Creative Effects
BITRUPTURE
Deterministic digital corruption: every destructive decision is reproducible.
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- AU (macOS)
- VST3
- AAX
- macOS Universal
- Windows 64-bit
- v1.0.0
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: every engine is keyed to the song's position, so a loop repeats and a locate lands where it should. 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-digit seed or a phrase that hashes to it. Switch Sync to FREE and it rolls new corruption every time playback starts instead.
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.
GATE · rhythm, module by module
A sixteen-step, tempo-locked gate each module opts into with its own switch. It gates that module's wet amount rather than the audio, so PACKET can stutter on sixteenths while SPECTRA runs on underneath.
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
BitruptureTests, BitrupturePluginTests, README and release audit · 48 kHz · 128-sample blocks · stereo
- Engine suite
- 172 tests · 532,005 assertions
- Plugin suite
- 53 tests · 706,114 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 Morph
- Dissolves the corruption towards a second seed's one decision at a time, instead of crossfading two engines.
- Colour
- Puts back the partials the other modules take away: asymmetric saturation between two tilts, gain-compensated, exactly bypassed at zero.
- Stereo Link
- How many corruption decisions the two channels share. In between is a per-decision correlation, not a blur of two behaviours.
- Input · Width · Mix · Output
- Level in, the stereo image after the chain, the blend against the delay-matched dry, and level out.
Identity
- Seed
- Six digits, typed or stepped with the arrows, and the whole basis of reproducibility. GENERATE jumps to a new one.
- Seed phrase
- Type a word instead and it hashes to a seed: the same word gives the same corruption on any machine, in this version and later ones.
- PERSONALITY
- CLEAN FAILURE, UNSTABLE, MECHANICAL, CHAOTIC, MEMORY LOSS, TRANSMISSION, ARCHIVAL, ALIEN. They shape probability distributions rather than overwriting your patch.
The chain
- CHAIN
- DECODE, PACKET, SPECTRA, BUFFER and UPLINK, each with its own ON and GATE switch. Drag to reorder; the switches follow the names.
- Module panel
- The selected module's own controls, for example PACKET's Concealment, Loss, Burst, Frame, Recovery, Scatter and Packet Mix.
- DAMAGE MAP
- The 128 × 32 map SPECTRA reads, drawn by hand or with CLEAR, FILL, SMOOTH, INVERT, MIRROR and RANDOM.
- GATE
- Rate, depth, envelope and sixteen steps, applied to each module whose GATE switch is on.
Arrangement
- MOTION
- Four lanes × sixteen steps, each with Destination, Rate, Depth, Phase, Slew, Prob and a bipolar switch. Seekable with the transport.
- MACROS
- Four, layered as offsets over your settings.
- SCENES
- Eight, A to H, with CAPTURE. A scene holds parameters and patch together: seed, map, lanes and module order as well as the knobs.
- RANDOM
- SMART RANDOMIZE: pick a flavour and ROLL. The arrows walk back and forward through the last twenty rolls, separately from undo.
- Locks
- Right-click any dial, switch or menu to lock it through a roll. CHAIN, MAP, MOTION and SEED keep the module order, the damage map, the lanes and the seed.
- UNDO · REDO
- Step back and forward through your edits.
Engine
- QUALITY
- The latency mode: Zero, Live, Balanced or Studio. Fixed while a session runs, so the host never has to recompensate.
- ADVANCED · ENGINE
- Event Grid, Sync (SYNC repeats exactly; FREE rolls afresh each time playback starts), Oversampling, and the latency mode.
- Power
- Bypass, and the host's own bypass too. The chain keeps running behind a crossfade, so the reported latency does not move.
Technical details
- Formats, macOS
- AU · VST3 · AAX
- Formats, Windows
- VST3 · AAX
- Operating system
- macOS 10.15 or later · Windows 10 or later, 64-bit
- Architecture, macOS
- Universal: Apple Silicon and Intel
- Architecture, Windows
- 64-bit
- Plugin code
- Btrp
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Sample rates
- 44.1 – 192 kHz
- Latency
- Fixed by QUALITY and reported once: 0 samples in Zero (SPECTRA unavailable), 256 in Live, 1,024 in Balanced (the default), 4,096 in Studio. Bypassing or reordering modules does not change it.
- CPU
- 3.08 % of one core on the heaviest realistic patch
- Factory presets
- 65
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.
- Where repeatability stops, as the design notes record it: a locate past a tempo change re-anchors at the current tempo; a frozen spectrum holds what it captured and no locate can recreate it; and the BUFFER presets Reverse Fills, Sixteenth Chop and Ratchet repeat to between −182 and −196 dB on some passes rather than exactly.
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