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sonicsnap
Published on 12/06/13 at 09:33
Value For Money :
Correct
Trouble-free installation and authorization very "user friendly".
Decimort's goal is to degrade the sound so as artistic as possible.
We first level preamp, which does not increase the volume, but the rate of distortion. The following settings can be made separately for each stereo channel, but can also apply settings only "right way" to both channels (button "Link Params"). We start with the "Decimator" wherein conventionally can reduce the number of bits and the sampling frequency. It also has a button that activates the low-pass filter anti-aliasing to eliminate the phenomenon of "sampling reflection." Part II: the filter section. You can apply a filter to choose: Low-pass, band-pass, high-pass or band-reject, with adjustable cutoff and resonance. It can decide if this occurs before or after filtering the "decimator". Finally, it's all set to "dry / wet" and output volume. All parameters are controllable via MIDI with "MIDI Learn".
You get 42 factory presets and a small 20-page manual in French, which is especially useful for how to save our presets.
SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE
Decimort has always worked very well on my Mac Pro (10.6.8 masochists) with Digital Performer. It consumes little CPU resources.
OVERALL OPINION
Before discovering this plug-in, there are three and a half years, I did not like at all "bit crushers." But Decimort convinced me that we could get something interesting with this type of effect, and it is really the only of its kind that has been through my ears. In fact, I generally used in small doses eg "trip-hopiser" a loop of drums. I made a preset that suits many situations: a bit of preamp / 12 bit / 22 kHz / no anti-alias low pass filter and 10 KHz. It can work on all kinds of sounds. But we can also go further and try special effects (such as the effect "phone" on the voice, for example.) In fact, Decimort actually provides sound degraded but pleasantly, where most competitors offer too purely numerical result. D16 still a very good effect for a very reasonable price. I would do this choice!
Decimort's goal is to degrade the sound so as artistic as possible.
We first level preamp, which does not increase the volume, but the rate of distortion. The following settings can be made separately for each stereo channel, but can also apply settings only "right way" to both channels (button "Link Params"). We start with the "Decimator" wherein conventionally can reduce the number of bits and the sampling frequency. It also has a button that activates the low-pass filter anti-aliasing to eliminate the phenomenon of "sampling reflection." Part II: the filter section. You can apply a filter to choose: Low-pass, band-pass, high-pass or band-reject, with adjustable cutoff and resonance. It can decide if this occurs before or after filtering the "decimator". Finally, it's all set to "dry / wet" and output volume. All parameters are controllable via MIDI with "MIDI Learn".
You get 42 factory presets and a small 20-page manual in French, which is especially useful for how to save our presets.
SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE
Decimort has always worked very well on my Mac Pro (10.6.8 masochists) with Digital Performer. It consumes little CPU resources.
OVERALL OPINION
Before discovering this plug-in, there are three and a half years, I did not like at all "bit crushers." But Decimort convinced me that we could get something interesting with this type of effect, and it is really the only of its kind that has been through my ears. In fact, I generally used in small doses eg "trip-hopiser" a loop of drums. I made a preset that suits many situations: a bit of preamp / 12 bit / 22 kHz / no anti-alias low pass filter and 10 KHz. It can work on all kinds of sounds. But we can also go further and try special effects (such as the effect "phone" on the voice, for example.) In fact, Decimort actually provides sound degraded but pleasantly, where most competitors offer too purely numerical result. D16 still a very good effect for a very reasonable price. I would do this choice!