Bit Crusher: worthless?

[Prints]

That’s cool that it’s gone from useless to your favorite in the course of the last year. I still don’t really get the point of this effect. I’d understand if it was made to emulate some of the older samplers 8 & 12bit stuff but (granted I don’t know which OS I’m using ATM) it just sounds bad to me and I would have far more use for a sample rate reducer.

With this 1.21RC OS I have, where the effects have been improved, I can get samples to sound very 12-bit like an old-school sampler. Before this OS (without this OS), you can refer to the post I started this thread with. I still think this effect is worthless unless you are using OS 1.21RC.

[barto]

Just wanted to mention that with the 1.21RC OS I’ve been using the past several months, all the effects sound much better, including this effect. From what I recall before, this effect didn’t do anything noticeable to the sound until the knob was turned quite a bit; and when it did, it just became too drastic of an effect (like it was either nothing or noise). Now, I can actually hear the effect subtly when I gradually turn the knob, and it sounds great. Actually, it’s one of the better bit-reduction effects I’ve used.

I think people were nuts for complaining about having to make minor adjustments to their effect levels to take advantage of this. I never used this effect before, and now I use it often. It is so much better the way it was intended to work.

yesss! the reverb and delay has been lacking for me, especially when compared to the same fx on the A4

[Bwax]

Has anyone else noticed improvements in the bitcrusher? I can’t tell if it’s placebo effect or something but I swear it sounds better these days. (I recently re-purchased a Rytm + have been listening to more lo-fi music in general). Last time I tested this thing it just sounded like grating digital noise. Now it sounds like an old-school sampler. I’m kinda wondering if I really need to find an OTO Biscuit now or if this internal effect will do.

[Zwolf]

Has anyone else noticed improvements in the bitcrusher? I can’t tell if it’s placebo effect or something but I swear it sounds better these days. (I recently re-purchased a Rytm + have been listening to more lo-fi music in general). Last time I tested this thing it just sounded like grating digital noise. Now it sounds like an old-school sampler. I’m kinda wondering if I really need to find an OTO Biscuit now or if this internal effect will do.

I like the timbre of the effect ok, but I hate the way it has a set decay that you can’t control. If there were a way to shorten the decay of the static-y noise, I’d probably use it a fair bit. As is, I usually end up turning it off a few seconds after I try it out.

[tsutek]

Could the noise you’re hearing be quantization noise? If so, it’s just the smallest bits in the tail of your sound creating these artefacts. In that case, the regular amp env should do the trick

[Loco]

hi guys does anyone knows how to use bit crusher on SRC(not on SMPL)?

[avantronica]

impossible !

well, as a compromise you could re-sample the source and effect that sample

[Loco]

thanks for reply man . hope the will do it in the future . it really can be a cool feature