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by rpdillon 2737 days ago
The tag line is on the site says:

> A free lightweight 8-bit voxel art editor and interactive path tracing renderer.

Is the sentence in some way more clear with the modifier '8-bit'? What's being clarified?

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That the voxels are each a solid color and are expected to be displayed at between 1x1 and 4x4 screen pixels per voxel. Definitely not minecraft-style, for example.
That people are looking for “8-bit.” For instance, someone might google “8 bit editor.”
Someone might also google "audio editor", so why not also call it an audio editor to be on the safe side?
8-bit style voxel art can easily be made with this. In fact, that's the intended use case.

This would be a very poor tool for creating audio, and anyone looking for an audio tool would notice this immediately.

"8-bit voxel" is completely understood to the target audience. Anything involving audio would not.