+decimate

+decimate was developed to be a VST plug-in which performs simple bit-depth reduction and sample-rate reduction. This produces sounds with less resolution and more sampling artifacts(decimation noise and sample rate aliasing) than the original.

There are only two parameters in +decimate, "DEPTH" and "AVERAGING". They are both controlled by horizontal sliders. - "DEPTH" controls the bit depth, and is variable from 1 to 32 bits. Reducing the bit depth is somewhat like hard clipping. A low bit depth will produce harmonic distortion. The scale is continuous and exponential with 5 bits near the center of  the range. - "AVERAGING" controls the sample rate reduction, and does so by averaging adjacent sampleswith no further anti-aliasing filtering. Because of this, this filter produces lots of high frequency aliasing noise. The scale is in power of two steps from 1 to 256 samples. A 256 sample averaging of a 44100 sample rate produces a sound with a sample rate of 44100/256 or 172.26 samples per second.