CONVERTER

SAMPLE CONVERTER

The console’s own way with samples

What it does

The console's own way with samples: the sample converter that the disc-era machine ran everything through, with its RATE from 4 kHz to 44.1 kHz and the chip's four predictor pairs (FILTER), which is where that machine's grit came from. Run a clean chip through it and it comes out of that console.

RATE 22050 with FILTER 2 is the sound of that generation
RATE 8000 on a vocal is the game's voice clip

Where it goes

CHANNELSBUSESMASTER

Four to a socket, in order: sound runs through the slots top to bottom. Open the box and every knob is in real units; BYPASS takes it out of the path without losing its settings; the presets are along the top; any knob learns a controller and gets an automation lane.

The knobs

3 KNOBS · REAL UNITS

Knob	Range	Starts at	Scale
RATE	4000 Hz to 44100 Hz	22050 Hz	log
FILTER	NONE · PAIR 1 · PAIR 2 · PAIR 3 · PAIR 4	PAIR 2	steps
MIX	0 to 1	1	linear

The presets

6 IN THE BANK

Every box ships with a bank. AS SET is the knobs as you left them; the rest are starting points, each a sound someone wanted often enough to name. Star one and it sits at the front of the bank.

Preset	RATE	FILTER	MIX
CLEAN 44K	44100 Hz	NONE	1
GAME 22K	22050 Hz	PAIR 2	1
LOW 11K	11025 Hz	PAIR 2	1
CRUNCH 8K	8000 Hz	PAIR 3	1
HALF	22050 Hz	PAIR 2	0.5
DIRT 4K	4000 Hz	PAIR 4	1

The console line

Every box is also a line of the console's language, so a pad or a patch can carry its effects in text. The words are the knobs:

fx adpcm rate=22050 filter=2 mix=1