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Akai-ify Digital Saturation Filter

by PeggysMom

Basically downsamples and adds a few filters to kind of soun...

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Type
Audio Effect
Author
PeggysMom
Version
1.0
License
AttributionShareAlike
Live version
10.1.18
Max version
8.1.5
Downloads
1,105
Updated
2023-05-23

Akai-ify Digital Saturation Filter is an Audio Effect for Ableton Live by PeggysMom, distributed as Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. It targets Live 10.1.18 and Max 8.1.5. On maxforlive.com it has 1,105 downloads. First published 2023-05-22, last updated 2023-05-23. 12 user comments below.

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Description

Basically downsamples and adds a few filters to kind of sound like an older sampler... mostly based on memory from my MPC2000. Although the MPC purports to be full CD quality, there's gotta be a lot of strange upsampling and downsampling going on in those old things and although it's beyond me, I figure some quality loss and a few filters does something to get in the right direction.

Planning on adding more parameters and doing real testing with my MPC when I have time.

Comments (12)

  • shinytheshiny · May 23 2023
    UI is not loading on m1 mac. its just the max cables and knobs. it still sort of works tho. kinda feel like its not really doing what its supposed to tho.
  • PeggysMom · May 23 2023
    shinytheshiny - oops i must have forgot a couple of loadmessages and messed up wrapping the UI … i’ll fix when i get home here and reupload
  • PeggysMom · May 23 2023
    okay now hopefully it works
  • shinytheshiny · May 23 2023
    works great! thanks for the quick fix. sounds awesome on some old breaks
  • irishmos · May 23 2023
    Sounds decent. A flaw in it is that if you move the parameters from the display, the knobs dont move with them. An actual frequency amount, ex. 7khz would be nice vs an arbitrary value as is.
  • PeggysMom · May 23 2023
    Thanks for pointing that out. If you have spent time with these old machines you will notice the values are often arbitrary. IIRC the mpc2000 filter shows values between 0 and 100 so that's what I was going for. I also had not anticipated controlling the device with the numbers, they're really just there to make it look more like an MPC. Perhaps I should just have them as a message box rather than int box.
  • dundunny · May 23 2023
    can your add option to play like 45 rotation per minute on vinyl thanks
  • koochey · May 26 2023
    Dude - that thing rocks !!
  • pleasure90 · May 26 2023
    Man, this is such a killer device, I put on everything, hot diggity damn!!
    Keep it up.
  • weswook · June 10 2023
    Kudos for putting this together, very much appreciated! Would love to pick your brain sometime regarding the implementation of the dsp. Hope to see further development of this tool!!!!
  • boringforrest · June 26 2023
    This is awesome! I pretty much throw it on everything. any way you could map the parameters to the Push? it would make messing with it a little easier when I'm just on the hardware.
  • elmmaxell · June 27 2023
    i expected a typical bitcrusher/compressor type thing, but this is much more subtle and nuanced than i expected. sounds super accurate to the old Akais and works wonders on smudging up drum breaks. makes me miss my old MPC-2000!

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