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Bitcrusher

Bitcrusher is a common and simple distortion technique to dirty up your pristine digitial signal.

Bits controls the number of bits to quantize the signal amplitude. Lower numbers result in more distortion. Values greater than 12 result in subtle to undetectable results.

Downsample controls the temporal decimation factor for the signal. Here, higher numbers produce more distortion.

Gain multiplies the incoming signal by this value prior to distortion.

The Example

Here we use Euclid to generate repeating (forever) pattern to produce some audio via the Wurley instrument. The CCGenerator node sweeps through a range of values for Downsample between 1 and 24. You can easily modify this example to explore the effect of Bits.