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BITPUNK Black Friday deal: 89% off this bit crusher plugin from United Plugins, which brings it to $9 until Nov 29, 2026.
BITPUNK is a digital degradation effect built around bit manipulation. It swaps, crushes, inverts and morphs bits, and it can sit anywhere between a light touch and total destruction.
The maker also lists a production expansion pack, Synthpunk for BITPUNK, with your BITPUNK purchase.
The core idea is swapping bits between two channels, A and B. For the swap to have any effect, the two channels have to differ, so the plugin gives you A and B effects to pull them apart.
The maker says these sound good on their own and get dirtier once the bits are swapped.
BITPUNK also has a sidechain input that routes any audio into the B channel. You can swap bits between two sources and morph from one to the other, or duplicate the input and process the copy with external effects.
In Mute mode, bits from the input are swapped with silenced bits for classic bit crushing. A standard crusher silences bits from highest to lowest. Here you can mute them in any order you like.
After the bit effects, the master section finishes the sound. BITPUNK packs a heavy-handed compressor, diode-style saturation with soft clipping, filters that cut the lows or the highs, and a hard clipper. Together they can smooth out brittle highs, thicken a signal or push it into distortion, and a master Dry/Wet knob lets you mix the processed result with the original.
Frequency shifting and glitch effects handle the deformation side. Push those into the compressor and hard clipper and you get the full-wreck end of the range.
BITPUNK runs on both platforms in VST, VST3 and AAX hosts, with AU added on Mac.
Activation uses licence files. BITPUNK needs no iLok, dongle or online connection, and the maker permits installing it on every machine you personally work on.
The interface is a photorealistic hardware-style GUI. Drag the arrow in the bottom right corner to resize it, smaller to save screen space or larger for easier control.
Processing runs at 64-bit internally and handles any sampling rate, including 192 kHz and above.
Smart Bypass avoids clicks when you automate the bypass parameter and compensates for latency, so bypass states stay in sync. Sleep on Silence drops CPU use to virtually nothing when there is no signal to process.
The maker offers free-for-life updates and a free 15-day trial with no saving limits.
Yes. The BITPUNK Black Friday deal is 89% off, which brings this United Plugins bit crusher to $9 until Nov 29, 2026. Your purchase also comes with the Synthpunk production expansion pack for BITPUNK.
BITPUNK swaps, crushes, inverts and morphs bits. Its main feature swaps bits between channels A and B, and Mute mode swaps in silenced bits for crushing, where you choose the order the bits are muted instead of going highest to lowest.
It comes as VST, VST3 and AAX on Mac and Windows, with AU on Mac too. Mac needs macOS 10.10 or newer, Windows needs 8, 10 or 11, both 64-bit. Apple Silicon is supported.
The maker offers a free 15-day trial with unlimited use, no saving limits and no added noise. Activation uses licence files, so no iLok, dongle or internet access is needed, and updates are free for life.
Prices and end dates are checked at publishing time and can change, so confirm them at the store before you buy.