Creative Effects
BITRUPTURE
Deterministic digital corruption — every destructive decision is reproducible.
- Formats
- VST3 · AU · Standalone
- Operating system
- macOS · Universal
- Version
- v0.1.0
What it does
Chaos you can recall.
Randomness is a compositional system, not an implementation shortcut. Every destructive decision BITRUPTURE makes — every dropped packet, buffer stutter, frozen spectral band, failing uplink — is a pure function of a visible seed and the host's musical position.
Play bar 17 from the top, from the middle, in a loop, or in an offline bounce, and it corrupts identically. That turns extreme glitch processing from something you have to commit to tape before it escapes into something you can arrange, mix, recall six months later, and hand to a collaborator as a six-character phrase.
Modulation is an offset layer, never a write. Damage, the sequencer lanes and the macros add to what you set rather than moving your controls, so nothing fights host automation or the undo history.
Key features
DECODE — reconstruction failure
Wrong interpolation kernel, wrong clock, insufficient resolution.
PACKET — transmission loss
A Gilbert–Elliott burst chain driving real packet-loss concealment.
SPECTRA — codec collapse
A drawable 128 × 32 Damage Map over a windowed overlap-add STFT.
BUFFER — a sampler mis-reading itself
Repeats, reversals, skips and tape-stops, on the grid.
UPLINK — a cheap, congested link
Restricted bandwidth, companding, residue and instability.
MOTION — the performance layer
Four lanes of sixteen steps plus four macros, all seekable — so the sequencer obeys the transport rather than free-running against it.
The interface
Audio
Audio demos for BITRUPTURE are not published yet.
We would rather show you nothing than show you a demo that was not recorded through this plugin.
Measured
Engine and plugin suites · 48 kHz · 128-sample blocks · stereo
- Engine suite
- 157 tests · 531,707 assertions
- Plugin suite
- 42 tests · 698,620 assertions
- pluginval, strictness 10
- VST3 and AU both pass
- CPU, heaviest realistic patch
- 3.08 % of one core
- Sample rates
- 44.1 – 192 kHz, blocks 1 – 2048, all finite
- Chain orders tested
- all 120, identical latency under each
- auval
- succeeds
Figures are produced by this plugin’s own test suite and benchmark, on the hardware and sample rate named above. They are not estimates.
Controls
Performance
- DAMAGE
- How hard.
- DENSITY
- How often.
- MUTATION
- How far it may deviate.
- Seed
- Visible, and the whole basis of reproducibility. Six characters.
- Personality
- Eight behavioural presets that shape probability distributions rather than overwriting your patch.
Arrangement
- MOTION lanes
- Four lanes × sixteen steps, seekable with the transport.
- Macros
- Four, layered as offsets over your settings.
- Scenes
- Eight, with CAPTURE.
- Parameter locks
- Hold a control while SMART RANDOMIZE moves everything else.
Technical details
- Formats
- VST3 · AU · Standalone
- Operating system
- macOS 10.13 or later
- Architecture
- Universal — Apple Silicon and Intel
- Plugin code
- Btrp
- Version
- 0.1.0
- Sample rates
- 44.1 – 192 kHz
- CPU
- 3.08 % of one core on the heaviest realistic patch
- Factory presets
- 56
Across eleven categories, exposed as host programs.
Worth knowing
- No mode, preset or claim in this product reproduces or emulates any specific proprietary codec. μ-law companding is a published ITU standard and is implemented honestly; everything else is original.
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