Technical information

McDSP plug-ins
At the heart of FutzBox’s ability to mimic a variety of audio products are
hundreds of SIMs included with the plug-in. The FutzBox SIM library covers
a large palette of sonic footprints from a myriad of audio devices including
cell phones, transistor radios, speakers, ear buds, tape machines, megaphones,
and many more.
The Main section in the upper part of the plug-in has input and output level
controls, together with a Mix control that lets you adjust the balance between
the ‘dry’ input and ‘wet’ output signals. The large display area is divided into
four sections: the SIM section, the lo- section, the  lter response curves, and
a pair of input and output level bar graph meters.
The SIM section shows an image of the modelled device and has a pair of arrow
buttons to let you select di erent SIMs from the library. Each SIM responds in a
di erent way to the Tune parameter, which is located in a numerical data entry
 eld just below the SIM image on the FutzBox user interface. Unlike an impulse
response, a SIM has no internally latency and can be adjusted in real time.
The lo- section, acting as the  nal stage of the FutzBox, has three numerical
data entry  elds that can be used to lower the sample rate, introduce anti-alias
 ltering, and reduce the bit depth from 24 bits all the way down to 2 bits in
1-bit steps.
Figure A12.8
The FutzBox.