Mortamer

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About:

Mortamer is a Lo-Fi plug-in from Gooey Audio designed to add grit, character, and movement to your sound.

It features DC offset, bit reduction, sample-rate aliasing, modulation, envelope followers, low-frequency oscillators, formant filters, and a wide selection of presets. Mortamer gives you plenty of ways to layer, mix, and sculpt that unmistakable Lo-Fi crumble.

The preset library ranges from subtle dithered drones to metallic mouth-like formant vowels, offering both delicate texture and wild sonic transformations.

Use Mortamer to crush drums, modulate synths, and add depth and texture to your tracks. One of our favorite tricks is turning up the dither, lowering the sample rate, and modulating the filters to create that classic — and delightfully irritating — waaaaah.

Features:

• Samplerate & Bit Reduction.
• Low-Frequency-Oscillation.
• Classic LP/HP Filtering — with extra resonant peaks.
• Dithering, which is proportional to the input amplitude.
• Three modes for aliased image filtering.
• Ah, OoOo, E, & Ya Formant Filtering.

Background:

Mortamer was inspired by big dreams and small calculations. It's a homage to the craft of building tools that are not only functional, but also willing to embrace imperfection.

What once felt like major technical hurdles—integrating low-frequency oscillators into control units, for example—has long since become a thing of the past. And problems that once seemed monumental, like reducing image aliasing without relying on traditional lowpass filtering, eventually revealed themselves with alternative solutions.

Unlike many decimator plug-ins, Gooey's Mortamer doesn't depend on pre- and post-filters to tame aliasing artifacts. Instead, it uses several very short delays mixed together and averaged—without feedback— which acts as a mock filter to dull the harshest aliased frequencies while preserving the character of the effect.

Of course, the more traditional aliasing algorithms are included for those who want the classic digital grit: the beeps, the bops, the crunchy edges.

And for those who want to push it, Mortamer includes a pseudo ring-modulator designed to exaggerate those wonderfully abrasive, fax-machine-like tones.

Gooey offers a 14-day money-back guarantee and free demos, so you can try before you buy.

Thanks for the support -- Gooey.