Hold It. Crush It.
Let Go and It's Clean.
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Hold Engage and it falls apart.
Hold Engage and the signal gets crushed, let go and it's clean again, with a 10 ms crossfade either way so nothing clicks. Low Res reduces the sample rate and the bit depth, and two big readouts show exactly how low-res it is, Bits in whole numbers and Rate in kHz.
Rate is a sample-and-hold from 500 Hz up to 48 kHz, and it's deliberately aliased, no oversampling, that's the sound. Bits runs from 1 to 16 and quantizes to exactly that many bits, with a Dither switch that adds a little triangular noise before the quantizer. Tone is a low-pass after the crusher, from 500 Hz to 20 kHz, and at 20 kHz it's off.
Great for drums, bass, vocals, whole mixes and more, grab it for a four bar fill or leave it engaged as a color. Mix blends against the dry signal and Output trims after.
Hold It Down. Hear It Fall Apart.
The demo runs the full plugin, every control and every preset. Hold Engage over a drum loop and pull Bits and Rate down while you listen.
Try Low Res FreeNo account required - we send the link to your email. Silences briefly every 30 seconds in demo mode.
Bits and Rate
Bits sets how many levels the signal is quantized to, 16 is clean and 1 is about as broken as audio gets. Rate sets how often the signal is sampled, and everything in between is the sound of old samplers, game consoles and cheap converters. Both sit next to a digital readout, so you can dial in a number and come back to it.
Tone, Mix and Output
Tone sits after the crusher, so you can keep the grit and take the harshest top end off. Mix blends the crushed signal against the dry for parallel crushing, and Output trims the result by plus or minus 12 dB. Power Off is a bit-exact bypass and there is no latency at any setting.
Watch It Work
The Bits and Rate readouts show the exact settings in the accent color. Two LED strips show the left and right input level, and the stereo VU reads the output level.
Color and Presets
The Color knob changes the whole faceplate to any hue, fluorescent green by default, and it's a preference saved on your machine, not part of a preset or a session. Power Off turns the faceplate dark and passes the audio through untouched.
Ten factory presets plus Default are starting points, Lo-Fi Radio, Old Sampler, 8-Bit Console, Crushed Drums, Telephone, Soft Fuzz, Wide Open, Gritty Hats, Broken Speaker and Dust, and A/B, Save, Save As, Copy, Delete, Import and Export handle your own. The window resizes and remembers its size.
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VST3 (64-bit) - Windows, macOS, Linux
AU (64-bit) - macOS only
Windows 10 / 11
macOS 11 Big Sur or later (Apple Silicon + Intel)
Linux - Ubuntu 22.04+ or equivalent
Any VST3-compatible host: Reaper, Cubase, Studio One, Ableton Live, FL Studio, Bitwig Studio, Nuendo, and more
AU (macOS): Logic Pro, GarageBand, MainStage
None.
Perpetual, single user
3 simultaneous activations
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Current version: 1.0.0
SHA-256 (mmedia-low-res-v1.0.0.zip): 0b3a20a8847fcd8d6163c80318ee410f1410a664c3ac7102e8a10217124ba2db
Tested on Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, Debian 12, Fedora 40. Requires one system library for license verification:
sudo apt install libsodium23 # Ubuntu / Debian sudo dnf install libsodium # Fedora / RHEL sudo pacman -S libsodium # Arch
VST3 only. Confirmed working in REAPER and Bitwig.
Perpetual license - pay once, own it forever.
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