Entropy Encoder

Bitrate runs from 8 to 128 kbps. Lower settings reduce high-frequency detail, increase stepping, and make the artifact controls more pronounced.

Cleanish uses the less aggressive quantization behavior.

Nasty reduces the available resolution and increases the severity of low-bitrate movement.

Clean reduces smear, noise, birdies, pre-echo, and sample-rate degradation relative to their knob settings.

Classic uses the neutral reference scaling for the individual artifact controls.

BadStream pushes noise, smear, pre-echo, and high-frequency degradation further.

Broken uses the strongest character scaling for unstable and damaged-stream results.

Dry/Wet crossfades between the original input and the complete processed signal.

Smear softens time and spectral detail so attacks and high-frequency texture lose definition.

PreEcho adds transient-dependent early smear before sharp attacks. It is most audible on cymbals, percussion, piano, and other fast material.

Swish adds slow movement to the high-frequency noise texture, producing the breathing or underwater quality associated with low-bitrate streams.

Reservoir sets how strongly the simulated bit reservoir responds to easy and difficult passages, making quality allocation pump with the source.

SR Degrade reduces time resolution in the upper bands for crunchy, held, or telephone-like high-frequency motion.

Noise sets the amount of shaped quantization-style noise added to the processed bands.

Birdies adds narrow, whistling high-frequency tones whose strength increases as bitrate falls.

Glitch sets the probability of short high-frequency packet-failure events. Events become more likely at low bitrate.

Psycho uses the input analyzer to steer masking, bit-reservoir pressure, and artifact placement. Off uses a more static response.

Frame Quantize applies bitrate changes on frame-style boundaries instead of continuously, making automation step like encoder decisions.

Tier Cut snaps the high-frequency cutoff to discrete codec-style tiers instead of moving as a smooth low-pass filter.

PeakBird lets birdie tones follow strong detected spectral peaks instead of using only free-running random frequencies.

Stereo MP3 adds frequency-dependent joint-stereo behavior, with stronger high-frequency collapse and intensity-stereo character at lower quality.

Hold repeats the previous high-frequency frame when a glitch occurs, creating a short buffer-hold or stutter.

Drop removes the high-frequency frame during a glitch, creating a brief loss of air while lower content remains.

Randomize generates new mode, character, artifact, option, and bitrate settings. Dry/Wet, Sync Random, Sync Division, and the trigger itself remain unchanged.

Bitrate lock prevents randomization and slot playback from changing Bitrate while allowing all other included parameters to move.

Sync Random generates a new randomized state on host-clock boundaries.

Sync Division sets the randomization interval from 1/32 through triplet and dotted values to one bar.

Generated random values update the sound and slot contents without writing every generated value as host automation.

1-8 select a slot and show its stored state.

Copy / Paste copies or pastes the complete selected slot state.

Random creates randomized content for the selected slot.

CLK OFF stops automatic stepping. Manual slot changes and randomization still use Slew.

CLK INT runs from the internal clock. Rate is displayed in Hz.

CLK HOST runs from DAW transport and changes Rate to musical divisions.

Slew sets interpolation time between slot states. Other parameter lanes continue independently while one control is being edited.

Rate sets internal speed or host-clock division, depending on the selected clock source.

Holding a parameter while slots advance writes that value into every incoming slot and prevents that control from jumping. Other parameters continue their existing slew.

Preset arrows step through available presets and wrap between the first and last entries.

Preset name opens the preset browser.

Name generates a preset name.

Save writes the complete state. Saving without first generating a name creates one automatically.

Factory / User / Starting Points / Favorites filter the preset browser.

Versioned Save writes a numbered copy when the current preset has changed.

Folder opens the preset directory for external renaming or deletion.

Refresh reloads externally renamed or deleted preset files.