Audio Damage BigSeq2 - Manual (Page 13)

Finally, the PAN knob controls the perceived stereo position of the VCA’s output. Rotate the knob to the left
and the sound will move towards the left speaker; rotate it to the right and the sound with move towards the
right.
Bits
The Bits effect block is a multi-purpose digital distortion processor. BITS
creates the popular “lo-fi” sample-rate reduction and bit-crusher digital
effects we’ve all come to know and love despite having 24-bit audio
converters and 64-bit signal-processing math readily available to us.
BITS has three knobs. The first knob, RATE, controls a sample-rate reducer.
As you turn this knob up, the signal is resampled at a lower rate than your
host’s current sampling rate. If this knob is turned all the way anti-
clockwise, the resampling process has no effect on the signal. As you turn
the knob up, the signal is sampled at a lower rate. If you turn this knob all
the way clockwise, the signal is sampled at 1/100
th of your host’s sampling
frequency (e.g., 441Hz if you use the usual sampling frequency of
44100Hz).
The second knob, DEPTH, controls a bit-depth reduction or “bit-crushing”
process. If you leave the knob turned fully anti-clockwise, the signal is
passed with full resolution. (Like most host-based plug-ins, BigSeq2 uses
32 bits to represent signals internally, but your host software may use 16,
24, or 32 bits.) As you rotate the knob, the number of bits used to
represent the signal first drops to 16, and then decreases all the way to one
as you turn the knob fully clockwise.
The third knob, ERROR, is an Audio Damage original. It introduces errors in the bits used to represent the
signal. The knob controls how long the errors persist, and hence how much they damage the audio. If the
knob is rotated fully anti-clockwise, no errors are added to the signal. As you rotate the knob, progressively
more persistent errors are added to the signal, creating digital-sounding noise. The BITS and ERROR knobs
are somewhat complementary in that the effect of the ERROR function is less noticeable at high settings of
the BITS knob.