How do I turn music into 8-bit?

[Athaniar]

Question in title. Just wondering if there is any way to do it, preferably free.

[Moff Chumley]

Download this, (http://freemusicsoftware.org/category/free-vst-effects-2/bit-crusher) get Audacity if you don't already have it, load your song, apply the bitcrusher, leave downsampling at 1, drive at 0.0, and bits at 8.

[OracleofWuffing]

Download this, (http://freemusicsoftware.org/category/free-vst-effects-2/bit-crusher) get Audacity if you don't already have it, load your song, apply the bitcrusher, leave downsampling at 1, drive at 0.0, and bits at 8.

I have had my mind blown twelve times before even visiting this forum today.

You just blew it again.

Thanks a lot. :smallmad:

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

Download this, (http://freemusicsoftware.org/category/free-vst-effects-2/bit-crusher) get Audacity if you don't already have it, load your song, apply the bitcrusher, leave downsampling at 1, drive at 0.0, and bits at 8.

How does one apply said bitcrusher?

[Athaniar]

I'm having trouble with that, too. I assume the .dll file goes into my plugin folder, but I don't know how to use it in Audacity itself.

[Moff Chumley]

*doesn't use audacity, ever*

Umm, there should be some menu or another giving you that option... If you wanna get illegal (CHUMLEY DOES NOT ENDORSE GETTING ILLEGAL) it's a good deal easier. Cockos Reaper is perfect for this kinda thing, but I doubt you'll want to shell out $60 for it...

[thubby]

if it works with wavosaur i know how to use that.

[Prime32]

Was pretty sure that most people re-recorded the song themselves as a MIDI then applied 8-bit soundfonts...

[Athaniar]

OK, the trick to enabling the plugin is to first download the VST Enabler (http://www.audacityteam.org/vst/), and then it should show up in Effects. But that does not solve my problems: instead of Downsampling, Drive, and Bits, it gives me the options Dist Type, Gain, Bit-Depth, and Downsampling, all with a 0 to 1 span with six decimals. Help?

EDIT: I might be close to a breakthrough...

EDIT: Close, but not there. Using the latest version (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/beta_windows), I managed to get the proper display. However, Moff Chumley's numbers don't result in anything but a little static in the background.