cm/the 6 best… Lo-fi Plugins

Get the vibe and nostalgia behind lo-fi hip-hop, or just add some crust to purely digital projects with these six devices

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XLN Audio RC-20 Retro Color

€100 10/10 cm239

Six modules to shoot your audio back in time like some kind of retro DSP cannon, RC-20 offers: Vinyl, Wow and Flutter, Distort, Digital, Space and Magnetic sections. Using different combinations of each, the plugin lets you put any kind of vintage tint on your choons, from video-game bitcrushing, through vinyl and tape emulation, to valve saturation. The only negative is the fixed signal path, but the sonic quality within is very high [well technically, it’s very low, but you get the drift]. RC-20 is a cure-all for producers plagued by vintage nostalgia.
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Aberrant DSP Sketch Cassette II

$30