Electronic music producers (especially Hip-Hop) have long known that classic samplers (such as early Akai and E-MU units) had their own character and sound: they added "grit" and "color" to the samples and loops they played back, making them sound "fat" and sit well in a mix. This sound coloration was due to the encoding techniques, lower sampling rates and bit depths, and conversion circuits used by these early samplers. Decimort recreates this coloration and adds that vintage sample magic to any loop, bassline, or sound played through it! Beyond vintage sampler emulation, it is also the perfect bitcrusher with filter, capable of extreme settings for spectacular results.

The highest quality low-quality effect you can buy

While this slogan may seem like an oxymoron on the surface, let us explain: the Decimort effects unit (available as part of D16's SilverLine plugin collection) is a first-class bitcrusher and sample rate reducer with some very unconventional features. Advanced signal processing algorithms within Decimort simulate the complex behavior of the entire sampling path found in every AD/DA converter, and version 2 brings much greater control over the process!

Decimort has no internal aliasing; in fact, the only aliasing present is the emulated aliasing of the classic samplers we modeled when creating it. Unwanted artifacts are completely absent from the processed signal: only desirable and modeled ones remain.

More control than any other effect of its kind

Decimort is not just another bitcrusher with only bit resolution and sample rate to modify; in fact, it provides much more advanced features than you might have expected from an effect of this kind, all implemented with astonishing quality:

• Two optional anti-aliasing filters : a very pronounced low-pass prefilter (approximate filter) along with the resampling frequency that removes all harmonic content above it, ensuring that no aliases appear below this frequency in the spectrum. An additional postfilter (image filter), also synchronized with the resampler, provides control over the amount of aliased images that appear above the resampling frequency when enabled.
• Adjustable jitter : an unprecedented feature in the world of bitcrushing that introduces random short-period fluctuations in the resampling frequency, making the process even more interesting from a sonic standpoint by producing a type of harmonic distortion you have probably never heard in this context.
• Two quantization methods - Two quantization methods available; the mid-raiser and mid-tread decimation algorithms, each characterized by a drastically different dynamic response.
• Controllable interpolation: interpolation was conceptually developed as a means to reduce audible quantization errors by masking the harmonic distortions they cause. We added controllable interpolation to increase the number of ways you can (mis)treat the sound.

All this adds up to a very powerful and musical tool that is not just another creativity-releasing element for your arsenal, but also gives you the ability to emulate classic sampling units in the box; now with even greater precision through access to a variety of parameters not previously available in effects of this kind!

Two in one

Decimort is also equipped with analog-style filters with adjustable resonance that allow you to further sculpt the signal. These can be used to smooth the sound or remove sonic artifacts introduced into the signal path by the modeling process to your liking.

Key features

• Ultra-precise resampling algorithm (ADC emulation, no harmonics above 22 kHz)
• Approximate (pre)filter and image (post)filter, both conjugated with the resampler
• Adjustable phase fluctuation
• Quantization with controlled dithering
• Two quantization methods (mid-raiser, mid-tread)
• Analog-style filters with adjustable resonance and cutoff
• Label-based preset browser
• Two alternative GUI sizes
• MIDI learn functionality throughout
• 64-bit internal processing
• No unwanted harmonic distortion at the output

System requirements

Windows

• Windows 7 - 10  (32 or 64-bit)
• CPU: 2.0 GHz single-core SSE (2.1 GHz multi-core SSE recommended)
• RAM: 8 GB (16 GB recommended)
• Plugin formats: VST2, VST3, AAX

Mac

• macOS 10.9 - macOS 12 Monterey  (64-bit only)
• CPU: Intel 1.8 GHz/Apple M1 (Intel 2.4 GHz/Apple M1 recommended)
• RAM: 8 GB (16 GB recommended)
• Plugin formats: VST2, VST3, AU, AAX

Please note:  this  is not a standalone program: a host application (DAW) is required to use it.