The glitch plugins thread.

[DWb]

of course im talking about glitch when it became a scene rather than a few musicians experimenting with new forms,

I tend to associate it with Mille Plateaux up until Clicks and Cuts (at which point the whole thing seemed to splinter off in all directions), and they were pretty heavy on the theoretical side of things...

[DWb]

How's about we abuse these digital emulations and see if we can come up with glitch^2.

You'll probably find that if you overload your processor while using Buffer Overload it f**ks up and produces an incredibly realistic sounding Moog bass.

[shamann]

i thought the rise of glitch was a reply to the commercial uprising in the dance scene in general,ie the police crack downs on any illegal partys so making dance music in clubs only available to the beautiful people who could afford to get into ministry and shit.its the revolution to all that superstar dj shite the likes of oaky and tall paul like to boast about. it was dirty and in yer face and scared the beautiful people, the darkness was ours again.

I think that was more IDM and the chill-out rooms in general, like Autechre's Anti EP.

Glitch took off mostly on German labels, and was mostly made by Germans, so the UK-centric police crackdowns probably wouldn't have been that big of an influence.

This is just an aside, but I can remember when glitch stuff first started getting attention, and rock journalists were desperate to categorize it.

My favourite of the early names was glitchno.

[WhiteNoise]

No one has mentioned Memory yet - http://www.whitenoiseaudio.com/memory/

IMO better than Phutboy.

[Amberience]

[Amberience]

[vurt]

I think that was more IDM and the chill-out rooms in general, like Autechre's Anti EP.

Glitch took off mostly on German labels, and was mostly made by Germans, so the UK-centric police crackdowns probably wouldn't have been that big of an influence.

This is just an aside, but I can remember when glitch stuff first started getting attention, and rock journalists were desperate to categorize it.

My favourite of the early names was glitchno.

as a label i would agree completely,ie what the papers called it,but as a soound glitch was not soley a german thing at all,nor even a european thing. my first experiences of glitch in clubs were around the days of extreme noise terror and such. artists supporting these death noise blokes would always be unheard of and technofreaks(cyberpunkesqu)
bands like the ressurection of richard joy et al...
sadly it was seen as tastelss noise by most mags over here,even the undergrounds so never really made an imapct until later.
but also as a sound to dismiss things as far back as the likes of musique concrete would be a denial of history.
but we could argue on semantics of when the genre hit,all i will say is in my opinion its what comes out at the end,not how many equations you did to get there

[Amberience]

The earliest I've heard glitch would be back in the Schaeffer days. Certainly some of his works would fit nicely in the glitch realm.

[meister eder]

Another nice one (if not mentioned before): plasq Musolomo

And also SFX Machine RT can produce some nice glitches (Another grandfather ). Too sad it doesn't have the Edit page like the original Premiere version had: That was completely new glitch effects with each hit of the Randomize button.

[LIMITAPROACHINGINFINITY]

Oh yes there is! This thread quite effectively proves that.

Sure if you are an ubertweaker and get a kick off that kind of trainspotter pedancy you *can* do it manually. But just look at that list of plugins (page 2). I dare you to do all that manually!

I think there is a difference - the difference between wave slicing (or even CD player abusing) and glitch plugins may not be big in terms of sound, but it is big in terms of methodology and the attitude you need to bring to the music. If you look at the early stuff from people like Mille Plateaux or (in particular) Oval, using glitches is part of a fundamentally different approach to digital technology, these days it's often just another cool set of noises to use. Nothing wrong with that, but there is a difference.

I see what your saying.. And i think you can hear the difference.

[Kingston]

ok, I've edited the first post to reflect pretty much all the plugins mentioned here. Pretty comprehensive, if a little messy.


Now let's sticky this somewhere, shall we?

[Kingston]

I see what your saying.. And i think you can hear the difference.

yeah, but as you might read further into the conversation, no one can say wether that's a good or a bad thing. Or what the better sound might be.

Most of us just seem to want to get the job done. Besides, some of the better glitch plugins have gone quite a lot further than anything that could be done manually. It's no longer such a simple choice.

[R.A.W.]

Also wanted to mention that Liveslice doesn't seem to work for me in FL Studio 5 or 6. It will work sometimes for no particular reason, and when it does work, it's only for a few seconds. Anyone have any info., is this a known problem?

i don't know if anyone else has this problem but you should head to the LiveSlice forum here at kvr and start a thread. http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=72
i'm sure ohm will fix whatever is causing your probs. you should make sure that you use the latest version 1.30 as it had some bug-fixes which already could work for you.

[PTV]

The correct link for FreeZZZZZer2:

http://www.gogma.com/diverse/FreeZZZZZer2.zip

[meister eder]

Sure there's reaktor and pluggo, but I'd like to keep this list VST only.

Errr.... Pluggo is a set of VST plugins. Never has been anything else (apart from now being a set of AU plugins, too).

But include whatever you feel fits.