Sonic Charge Permut8 - Manual (Page 3)

I N T R O D U C T I O N
Permut8 is an effect plug-in that embraces the sounds of primitive digital signal
processing hardware. It is programmable to produce a wide range of effects
from traditional delays and flangers to beat-repeaters, bit-crushers and yet
unheard of circuit bent madness. At its core is a 12-bit digital delay with
variable sample rate from 0 to 352 khz. The delay is controlled by a
programmable processor with an assortment of operators, allowing you to
create almost any type of effect you can imagine and many more that you
can't. The input and output stages offers virtual analog components for
saturation, limiting and filtering. The output can be fed back into the input to
create echoes, comb-filter effects and never-ending chaos.
With Permut8 we have made a serious effort to make a plug-in that feels and
sounds like a piece of physical digital hardware and not like your typical
software effect. Permut8 can make aliasing noises that would make any
Commodore 64 green of envy, but its aliasing is different from what you
normally encounter in software DSP. For example, it is unrelated to the host
sample rate and you can tune it exactly with the "clock frequency" knob.
Furthermore, the components that should not alias, e.g. the "analog"
saturation, employ heavy-duty anti-aliasing techniques to avoid doing so.
The Permut8 user-interface may seem a bit intimidating at first. Make no
mistake, this is complex machinery at work, but it is also a product that is
designed for experimentation and happy accidents. The best way to learn the
plug-in is probably to dive right in and start flipping those switches at random
and then reading the reference section in this manual or turn to the built-in
"Popup Help" for a better understanding of what is actually going on. On your
journey to master this product we are sure you will encountered many
unexpected and rewarding results.
/ Magnus Lidström
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