluid and organic-ly digital sound. It breathes and flows around your audio as it crunches and munches it into lofi goodness.

How is litbit different than the millions of other bit crushers? Litbit’s secret power is in its breathe knobs. Bit crushers are great effects – but often the sound can be too static or unmusical. With litbit, the breathe knobs allow the bit/sample rate reduction to follow the audio input. What results is a smooth and dynamic bit crushing effect that breathes along with your audio.

What else does it do?

Well, first of all – the breathing function doesn’t just need to follow its own audio – it can be sidechained to any other audio track – allowing for complex gestures or pulsating crushing effects that dynamically interact with other instruments.

Then of course, theres crinkle. Crinkle is essentially a jitter or randomize function, and it adds a bit of noisy chaos to the bit/sample rate reduction. The speed of the crinkle is controllable and can be set to mono or stereo – which at slow speeds adds a gorgeous stereo sparkle to your sound.

Not noisy enough? There’s a DC Offset button that realigns the signal and gets quiet sections to blow out and crunch a bit more.

Still not noisy enough? There’s an extra noise dial to add some stereo noise to your signal (pre-effect).

To round the whole thing off, we end with a traditional one knob lopass/hipass dj filter and a blown out saturator to help grime up the sound and blast it through your speakers.

The icing on this lofi cake is the gorgeous lissajous display, which draws your sound in real time so you can watch it crunch

Designed to inspire you in ways no ordinary bitcrusher can, CrushShaper is powered by Cableguys’ easy drawable LFOs and flexible envelope followers. Now you can crush specific hits and frequency ranges.

Discover inspirational distortion patterns. Deploy tasteful mix tricks. Go 8-bit and beyond! It’s the ultimate creative bitcrusher.

Main Features:

• Get rhythmic inspiration – Turn even the plainest loops into track‑starting grooves using pro presets and drawable LFOs
• Make melodies lo-fi – Take your tracks back in time! From dark and fuzzy vintage digital to bright and spiky videogame vibes
• Fatten your treble – Crush just the highs for modern, in‑your‑face sizzle. Try it on drums, loops, synths – anything
• Give drums attitude – From phat old‑school downsampling to cutting‑edge crunch and bite
• Design gnarly bass – Drop the sample rate down low for sub‑rumbling vowel movements and gritty bass textures.
• Crush hits in a loop – Take aim! Target snares in a beat, notes in a riff, and more, with multiband LFOs and envelopes
• Make vocals pop – Add focused top‑end clarity for that modern, upfront vocal sound that pops through the mix

Crunch. Bits. Resample

Combine 3 distinct bitcrushing styles: Crunch for fuzz, grind and grit. Bits to reduce audio resolution, going 8-bit and beyond. Resample for digital overtones and lo-fi retro sound. Animate each with its own custom LFO and envelope follower, then filter and layer with the dry signal using the handy FX Mix section.

LFOs that you design

From smoothly gliding sample rate reduction to intense stepped distortion patterns, any pattern or wave shape you can imagine is just clicks away with Cableguys’ famous wave-editing tools. Lock your LFOs to host tempo with sample accuracy, or trigger in any rhythm with MIDI notes.

Powerful Pens

Designing the perfect bitcrushing LFO is fast and simple with three powerful, easy-to-grasp Pens. Draw crisp lines, smooth arcs and flowing S-curves. Easily pick out single hits in a loop, and rapidly sketch wild rhythmic sequences. Switch back to classic single-node editing anytime.

Flexible envelope followers

Discover dynamic bitcrushing that reacts to your beats, loops, melodies – anything. Use CrushShaper’s flexible envelope followers to reduce the sample rate with the transient of each note. Lower the bit-depth as synths grow louder. Trigger from other tracks in your project using sidechain routing.

Multiband bitcrushing

With up to three bands of highly targeted bitcrushing, CrushShaper becomes an incredible mix tool and an even crazier creative playground. Add sizzling top-end air for ultra-modern sounds that leap from the mix. Rhythmise midrange with percolating bit patterns. Grind the bass with gnarly resampling.

Inspiring presets

Get inspired with dozens of LFO wave presets, and share patches with others via the syncable Cableguys Preset Cloud. Up your workflow with 1-click Quick Presets for production essentials like snare enhancement, rhythmic stutters, and more. Just add the plugin, click and create.

This product is part of a greater collection of products. Check out ShaperBox 3 here.

TOTAL SOUND DEVASTATOR

It’s not a straight forward bit crusher. As the name says; it’s a total sound Devastator. It gives all of the commonly used Lo-Fi distortion / audio resolution degradation features for adding very unique shapes to your sound.

SIMPLIFIED CONTROLS

It allows you to create low resolution audio and bit crushed sound through a variety of controls with different sonic characteristics. With tweaking just one knob, you will see the significant difference and tone degradation on your tracks.

ADVANCED DEGRADE FX

With fully automable functions, it can be used on anything; even on a total mix. Nice intros or transition effects, tone adding / deforming your tracks, classic SID chip sound emulating, giant distorted drums, digitally distorted guitars, angry basses and so on.

PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS

• NoiseAsh’s Magical, Fast Analog Quality All in One DSP Engine
• Lo-Fi degrade unit with “Bit Reduction & Sample Amount” settings
• Vintage analog saturation
• Special distortion algorithm
• Low Shelf & High Shelf Solid State EQ
• LP & HP Filters
• Simplified controls, lot’s of creative possibilities
• Resizable GUI
• Friend of CPU

Electronic music (especially Hip-Hop) producers have long been aware that classic samplers (such as early Akai and E-MU units) had a character and sound all their own: they added a “grit” and “color” to the samples and loops they played back which made them sound “fat” and sit well in a mix. This sound coloration was due to the encoding techniques, lower sample rate and bit depth, and conversion circuits used by these early samplers. Decimort recreates this coloration and adds that vintage sampler magic back to any loop, any bassline, or any sound played through it for that matter! Beyond vintage sampler emulation, it’s also the perfect bit-crusher with filter, capable of extreme settings for dramatic results.

The highest quality low-quality effect you can buy

While this tagline may seem like an oxymoron on the surface, allow us to explain: the Decimort effect unit (available as part of the SilverLine collection of plugins from D16) is a premium grade bit crusher and sample rate reducer with some highly unconventional features. The advanced signal processing algorithms within Decimort simulate the complex behavior of the entire sampling path that exists in every AD/DA converter, and with version 2 comes far greater control over the process! Decimort has zero internal aliasing—in fact, the only aliasing present is the emulated aliasing of the classic samplers we modeled when creating it. Unwelcome artefacts are completely absent in the processed signal: only the desirable, modeled ones remain.

More control than any other effect of this type Decimort isn’t just another bitcrusher with only bit resolution and sampling frequency to tweak; in fact, it provides far more advanced features than you likely could have ever expected from an effect of this kind, all implemented in stunning quality.

Two optional anti-alias filters – A very steep low-pass pre filter (Approximative Filter) coupled with the resampling frequency that removes all harmonic content above it, ensuring no aliasing will appear below this frequency in the spectrum. A further post filter (Image filter), also synchronized with the resampler, gives control over amount of aliasing images appearing above resampling frequency when enabled

Adjustable Jitter – An unprecedented feature in the bit crusher’s world which introduces short-period, random fluctuations to the resampling frequency, thus making the process even more sonically interesting by producing a type of harmonic distortion you’ve likely never heard in this context.

Two quantization methods – Two available quantization methods; the mid-raiser and mid-tread decimation algorithms, each of them characterized by a drastically different dynamics response.

Controllable dithering – Dithering was conceptually developed as means to reduce audible quantization errors by masking the harmonic distortions they cause. We added controllable dithering to increase number of ways in which you can (mal)treat the sound. All this adds up to a very powerful and musical tool which is not only another creativity-releasing item for your arsenal, but one that gives you the ability to emulate classic sampling units in-the-box—now with even greater precision through access to a variety of parameters unavailable up till now in effects of this type!