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"If you like bit-reduction distortion this unit is tops,. You can flip bits on and off via a MIDI sequencer if you are too lazy to push the buttons. Actually nearly all parameters are MIDI controllable.
OTO Machines’ BISCUIT is an 8-bit effect processing hardware from a boutique design firm in Paris. The essential effect is all 8-bit: using 8-bit converters and processing, you can add crunchy, digital waveshaping, delay, pitch shift, and step filter effects. But because those processes produce distortion and aliasing, BISCUIT combines its 8-bit effects with an analog resonant filter. (It’s switchable, so if you want to retain all the artifacts, you can – but you also have a filter at the ready.)
The BISCUIT is also fully MIDI-enabled: every control sends MIDI, and every function receives MIDI CC. Critical to its step-sequenced and delay functions, BISCUIT receives MIDI clock, as well, or you can use tap tempo.
Onboard controls include:
Drive: Input gain, up to +15 dB (which can clip your sound prior to conversion)
Naked: dry signal
Dressed: 8-bit (wet) signal
Filter controls: set to green (low-pass), yellow (band-pass), or orange (hi-pass), then adjust cutoff (20-15kHz) and Q
Brain: changes the function of the rectangular switches at the bottom, between selecting parameters and muting/inverting the 8-bit signal
Clock: 250-30kHz sample clock frequency
Bypass: a true relay bypass
Switches 1-8: mute or invert your 8-bits, select effects and parameters, and recall presets/snapshots
The main issue is that it’s using the 8 rectangular switches along the bottom of the unit that most directly shapes the sound, by allowing you to set each bit independently – literally, the eight bits of the signal itself. Switch off “Brain” mode, and you can directly manipulate the bits of the signal, then mix that signal with your dry source.
The presets portion can incorporate all of your own presets, with 16 slots and SysEx dump functions for storage and recall on your computer.
I/O:
Unbalanced 1/4″ inputs (2x mono L+R)
Unbalanced 1/4″ outputs (2x mono L+R)
MIDI in, MIDI out
9V AC adapter
Metal case 1.27 lb (580g)"
