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Glitch has an average user rating of 4.73 from 11 reviews

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Glitch

Reviewed By MoreDread [all]
March 30th, 2007
Version reviewed: 1.3.04 on Windows

(sorry for bad english)
This is the ultimate tool to spice up your drums a bit, or to totally fuck them up. Nine highly tweakable effect modules, which can be triggered with the build in sequencer (adjustable steplength).

The user interface is gorgeous, and everything is neatly arranged, perfectly read- and accessible.

This is everything but a one-trick-pony. You can use it slightly on your drums, to bring a little variation and some interesting aspects in your drumloop, or you can turn them into a sonic mayhem, by simply hitting all the randomize buttons you can find (but, be careful with randomizing the modulator, you can get some painful high sounds by doing it).
If you are feeling more experimental, you could also try to use glitch on your vocals, pads, leads.. to get again some interesting aspects or turning them to something totally wicked.
There are even parameters that will affect the behaviour of glitch's randomizing option, so it will never get boring simply hitting the randomize buttons, although this effect is unbelievable cooler if you invest a little time (very little, actually. I figured out everything pretty fast) in learing how the modules work, so you can manually tweak them, and get far more satisfiying and interesting results.
Midilearn is also available for most of the controls, so you can add even more variety to it when playing live..

I never really looked into the documentation (it was not necessary), but yes, there is one, and it looks pretty good.

As for the presets, there are non, but you dont really need any. How can anybody know what effects you will need on which step?
But, there are some templates for the step sizes, which is pretty helpful, and, you can randomize them, if you are too lazy to come up with something yourself, and edit them till you are satisfied.

I never had to use customer support, but there is e-mail support offered at the website.

Value for Money: I want to give Glitch at least a 12 for it's VAL, as it is something completely ingenious and unique, and, best of all, free.

Stability: It never crashed my machine.


My advice would be you simply grab Glitch and try it out yourself, since it is free it won't hurt you, and i believe there is a great possibillity you will like it.
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ksunvorstellbar
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
apollongx00
23 July 2012 at 2:09am

thanks

ratox
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
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
ansolas
11 April 2016 at 5:09pm

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

fabi
fabi
21 December 2018 at 6:00pm

Only internally for certain effects.

Krakatau
Krakatau
24 August 2021 at 4:51pm

would it be M1/Big Sur compatible ?

Krakatau
Krakatau
25 February 2022 at 6:33am

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

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