Decimort can process left and right channels independently or together. Decimort really does sound like crusty old digital gear, though whether you actually think this is 'better' is a matter of taste.Ĭontrols-wise, at Decimort's heart are the bit-depth and sample-rate reduction knobs, which range from 1-16 bits (or Off), and 0 to 44.1kHz respectively. The results are a grittier tone, without the harsh (sometimes constant) 'fizzing' artifacts of lesser crushers, albeit at the expense of higher CPU usage. D16 tell us that, amongst other things, Decimort interpolates the incoming wave to reconstruct a more 'analogue' version, then applies noise to mimic the natural dither caused by circuitry. Unlike the crude algorithms used in, say, Cubase and Live's bitcrushers, Decimort emulates how the circuitry inside analogue-to-digital and digital-to-analogue converters actually works.
Old school samplers from the 1980s were only able to sample at lower rates, giving many productions of the day a crunchy quality that today's technology doesn't impart, and many are keen to recreate such sounds. Though on the face of it these phenomena are undesirable, a little lo-fi can give some funky grit to a sound. At moderate values, this adds a grungy hiss, but at extreme settings, the wave becomes very distorted. Lowering the bit depth means that fewer values are available to represent the vertical position of each sample, leading to a 'stepped' waveform - the samples are quantised to a vertical grid. The number of available digital volume levels that are used to describe each sample is dictated by the bit depth. The sample rate determines how many times a second a signal is digitally recorded - ie, sampled. More notably, it's not just the bit-depth that's tinkered with - the sample rate can be lowered too, a proces known as decimation.
Pedants will scoff that the 'bit crusher' tag often associated with such digital lo-fi effects isn't too accurate, unless you consider crushing to be the same thing as reduction. The latest addition to D16 Group's SilverLine range of affordable plug-ins aims to provide a high-quality alternative to lo-fi effects such as Cubase's BitCrusher, Logic's Bitcrusher, and Live's Redux. As a "high-quality" lo-fi effect we hope the latest SilverLine processor doesn't crush our dreams and leave us in bits
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