Lese has announced an update to its freeware audio degradation plugin. Version 2 of Codec comes with some new features.
Instead of adding vinyl crackles, guitar cabinet simulation, or cassette distortion, codec degrades sound in a more modern way, by utilizing a real-time audio coding standard (made for doing things like video calls) as a discrete audio effect.
Changes in Codec v2.0
- Packet Disorder: Instead of packets just being fed into the internal decoder in their usual order, you can now increase the “disorder” control to shuffle the packets around, giving a much more disjointed sound.
- Noise: You can now add noise to the signal prior to feeding audio into the encoder, this makes the signal “messier” and can add even more artifacts where usually there would have been none. The noise can also be colored differently, to take up different sections of the frequency spectrum.
- Crunch: Crunch can now be adjusted by hovering over the audio visualizer. You can also change the shape of the filter that is used during the crunch process.
Codec is free for for Windows and Mac in VST3 and AU plugin formats.
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