Re: emulating a cheap sampling toy

["Timothy Mungenast" <mungenast@earthlink.net>]

Thanks for the lead. I tried the bit reduction on my Bitrman and it was the
only boring part of that fine little FX box... when turning up that
parameter, it went from normal directly to "kak..kak...kkkkk" without that
great middle ground that I lust after. Alex had a great idea about
combining *competent* bit reduction with a "telephone" bandpass. As soon as
I get a multiFX worthy of the name, I'll give it a shot.
~Tim 


> [Original Message]
> From: Michael Firman <maf@mlswebworks.com>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Date: 1/27/2005 1:21:02 PM
> Subject: Re: emulating a cheap sampling toy
>
>
> I think there are several decimator (they drop bits)  plug-ins that can 
> approach this.
> I'd have to check but I thought that the Pluggo set had one.
> As far as hardware is concerned, although I haven't tried it, from the 
> descriptions it
> sounds like the Frostwave Sonic Alienator might do it.
>
> On Jan 27, 2005, at 11:57 AM, mungenast@earthlink.net wrote:
>
> > Howdy, Noisemakers!
> > The other day my daughter was recording herself (and snippets of TV 
> > audio) with her little lo-res hand-held sampling toy, which allows her 
> > to record about 4 seconds of whatever the built-in mic can pick up and 
> > then play it back in charmingly mangled low fidelity. Part of this 
> > must be the low resolution of the toy-grade digital circuitry, and a 
> > some of it may be from the 2-inch speaker (and the not-exactly-Class-A 
> > amplifier circuit).
> > The question is this:
> > Is there anything on the market that can cop the sound of a toy 
> > sampler? Anything that can sonically degrade our instruments in a 
> > similar way? It's an entertaining texture and I am beginning to hunger 
> > for it (bwa-ha-ha-ha-hahaaa!!)
> > ~Tim Mungenast
> > www.cdbaby.com/mungenast
> > www.mungenast.com
> >
> >
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