Harsher Reality
by Piruz Labs
Six-media lo-fi damage with a recovery stage
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Lo-fi damage plugin built around six media that each break differently: tape, cassette, vinyl, VHS, radio and digital. One Accept Reality dial takes a sound from clean to wrecked, and the Denial stage pushes air, body and attack back through it. Lite (tape, cassette, vinyl) is free with no time limit; Pro adds the other three media, Denial and WAV export for a one-time price.
About Harsher Reality
Harsher Reality damages audio through six media, and each one has its own sound even with every damage knob at zero: tape is warm with low hiss, cassette brighter with flutter, vinyl brings crackle and real 33 rpm wow, VHS a slow wobble and mains hum, radio a squeezed band-pass over static, and digital a silent floor with pure crunch.
One dial, Accept Reality, runs from clean to broken. Around it sit wow and flutter, drop outs, wear, scratches, tracking and jitter, plus noise voiced per medium. Drop outs follow the medium too: classic dropouts on tape, the station fading into static on radio, hard glitch cuts on digital. The Denial stage then listens to what the damage took and pushes air, body and attack back in.
You can drop a WAV on the panel to hear it processed and export a 24-bit render. The free Lite version keeps tape, cassette and vinyl with the core damage set; Pro adds VHS, radio and digital, scratches, tracking, jitter, drive, Denial and export. Every install starts with a 7-day full Pro trial and falls back to Lite afterwards.
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Specs
| Formats | VST3AUStandalone |
|---|---|
| Platforms | Windows,macOS |
| Released | |
| Developer | Piruz Labs |
| Open source |
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