Re: emulating a cheap sampling toy

[Michael Firman <maf@mlswebworks.com>]

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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