Ottobit
Meet Ottobit. Crush Bits, De-Rez + Sonic Destroy. Designed and Manufactured in Los Angeles, California U.S.A.
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Designed to give musicians and sound designers tools to sculpt any source into audio reminiscent of early 8 and 16 bit video game soundtracks.
Angelo Mazzocco
As a Dorito fueled young guitar player, I split my time between practicing alternate picking and playing The Revenge of Shinobi. Yuzo Kushiro’s music/sound design was burned into my musical psyche. I made sure to infuse those textures into the Ottobit, especially in designing its pitch tracked FM ring modulator.
Sound Clips
- Sample Rate Decimation
- Bit Reduction
- Pitch Track Enabled Ring Modulator
- Tap Tempo controlled Triggered Envelopes & LFO Modifiers
- Selectable LFO and Ring Mod Waveshapes
- Blendable Ring Mod AM/FM Modulation
- Premium analog signal path and 24-bit AD/DA w/32 bit floating point DSP
- Designed and Built in Los Angeles, California U.S.A.
- Premium quality 24 bit A/D and D/A
- 32 Bit floating point DSP hardware
- Premium low noise Analog signal path throughout
- Burr-Brown precision balanced input and output drivers
- Stereo Linkable
- 100% Analog bypass
Reviews
Stunningly wide palette of sound-sculpting options.
Meris Ottobit offers an aggressive yet organic-sounding palette. Based on 32-bit floating-point DSP hardware, this module offers plenty of means to decrease the ‘digital bandwidth’ of the program material to creative ends, and the additional ring modulator helps to refine the outcome. The high manufacturing quality and the fair price should make your decision even easier.
I was instantly rewarded with computerized sounds of a depth I was never able to achieve with plugins…
Ottobit’s hardware truly reigns supreme. It sounds great, is versatile yet specific…
There are plug-ins which can destroy the sonic integrity or sample bit rate of your audio signal, but Meris’ Ottobit 500 series unit takes your audio into the 8-bit realm in a really pleasing way.
There wasn’t anything I routed to the Ottobit that I didn’t find some amount of joy in the result. Drums, keys, vocals, guitars, bass, saxophone, synths — you name it. Ottobit destroyed it in the best sort of way.
I love this unit on bass. From a little edge and grit, to full-blown mangle — bass is the place. Electric bass takes on a whole new meaning and can have all new uses and functions in a mix. If you run it in parallel, the Ottobit can be added to taste; or if you desire, run it straight-in and wide-open for sounds that are very non-bass. It’s also really nice when you want to add a little (or a lot of) something to a synth-bass. Like on bass, adding mild amounts of Ottobit to guitar can give the track a nice texture and interest, and again, letting it rip gives way to glitch, bleep-bloopy, buzzy goodness.
