README.md

BitCrusher Demo (v2)

A simple bitcrusher plugin inspired by a tutorial by Aaron Leese (Stagecraft Software) and Joshua Hodge from the The Audio Programmer.

(here is a video of the plugin in action inside Ableton Live 10)

The plugin is the result of following along with the tutorial and then trying to add a bunch of improvements and extra features in order to learn the basics of the JUCE framework.

If you are just getting started, I suggest taking a look at the original tutorial and code first:

• Juce Tutorial 39- Bitcrusher Plugin Walkthrough with Aaron Leese (Stagecraft Software)
• GitHub repo

Plugin details/additions

Here's a list of the main additions or changes that I made to the original tutorial code.

New Features

• mix: controlling dry/wet ratio
• noise type: chose between white and "simple" noise (TODO: add other type of noise)
• noise algorythm: chose whether noise is added or multiplied with the original signal
• gain: control the global output

Improvements

• make use of AudioProcessorValueTreeState to manage plugin state and keep it in sync with the GUI. This considerably reduces code size and number of errors, highly recommended. See Tutorial: Saving and loading your plug-in state.
• make use of getStateInformation and getStateInformation so that plugin state can be saved within your DAW session (again, see Tutorial: Saving and loading your plug-in state, as well as other JUCE tutorials)
• make use of removeFromTop, removeFromLeft (& friends) to build the GUI, instead of specifiying everything with fixed positions. See Tutorial: Advanced GUI layout techniques
• the bitrate slider only shows integers