wire to the ear » Decimort http://www.wiretotheear.com Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:46:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Sound like you have an old sampler with Decimort. http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/10/10/sound-like-you-have-an-old-sampler-with-decimort/ http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/10/10/sound-like-you-have-an-old-sampler-with-decimort/#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:47:32 +0000 Oliver Chesler http://www.wiretotheear.com/?p=1304

Vintage color is the special sauce audio producers crave when producing. We want the sound of Mic pres from the 70s, spring reverbs and even that classic sampler sound. Decimort is a new plug-in from the ever impressive Polish software freaks D16. There are a host of bit crushers on the market but Decimort specializes in recreating the effect of old EMU Emulators and Ensoniq samplers.

“Electronic music producers (especially in Hip-Hop) have always been aware that classic samplers (such as early Akai and EMU units) had a character and sound of their own. They added a “grit” and “colour” to the samples and loops they played back which made them sound “Fat” and sit well in a mix. This sound colouration was due to the encoding techniques, lower sample rates, lower bit rate and conversion circuits which these early samplers used. Decimort recreates this colouration and adds the vintage sampler magic to any loop, bass line or sound played through it. It also acts as the perfect bit crusher with filter.” – D16.pl

You can hear some very good Decimort samples in the context of full songs on the D16 site: click here However, below I recorded and posted some straight forward clips. Each clip starts with the dry sound then I click on Decimort:

A choir sequence from the basic Reason soundbank. I chose the choir samples because you could find very similar samples in The Fairlight CMI:

Download audio file (D16_Decimort-Choir.mp3)

A computerized vocal which I think shows off Decimort quiet nicely:

Download audio file (D16_Decimort-Vocal.mp3)

A simple Roland TR-808 loop through some Decimort presets:

Download audio file (D16_Decimort-TR-808.mp3)

One thing I really like about Decimort is that is has a wet/dry knob, something I wish all plug-ins had! Also, automating the Frequency in Decimort sounds very potent. Overall it’s a nice plug-in that I could see using many instances of. I like to try using filters and bit-crusher before I’ll grab an eq.

Decimort is Mac/PC AU/Vst for 35€. Demo available: click here

photo credit: Johnrpenner

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