Aberrant DSP Digitalis serves as a specialized digital degradation and multi-effect tool designed to navigate the chaotic textures of the digital wasteland. This plugin functions as a creative vehicle for producers seeking to inject authentic glitch effects and data corruption into their audio projects, simulating everything from bad converters to poor internet connections. By offering a unique modular interface, it allows users to transform pristine recordings into character-rich, lo-fi masterpieces.
Key Features
- Spectral Filtering PaintBox: Allows users to draw custom patterns or import images (JPG/PNG) to filter audio content directly in the Data window, creating dynamic spectral modulations.
- Modular Window System: Features three rearrangeable processing sections—Data, Corruption, and Time—enabling fully customizable signal flow for complex audio destruction chains.
- Advanced Sequencing: Includes a 16-step, tempo-synced sequencer with four assignable slots, permitting intricate rhythmic modulation of almost any parameter within the plugin.
- Telecommunications Section: Simulates lossy audio artifacts reminiscent of low-bitrate MP3s and interrupted digital streams, perfect for achieving a specific retro-digital aesthetic.
- Corruption Engine: distinctive Bitrot, Decimate, and Dynamic Bitcrushing modules work together to emulate the sonic characteristics of failing digital media and hardware errors.
- AI Assistant Jon: A built-in interactive guide (appearing as a cat) that helps users navigate the interface and explains various functions directly within the plugin window.
Use Cases
This software is ideal for electronic music producers and sound designers working in genres like IDM, Hyperpop, and Lo-Fi who need to add controlled chaos to drums, synths, or vocals. It also excels in post-production scenarios where creating realistic digital interference or "broken tech" soundscapes is required for film and game audio.
With its highly visual approach to sound manipulation and affordable pricing, Digitalis stands out as a uniquely inspiring tool for anyone looking to break their audio in musically useful ways.
Version 1.1 — July 2022
Added:
- Saving of custom PaintBox patterns.
- JPG and PNG image import for PaintBox patterns (automatically converted to black and white).
- Longer rhythms (8 bars, 4 bars, 2 bars) for Tempo Synced PaintBox Rate control.
- Zero-latency operation mode (active when Data window is bypassed).
Fixed:
- UI desynchronization in DAWs like Ableton Live and Bitwig.
- Latency compensation issues when the plugin is bypassed.
- Visual update issues for automated controls.
- macOS installer issue preventing User preset saving.
