The filter sounds great, but an LFO would have made an interesting addition, and could even have been used to modulate other parameters, like Jitter and Resample.
#D16group decimort 2 plus
It can operate in low-pass, high-pass, band-pass and band-reject modes, and has cutoff/centre frequency and resonance/bandwidth controls, plus the option to be placed pre or post Quantizer and Resampler.
Beating the crushĭecimort's multimode filter remains unchanged. Used with the Images Filter, Jitter can deliver fantastic digital distortion with no harshness at all.
It adds crunch, from gentle all the way to '80s videogame'. These can be used to smooth the sound or remove sonic artefacts introduced into the signal path by the modeling process to your taste.Then there's the Images Filter, its Frq Shift knob effectively serving as a 'digital harshness' control by removing unpleasant upper-frequency artifacts after resampling, with a response similar to that of a tone dial.Īlso new, Jitter introduces random variation to the Resampler, mimicking the dodgy action of old sampling technology. We added controllable dithering to increase number of ways in which you can (mal)treat the sound.Īll 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!ĭecimort is also equipped with analog-like filters with adjustable resonance that allow further sculpting of the signal. 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.Ĭontrollable dithering - Dithering was conceptually developed as means to reduce audible quantization errors by masking the harmonic distortions they cause. A further post filter (Image filter), also synchronized with the resampler, gives control over amount of aliasing images appearing above resampling frequency when enabledĪdjustable 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 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. More control than any other effect of this typeĭecimort 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: Unwelcome artefacts are completely absent in the processed signal: only the desirable, modeled ones remain. 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!ĭecimort has zero internal aliasing-in fact, the only aliasing present is the emulated aliasing of the classic samplers we modeled when creating it. 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 highest quality low-quality effect you can buy 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. This sound coloration was due to the encoding techniques, lower sample rate and bit depth, and conversion circuits used by these early samplers. 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.