Audio Damage has announced the release of Automaton, a glitch plug-in that uses a unique "game of life" style sequencer to drive four glitch effects. Automaton is capable of adding subtle seemingly random fills and "humanizing" effects, but if you like, you can crank the sequencer up to eleven, and watch as your DAW becomes a petri dish while Automaton makes complete hay of the track you've inserted it to.

Features:

• Cellular automata sequencer with host tempo-sync, five different musically useful rulesets (including a step sequencer), extensive randomization features, and a life of its own.
• Four sequencer-driven effects, including Stutter (a buffer delay for extremely short loop slices), Modulate (a self-modulating ring modulator), Bitcrush (sample rate and bit depth reduction, and our own "Error" effect), and Replicate (a special version of our Replicant effect, tuned for use with the cellular automata sequencer).
• Master section allows extensive mixing capabilities, enabling Automaton to excel at either adding subtlety (like an occasional extra hi-hat) or complete self-generating IDM madness.
• MIDI Learn for hardware control of most parameters (VST only)

Automaton is available exclusively in the Audio Damage store for $49.00 instant download. Automaton is a plug-in effect for VST on Windows and VST/AudioUnits on Mac OS X (10.4.0 or later).