Free Bit Crusher Plugins

Krush

Krush is a free bit crusher VST, Audio Unit, AAX plugin developed by Tritik. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

Krush is a bitcrusher for Mac OS X and Windows, available in Audio Unit, VST and AAX formats.

With its bit crushing and downsampling algorithms, Krush is designed to combine the crispy taste of the digital realm with the warmth of its drive stage and analog modeled resonant filters.

A modulation section allows a user to modulate any parameter. The sound palette produced by Krush is intended to range from dirty digital effects to crunchy modulated colors, with all bit-crushing effects in between.

Key Features

Main Controls

. Crunchy drive stage
. Bit depth reduction
. Sample rate reduction
. Analog modeled resonant filters (low-pass and high-pass).

Modulation Section

. Free or tempo-synced modulation speed
. 4 modulation waveforms
. Modulation depth for every parameter.

Interface

. Fully resizable interface !
. Clean and intuitive
. Tooltips and preferences in english, french, portuguese or spanish.

Presets

. File based preset system
. Access through menu or browser
. Presets ‘freezer’ for safe recall
. Copy/paste current state using the system clipboard.

https://www.tritik.com

HY-Lofi2

HY-Lofi2 is a free bit crusher VST, VST3, Audio Unit plugin developed by HY-Plugins. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

bit quantizer + overdrive + filter.

Quantizer:
4 bit quatize modes available
Mode1 = normal mode
Mode2 = in this mode, quantize error appears at higher frequency
Mode3 = modify version of mode1
Mode4 = modify version of mode2
Quality = quantize quality
Bit Knob = bit depth value.

Drive:
Drive Knob = drive amount.

Filter:
HP = cutoff frequency of highpass
LP = cutoff frequency of lowpass.

Output:
Vol = output volume.

https://hy-plugins.com/

Elite Reducer 2

Elite Reducer 2 is a free bit crusher VST, Audio Unit plugin developed by Virtual Creations. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Elite Reducer 2 is a sample rate / bit rate VST reducer with two resonant low pass filters and a special logical values combination algorithm.

It features an automatic bank loader and a handy GUI which makes it easy to automate the reducer’s values. Elite Reducer is very useful to for adding a powerful distorted sound to beat constructions. It sounds also very good on acid basses and atmospheric sounds.

Digital computer lofi sounds can be created with reducer easily. Reducer as group master effect can be used as a filter.

Version 2 now comes with 3 interpolation algorithms, lp/hp filters, 2 bit reducers and improvements.

Changes in v2.2 beta:

Fixed default bank corruption error in 64-bit mode / OS X.

TODO: Fixed missing GUI update in 64-bit mode / OS X using some hosts like Renoise 2.81.

Changes in v2.1:

First OS X build.

Added VSTGUI 4.1 beta support.

Added Cocoa support.

Added 64-bit support in 32-bit processing mode.

Optimized anti-denormal algorithm.

Improved rate reducer.

Improved bit reducer.

Interpolation variants are now: Linear, B-Spline and Fake-Sin.

Various optimizations.

New much better default presets.

Minimum OS X version now: 10.5.

http://www.virtualcreations.de

Disto::Fx Free

Disto::Fx Free is a free bit crusher VST, Audio Unit plugin developed by DistoCore. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Disto:Fx Free (Dirty Sound Destructor) is a multi-fx with distortion/dynamic shaper/saturation/filter/ring modulator/phaser/EQ and Input-Output control units.
It is aimed at hard electronic music like hardcore, gabber, drum&bass and Dubstep,
but it also gives your guitar tracks and synthlines an interesting, crispy sound.

https://distocore.online/

Degrade

Degrade is a free bit crusher VST, Audio Unit plugin developed by mda. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Sample quality reduction – Adjust bit depth, sample rate, and non-linearity.

http://www.mda-vst.com/

Degrade-FX

Degrade-FX is a free bit crusher VST plugin developed by Phasic. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

DegradeFX is a Sample Rate Crusher / Fractional Bit Depth Crusher plug-in.

http://www.phasic.co.uk/

Danaides

Danaides is a free multi fx and glitch and delay and echo and pitch shifter and bit crusher VST, Audio Unit plugin developed by Inear Display. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Danaides is a sequenced sound mangler with a powerful modulation section.

It gives you the ability to route the input signal through a filter and three sound destruction effect processors : a “driller” that will loop and repitch very small slices of the signal, a “metalizer” delay and a samplerate reducer.

With the built-in effect and dry-wet sequencers, you can generate various tempo-synced effect phrases and modulate the overall depth of the effect.

Danaides includes a powerful LFO section with flexible routing and waveform morph.

Additional features include the ability to resize the plugin interface to fit your display (Windows and OS X only), share your presets between plugin formats and platforms, map your MIDI controller easily using the built-in MIDI learn system, trigger presets using MIDI program changes, as well as a TouchOSC layout to give you instant MIDI control of all the parameters.

Danaides comes loaded with a nice selection of presets from great sound designers and artists IVO IVANOV, ABSTRACT CATS and DAED.

Features :

3 sound mangling effects : “driller”, “metalizer” and “reducer”.

1 pre-filter with mode morph (Lowpass, Bandpass, Highpass).

effect selection sequencer.

dry-wet sequencer.

2 Morph LFOs with 2 sub-LFOs each.

host tempo sync for the LFOs.

modulation inputs for each effect/filter parameters.

sequence randomizers.

global randomizer.

MIDI learn.

MIDI program change support.

MIDI layout for TouchOSC on IPad.

Vector based resizable User Interface (resizing only on Windows and OS X).

Cross-platform presets.

61 factory presets.

Lifetime free updates for registered customers.

https://ineardisplay.com

Crush 2

Crush 2 is a free bit crusher VST3, Audio Unit plugin developed by Audec. Compatible OS(s): Windows 64b, macOS.

Crush is a bit crusher effect that degrades the bit depth and sample rate continuously.

Price: Free.

http://audec-music.com/

Chrissy

Chrissy is a free glitch and bit crusher VST plugin developed by Zen Soundcheck Audio. Compatible OS(s): Windows.

Chrissy is a free tool for lo-fi/sonic mayhem. Although it is primarily designed to be used on the human voice, it can deliver interesting results in other applications such as (electric) guitar, synth-drones or beats.

http://www.zensoundcheck.com/audio/

BitTest

BitTest is a free bit crusher VST plugin developed by Shuriken. Compatible OS(s): Windows, macOS.

BitTest is a little bitcrusher plug-in. It converts your data to 8 bits, then you can turn the bits off (the top row) or invert them (the bottom row) individually. That is you can individually flip and invert the bits.

http://www.shuriken.se/