New Toneboosters plugin Bitjuggler

[fese]

Just noticed this, seems to be a remake of the TimeMachine from the trackessentials bundle


(edit: the image link to the original TB site didn't work reliably before, thanks to dangayle for notifying me and adding screenshots!)
GUI looks great, I’m generally a fan of Toneboosters, but I’m not sure i really need a LFO-modulated aliasing and quantization errors in my music

[dangayle]

I'm trying it out now, I think it's great, and far more than a remake of TimeMachine, which is pretty good plugin to begin with. I've seriously never seen a bit crusher with this many options. The next closest thing is TAL-DAC, which I think is far more subtle than this plugin and I don't prefer it. My current favorite is NI Bite, since it just does what I want, but with less options, and sounds great.

Goodhertz Lossy does the mp3 artifact thing pretty well, but this plugin seems to cover all of that ground as well (minus the reverb).





This is DEFINITELY a good buy, if you're into this sort of thing. The interface is really good, Toneboosters have really improved their newer designs. Not pure flat graphics, but not some cheap skeuomorphic design either.

[VariKusBrainZ]

You might like BitFun in the Melda free pack or the multiband version

https://www.meldaproduction.com/MBitFun

[Lotuz2019]

I'm trying it out now, I think it's great, and far more than a remake of TimeMachine, which is pretty good plugin to begin with. I've seriously never seen a bit crusher with this many options. The next closest thing is TAL-DAC, which I think is far more subtle than this plugin and I don't prefer it. My current favorite is NI Bite, since it just does what I want, but with less options, and sounds great.

Goodhertz Lossy does the mp3 artifact thing pretty well, but this plugin seems to cover all of that ground as well (minus the reverb).

This is DEFINITELY a good buy, if you're into this sort of thing. The interface is really good, Toneboosters have really improved their newer designs. Not pure flat graphics, but not some cheap skeuomorphic design either.

Before the release of TimeMachine v4, excuse me BitJuggler , this was my list of favourite bitcrushers that complement each other:

-Decimort 2
-TAL-DAC
-SP950

With TimeMachine v3 only slightly behind them, but I haven't used it in my projects.

Now there's BitJuggler. Indeed it does resemble TAL-DAC. Overall BitJuggler does more than TAL-DAC, but it doesn't completely replace it. It doesn't completely replace Decimort 2 and SP950 either.

If I didn't have those bitcrushers already, then BitJuggler would be my first choice. It's packed with features and it's competitively priced at the same time.

So for me the question is are the extra features of BitJuggler worth buying the plugin, especially because Jeroen went in a different direction with it than I hoped for. Finding this out is part of the fun for me, as I enjoy testing plugins as much as making music with them.

The iOS app seems , but I believe the plugin deserves more attention.

[crickey13]

I'm trying it out now, I think it's great, and far more than a remake of TimeMachine, which is pretty good plugin to begin with. I've seriously never seen a bit crusher with this many options. The next closest thing is TAL-DAC, which I think is far more subtle than this plugin and I don't prefer it. My current favorite is NI Bite, since it just does what I want, but with less options, and sounds great.

Goodhertz Lossy does the mp3 artifact thing pretty well, but this plugin seems to cover all of that ground as well (minus the reverb).

This is DEFINITELY a good buy, if you're into this sort of thing. The interface is really good, Toneboosters have really improved their newer designs. Not pure flat graphics, but not some cheap skeuomorphic design either.

Before the release of TimeMachine v4, excuse me BitJuggler , this was my list of favourite bitcrushers that complement each other:

-Decimort 2
-TAL-DAC
-SP950

With TimeMachine v3 only slightly behind them, but I haven't used it in my projects.

Now there's BitJuggler. Indeed it does resemble TAL-DAC. Overall BitJuggler does more than TAL-DAC, but it doesn't completely replace it. It doesn't completely replace Decimort 2 and SP950 either.

If I didn't have those bitcrushers already, then BitJuggler would be my first choice. It's packed with features and it's competitively priced at the same time.

So for me the question is are the extra features of BitJuggler worth buying the plugin, especially because Jeroen went in a different direction with it than I hoped for. Finding this out is part of the fun for me, as I enjoy testing plugins as much as making music with them.

The iOS app seems , but I believe the plugin deserves more attention.

Thank you for your thoughts, I have TAL DAC and Decimort as well, gonna get BitJuggler at some point.

[dangayle]

Decimort 2 is certainly good, I really like the sound of that. The only issue is that I like to automate the big knob, and in Ableton it always resets when I try to render, meaning it just quits and The automation lane deactivates. Make sure you’re rendering at the same resolution as the sample rate your project is set to, that seems to help.

[dangayle]

I just wrote this track using BitJuggler all over the place, on individual drum channels, on the drum buss, on synths, even on the master for giggles.

https://soundcloud.com/desynchrony/let/s-AzqEBzSuvOV

[dangayle]

You might like BitFun in the Melda free pack or the multiband version

https://www.meldaproduction.com/MBitFun

I always forget this one. I also have the multiband version. To be honest, I always forget to think Melda, even though they pretty much have everything.

[ygcmp]

I became interested in bitcrusher and tested Decimort 2, TAL-DAC, RX950, SP950, NI Bite.
They were all good and each had their own strengths, so I understood that it was famous and many people were looking for it.
Especially Decimort's sound was so good, but it took up too much CPU.
So while I was thinking, I saw a few people talking about Bitjuggler and I tried it.
Wow this has NI Bite's sound design, TAL-DAC's flexibility, Decimort's quality lol
The cpu usage is low and the price is low. Sad that people are less interested in this plug-in.

[Igro]

Yeap, top notch crusher/noiser with low CPU usage.

I was wondering if Decimort 2 has a bug, that makes it a CPU destroyer.