Glitch by Illformed

Glitch has an average user rating of 4.73 from 11 reviews

User Reviews by KVR Members for Glitch

Reviewed By AaronGNP [all]
January 4th, 2007
Version reviewed: 1.3 on Windows

Great plug in for automating glitch and IDM type sounds. The default effects are all pretty useful and extremely tweakable. The user interface is clean and extremely easy to navigate. There are a few elements that could be improved upon (restart loop/pattern upon midi note (pattern) change, as an example), but overall is very easy to use and makes glitching out a song very easy. Low CPU load is a plus and allows the end user to run multiple instances very easily. The addition of some presets on knob positions would be nice, but seeing as how easy it is to change the settings, it's not a deal breaker.

I've been using this since the 1.2 Betas, and the jump to 1.3 is pretty large, but it's unfortunate that if you wrote any songs using the 1.2.x versions, they would not be compatible with the 1.3.x versions, and would require that you have two versions of the VST for backwards compatibility.

Layering several instances of Glitch in an effect channel can produce some bizarre and mindblowing effects.

This is a must have for anyone making glitch/IDM/noise.

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Comments & Discussion for Illformed Glitch

Discussion: Active

ksunvorstellbar
10 April 2012 at 8:55pm

I love this Vst-Effect

Glitch is intuitive and simple and really a very creative tool to create Sound Samples your way

its just awesome

i dont find enough english words to show you my love to this Plugin

apollongx00
23 July 2012 at 2:09am

thanks

ratox
13 March 2014 at 3:38pm

This is what I wrote to the developers. I bought the plugin.

probably you think that most of your customers don't know electronic music, and this is very bad. Even if they can use your preset randomly to make some noise in the dance hall, I find that your plugs are nice and could be used in serious composition too. So WHY YOU DONT WRITE PARAMETERS EXPLICATIONS IN THE GLITCH MANUAL? For example, in the Granular time stretch you call "stretcher", what does GM series of control means?

Thanks for some serious support,
Alessandro Ratoci.

P.S. seems that you are missing the step duration, and steps are forced to be 16th note. Pretty big limitation, is it?

ratox
13 March 2014 at 3:54pm

Very cool guys:

Hi Alessandro,

I do agree that detailed descriptions of each effect are missing from
the manual. I will try to add these in the near future, to better
explain what everything does.

I have tried to put tool tips on almost every part of the plugin, so
you can hover your mouse cursor over something for a few moments to
get a basic description.

In the Stretcher effect, "GM" is "grain modulation". There is an
envelope follower which follows the amplitude of the input signal, and
then you can optionally modulate the grain size in sync with this. It
can help to give some interesting dynamic variations in tone and
character on the stretching effect. Hopefully this becomes somewhat
obvious when simply playing around with the parameters for a few
moments.

Either way, you should simply play around with the effects, tweak some
parameters, and see what happens. If it sounds cool, then it's all
good. This is an experimental glitch plugin after all, not a perfectly
accurate scientific tool. It's intended that you should experiment and
have fun :)

Kind regards,

Kieran Foster
http://illformed.com.

ansolas
11 April 2016 at 5:09pm

It is Tagged as Audio Recorder. Can It record audio ?

fabi
21 December 2018 at 6:00pm

Only internally for certain effects.

Krakatau
24 August 2021 at 4:51pm

would it be M1/Big Sur compatible ?

Krakatau
25 February 2022 at 6:33am

Or Monterey/Apple silicon compatible ...one day ?

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