Prompt Audio · Chip synth
Bitling
Four emulated 8-bit sound chips in one plug-in, playing up to 16 sounds at once
Bitling emulates four 8-bit home-computer sound chips per instance. Each chip has three oscillator channels and a sample-noise channel, so up to 16 sounds play at once. Filters, LFOs, looping envelopes and a 16-step wavetable sit on top, with 126 factory patches and 8 kits.
- Chips
- 4
- Sounds at once
- 16
- Factory patches
- 126
- Oversampling
- 1-8x
What it does
The chip, modelled down to its registers
A 24-bit phase accumulator, a 16-bit frequency register at PAL or NTSC clock and a 23-bit noise LFSR. The envelope generator keeps its original delay quirk.
Waveforms of both chip revisions
Triangle, saw, pulse and noise, plus the combined waveforms of both revisions. Ring modulation and hard sync work as on the chip.
A filter on every channel
Each channel has its own low-, band- or high-pass filter with resonance up to 127, plus volume and balance. Every chip has its own stereo output.
Modulation per patch
4 LFOs, 4 eight-point looping envelopes, 8 combiners and a 9-destination matrix. 8 macros are host-automatable.
16-step wavetable for drums and chords
Each patch steps through a 16-step wavetable for drums, arpeggio chords and attack transients. Multi, Poly and Unison modes, glide and a 5-mode arpeggiator cover the rest.
Sample-noise kits
The fourth channel plays samples with 4-bit volume-register synthesis, in kits of 16 keys. Patch memory holds 64 kits.
Good to know
- The combined waveforms and filter curves are modelled, not sampled from real chips, so the emulation is not bit-exact.
- Each chip channel plays one note. For chords from one MIDI channel, set a chip to Poly mode.
System requirements
- macOS 11 or later
- Apple silicon or Intel Mac
- Formats: AU, VST3, Standalone
- A host that loads Audio Units or VST3 plug-ins, for the plug-in versions
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