If you’re looking for a creative signal processing effect, the Crush Pack, by Native Instruments, is a must in your music production effects library. With three different effect plugins in one same pack, you can get some serious creative effects that are a modern twist to iconic ones. For example, Bite, Dirt, and Freak are the names of the three of them. These are timeless and sophisticated and have a dynamic ring modulation sound with a sci-fi touch. By processing sound out of these three great effect plugins you’ll get futuristic timbres, distortions, transitions, and bit crushing goodness.
Crush Pack: the Effects
Firstly, Bite is a precision bit crushing effect that recreates iconic sonic imperfections from the day hip-hop emerged and the golden era of dance music. It has a wide sonic palate and an authentic organic crunch the resembles the 80s. Moreover, it has an auto input/output compensation to get hold of chaos. Specifically, this generates an interesting sound at low sample rates.
Secondly, sound designers carefully crafter Dirt. This effect gives you the ability to carefully take control of distortion thanks to its flexible signal routing and blending. Furthermore, you can calibrate its controls to shape subtle tones and add presence to synths, drums, guitars, and more. One of the main characteristics of this effect is an elegant brad spectrum distortion. Also, it has a particular wave folding that allows deep dynamic timbres.
Thirdly, Freak includes three modulations that offer radio lo-fi effects and the ability to sidechain alongside classic AM and frequency shifting techniques. With this effect, you can create scary vocals, metal timbres, and a vast universe of inharmonic content. For instance, the radio mode offers vintage broadcast like sounds and transmissions, sort of alien-like. Similarly, with its stereo modulation feature you can generate effective percussion.
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