The Destroyer's PAULA DAMAGE LAB

PAULA DAMAGE LAB is a free sampler, sample editor and destructive effects processor for the Commodore Amiga, written in C89 for the 68020 and running on its own 320x256 screen under AmigaOS 3.1. The idea behind it came from the need to work on one exact sample that cannot be recreated: when the source is analogue, that take will never happen again, so resampling is not an option and the only way forward is to damage what you already have. It records through a parallel port sampler cartridge with monitor-first punch-in, browses and auditions samples through its own file browser, and applies more than thirty effects that are designed to be gentle on a single press and brutal when stacked. Samples are saved as 8-bit RAW, ready to be imported into Oktalyzer, ProTracker or OctaMED. The whole program is a single self-contained executable with no external libraries, and it is free: giftware, freely distributable, and the music you make with it is yours.

SAMPLER: - note and frequency selector - left and right channel selector - MON monitor mode - REC record. FILE BROWSER: - ALL/RAW file view filter - PLAY the selected file. EDITOR: - zoom in and zoom out - full sample view - play the selected range - cut the selected range - hide to workbench - undo the last operation. EFFECTS: - DC centre offset - phase inverter - double the volume - DIG random volume carving - bit crush to 1, 2 or 4 bit - transpose one octave down - MBITE new mids by wavefolding - BITE new highs by wavefolding - half wave rectifier - W-FOLD wavefolding of the 500Hz band on top of the dry signal - HIPASS low cut with selectable frequency and dB - reverb with room, damp and mix - BOOST raise high frequencies - SOFT lower high frequencies - normalize - SATURATOR with four harmonic types - HOLES - REVERSE - STUTTER - SPIKE - BEND UP - BEND DN - BITROT - FREEZE - SHRED - chorus - flanger - phaser.