DestroyFX Buffer Override

We've all got plugins we used to swear by 20 years ago, but which have long since become obsolete or unsupported (Truc by De La Mancha is one that springs to mind for me - along with many others I've probably forgotten). Here we have a video looking at the crazy-fun DestroyFX Buffer Override, with imagoTools guiding us through this brilliant buffer-mashing device.

More details and downloads of Buffer Override are here: 

With Buffer Override, you can overcome your host application's audio processing buffer size and then (unsuccessfully) override that new buffer size to be a smaller buffer size. You can think of these as the "super-buffer" and then its "sub-buffer." Listen to what it does and you'll understand more what I'm talking about and what the point of it is.

Additionally, Buffer Override's buffer divisor value can be optionally controlled by MIDI notes and pitch bend messages (optionally because the value can still also be controlled by the parameter slider; and pitch bend messages are always interpreted relative to whatever the current state of things is, regardless of whether you are playing notes or not).

Buffer Override's controls are organized into sections:

The center is the most important part. That is where the big box is, which is the crux of Buffer Override. That box is a two-parameter "XY" control. Left-right movements control the buffer divisor parameter. Up-down movements control the forced buffer size parameter. The buffer tempo sync button to the right of the box toggles the behavior of forced buffer size.

The lower left corner has controls for an LFO that can modulate the buffer divisor. The lower right corner has controls for an LFO that can modulate the forced buffer size.

The lower middle section has stuff relating to MIDI. The upper right corner has mix-related stuff. The upper left corner provides a visualization of the effect.

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