This is a bitcrusher. well, more or less. as with all e-phoniq free products, you can be sure you'll get much more than what's expected.
I remember some months ago I was searching desperately for a bitcrusher. My host didn't have one, and I had read that a bitcrusher could do amazing things on your drums. I found a free bitcrusher and it covered the need for some time...until I found LOFI.
LOFI is a plugin for mangling your imput signal to the extreme. It consists of 4 effect chains plus an amplifier. They can be turned on and off at your will, and the signal passes through all the on ones till coming out.
First there's the Down Scaler, which allows you to extremely play with the pitch of the imput signal. Then comes the Crusher, the most extreme effect onboard, which basically reduces the quality of the audio till turning it into a noise but never losing its musicality (well, that depends on you); third comes the Filter, a very good one, with LowPass, HighPass and BandPass, cut off and resonance, so that the sound may become even more extreme, and finally the Shaper to add a final extreme touch to the sound.
As an extreme effect that it is, it depends on the audio signal and more important on your ability to make it musical that the final results will be great or simply unlistenable...which is sometimes good too, don't you think?
For heavily noisy industrial drums this plugin is seriously recommended. it can slip out of your control easily, but even when it's noisy this effect stays elegant. I'm not lying to you, just try it.
It's free. Together with e-phoniq Retrodelay you can appease your experimental and extreme inner self same was as I do.
As with all e-phoniq products, stability is guaranteed. never had a crash with it.Read more