The Sonalksis Digital Grimebox, is a creative sonic degradation plug-in. The Grimebox lets you play with some uniquely brutal but creative effects, and is specially adapted to allow automatable degradation. Many sonic degradation effects are not suited to real-time automation as they are incapable of a smooth transition in the audio degeneration, unlike the Digital Grimebox which was designed with this in mind. The Digital Grimebox is comprised of a bitcrusher, a downsampler, an adaptive bias and distortion algorithm, and a low pass filter.

The Digital Grimebox is efficient, intuitive and direct - and therefore very simple to use, providing great results with minimal effort, the interface and the options provided make it easy to achieve a variety of sonic effects including, but not limited to:

• Downsampling of audio to create subtle or not-so-subtle lo-fi effects

• Bitcrushing of transient-rich audio to add emphasis

• General audio degradation effects

• Clipping of transient signals to enhance and excite top end energy

• Use combinations of downsampling and bitcrushing to introduce harmonic distortion to fatten bass and other tones

• Adaptive bias technology - psychoacoustically optimised to generate flattering tubesque even order distortion.

• Designed for automation, with smooth control of the degrading signal

• Four available modes of adaptive distortion

• Three available lowpass filter types

• Selective clipper-limiter threshold activation level

• 64bit floating point precision internal processing throughout

• Ultra efficient processing, with specific optimisations for native processors

• Zero latency throughput

• Ultra efficient processing, with specific optimisations for native processors

• Glitchless switch transitions [e.g. limiter in/out, bypass on/off]

• Graphical display indicators provide detailed feedback on response settings