From the manufacturer:
Meris Ottobit 500-Series Bitcrusher
Audio In >> Video Game Out
Say 'Hello' to the Meris Ottobit 500-Series Bitcrusher – No quarters needed.
Crush bits, de-res and sonic destroy. Beep Boop Boop Boop Beep! Conceived as an “Audio In >> Video Game Out” unit, the Ottobit enables you to transform your audio through a dynamic maze of textures, synth elements and bit crushing and is designed to give musicians and sound designers tools to sculpt any source into audio reminiscent of early 8 and 16-Bit video game soundtracks.
Ottobit allows you to create totally unique sounds using its sample rate decimation and bit reduction circuitry, while giving you power over the video game soundscape with a host of Ring Mod effects, Envelopes & LFO Filters.
• Variable Sample Rate and Bit Crushing
• Triggered Stutter Effects
• Tap Tempo for triggered envelopes & LFO modifiers
• Premium and hi-end analog signal path
• Designed and Built in Los Angeles, California USA
Along with bit reduction (right down to 1-Bit) and sample rate decimation, Ottobit offers ring modulation, envelopes and LFO Modifiers and tap tempo control to trigger the envelopes and is a powerful creative tool for electronic musicians and producers. It offers a unique collection of processing elements, giving you absolute control over interesting textures, sweeping sample rate changes, tremolos, vibratos, vintage octavers and primal pitch shifting, all inspired by Kubrick's use of the Information Rate Changer.
Made in California with a premium analogue signal path and 24-Bit AD/DA with 32-Bit floating-point DSP, Ottobit will smash, crush and decimate your signal opening up a whole universe of aural possibilities. Its design is unique, granting you the power to make any sound source sound like those video games soundtracks so evocative of the 80s.
Specifications:
- Sample Rate: Decimate sample rate
- Bit Reduction: Variable bit reduction down to 1-Bit
- Levels: User controlled gain and mix
- Ring Mod: Pitch track enabled ring modulator
- Tap Tempo: Tap tempo controlled triggered envelopes & LFO modifiers
- Waveforms: Selectable LFO and Ring Mod Waveshapes – from sine and triangle to square
- Frequency Modulation: Parallel blendable Ring Mod AM/FM Modulation
- Signal path: Premium analog signal path and 24-Bit AD/DA
- DSP: 32-Bit floating point DSP
- Bypass: 100% Analog bypass
- Power consumption: <100mA total power consumption
