A quick pull of the ‘Clock Freq’ wheel sets off the most arse-rumbling filter-cum-distortion nastiness I’ve heard since Aba Shanti‘s decommissioned Carnival rig.Īt the heart of the machine is a 12-bit engine designed to yield a vintage retro crunch, and on first listen it sounds a very good emulation. There are 30 presets here across three banks, with fairly self-explanatory monikers such as ‘Octapose’ and the intriguingly titled ‘Nyquist Issues’ to get you going. Everything is accessible, easily automatable and relatively easy to get to grips with.Īs with most VSTs, I patch it right into an insert, over a beat or vocal and start cursoring presets to get a rough overview of what the beast does. The controls are neatly laid-out and there’s a pulsing Knight Rider-esque faux LCD to show what’s going on in the sequencer section. The first thing you’ll notice about Permut8 is its retro-styled orange GUI, reminding you vaguely of a circuit-bent Tomy toy of a bygone age. In fact, at times Permut8 can sound more like a distortion or a filter than a delay. The delay time can be modulated and controlled via a pair of step sequencers, which means that the resulting sound is unlike any delay you’ve ever heard. Permut8 is a unique effect based around 12-bit digital delay lines. So when I had the chance to review Permut8 – after witnessing the excited twittering from Tony Senghore and Mason – I jumped at the chance to put it through its paces. No doubt it’s these same qualities that have ensured Synplant and MicroTonic an integral part of many a sonic arsenal for years. Not just uniquely different, but instantly usable and easily affordable. Among the endless dearth of super saw upon super saw-stacked EDMoshillated VSTs, it’s refreshing to see someone doing something different. We put the 12-bit orange meany through its paces. Sonic Charge’s Permut8 – a delay-based plugin that embraces the sounds of ‘primitive signal processing hardware’ has been the talk of Twitter.
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