CARTRIDGE – Console Era Drum FX Plug-In

Run your drums through four generations of game consoles. Most bitcrushers sound like a bitcrusher. CARTRIDGE models the sound chips themselves, as four cartridges you plug in: a 4-bit handheld, a 7-bit home console, a 16-bit system with its famous echo, and a 32-bit CD-ROM machine. Insert one and everything follows it, from the bit depth, sample rate and DAC filter to the console's own quirks, right down to the resolution and palette of the screen. Then layer in square-wave fuzz, a noise channel that tracks your hats, echoes that drop a generation with every repeat, and a DAC you can drive until the peaks wrap around.

The demo is the whole plugin. Every cartridge, every control, all 300 presets, on your own drums, for as long as you like. The output mutes for a moment every 45 seconds until you activate. No card. No iLok. No countdown.

Can I try it first? Yes, and there's no clock on it. The free download is the complete plugin running on your own drums, every preset included. The output mutes briefly every 45 seconds until you activate.