Bit Maestro 4+
Unique AUv3 Bitcrusher
David Blake
Designed for iPad
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- £4.99
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Description
Bit Maestro is an AUv3 bit crusher that goes beyond regular bit rate reduction, allowing you to affect and manipulate your sound at the individual bit level. Taking inspiration from the legendary ‘OTO Biscuit’ it enables you to selectively mute or invert individual bits in your audio signal. As it does this it creates distortions in your waveform, introducing a wide range of harmonics. Bit Maestro pushes this concept even further, allowing you for the first time to even rearrange the order in which the bits are evaluated, reassigning their value and giving rise to waveform distortions not previously seen in any distortion module.
This sound can be further enhanced in a number of ways.
- Three filters are available (low pass, low shelf, high shelf) which can be used to tame or enhance the aggressiveness of the sound.
- A delay line to inject a different groove into a bar or provide a basis for interesting mod effects.
- A modulation panel to continually evolve your sound and introduce further aliasing effects.
The end result is a plugin that can introduce huge depth and power to your sound. One that offers you the nuanced control to design your perfect digital distortion, ranging from subtle warbling to huge crushing sounds that can transform any drum or bass line.
Supports:
- AUv3
- MIDI control
- Inter-app Audio
- Audiobus
What’s New
Version 1.1.1
Version 1.1 - MIDI Update
- Exposed AU Parameters to hosts
- Added 'Music Effect' Audio Unit. Use this Audio Unit when you want to send MIDI messages. Assign MIDI CC/Notes to various controls by toggling the MIDI icon in the top right.
- Added optional gain limiter (can enable in this the settings menu)
- Added way to overlay the header menu (with presets/midi/settings options) when the view is in its most compact form.
- Made filter controls adjustable when filter is off
- Improved compatibility with Cubasis automation
- Added 5 new presets
- Tweaked app icon
- Fixed various graphics issues
v1.1.1
- Fixed bit board help menu
Ratings and Reviews
Great update
With the opening of the parameters in AUM, this is now my go to fx. I probably use it much more subtly than most, but it does that just as well as over the top.
Brings a little life to some over clean digital sounds - like the DX7 was super digital, but never clean as its output was always a little dirty.
The ability to affect parameters by sending LFOs etc at it is how I like to get creative. Making the dirt rise along the timeline of the sound or playing with the onboard filter in creative ways - great update and well deserving of five stars for a receptive developer. I wish you all the best in these troubled times.
Developer Response ,
Many thanks! Hope it makes lockdown a little easier to bare 💪🏻
Crush My Bits!
I’ve tried a few Apps that do similar things to this one, but none of them have quite so much scope as this one and therefore this App is the best in terms of achieving some truly musical noise. That said, it can also take you from a subtle blend of digital distortion to absolute noisy insanity and everything inbetween.
Give me a bit
Great - bit crushing. It’s all there. Smooth, crunchy, super smooth, super crunchy and everything in between.. and inside out.
Developer Response ,
Not too oily, not too dry!
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Information
- Provider
- David Blake
- Size
- 26 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2020 David Blake
- Price
- £4.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.