Finegear Bitweaver Introducing

Bitweaver is 8-bit fully analog bit-crusher that sounds warm, squelchy, fuzzy and rich. One reason is in circuit: its ADC and DAC are built from discrete op-amps, transistors, resistors and capacitors, and inherent imperfections of converting and reconstructing audio signal add squelchy character to sound. Another source of this machine's distinctive sound texture is that Bitweaver computes bits continuously, with no sampling clock, flipping whenever signal crosses threshold. Each of 8-bits is then yours to play with, from Most to Least important: turn it on or off, invert it, replace it with CV signal, or override it with value of another bit. All bit manipulations stay harmonically related to incoming signal, expressing unit's wave-shaping abilities. From sub-audio tremolo to classic bit-crusher grit, 3 distinct sonic territories open up depending on where you place sample-and-hold stage (analog take on sample rate reduction): before bit engine, after it, or bypassed entirely. Bitweaver invites producers, performers, artists and musicians to new kind of analog destruction: harmonically rich, voltage-controllable down to single bit and ready to meet you from desktop or eurorack. For this first video-demo, we are showing Bitweaver in playground of noisy beats. Drum-machine is sent to Bitweaver, which comes to «crush» mix into warm sauce on one of sends, sometimes joined by extra fuzz pedal before it. www.finegear.net Playlists: | #Bitweaver Original video: