Glitch Plugins

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dblue Glitch

DBlue Glitch GUI

Probably the first usable glitch plugin. In KVR this used the be called the fuck shit up section.

You can use it with one shots or loops that get bufferred into steps obviously working jst as well on vocals and melody loops leads and abstract sounds

9 different effects can then be applied and mixed into those segments and the sequence looped. Each effect has a few parameters, for example the retrigger effect has knobs for speed, length and pitch.

 

  • TapeStop
  • Modulator
  • Retrigger
  • Shuffler
  • Reverser
  • Crusher
  • Gater
  • Delay
  • Stretcher

The effect for each segment can be random, preset to one of the effect modules or bypassed to the original clean audio. There are also 4 different filters available for the master sound and for each effect.

Cryogen is a modular buffer effects processor designed to generate abstract musical malfunctions.

Cryogen features dual buffer effects, dual multimode filters and dual bit crusher effects. With the advent of its flexible architecture and fully modular drag & drop modulation matrix, Cryogen is capable of generating everything from subtle glitches to stunning signal mutations, making it an exciting creative tool for electronic musicians and sound designers.

Between its flexible routing matrix, multiple effects processors and extensive modulation options, Cryogen enables you to dial in vast variations of special effects. Cryogen takes buffer effects one step closer to the edge!

We got this as part of one of plugin boutiques deals so at 5 euro the only real qiestion is would it end up being used in a tune as the value for money paret is a no brainer. The screen is too small and can't be resized and while this is a small gripe it is actually big enough to make the experience unpleasant, at least until the labels are no longer needed.

I needed to resort to the manual once or twice which for something of this complexity is impressive and once I got to grips with thje gui it wasn't long before Iwas wondering "what would happen if I plugged this into that"

Just like a real modular one cannot simply turn knobs to full whack indiscriminately as on things like gates, bleed alone can render the process indistinguishable. So keeping knobs at a max of 90% until one gets a feel for things is advised. At this point I wanted more control over the LFOs to sync or retrigger on command, this was not possible.

Instead I simply passed all of the various loops and hits for this particular tune through the presets and saved all the sounds as ableton clips.

The presets are impressive and this is how the plugin is sold and fair enough, used as a preprocessor to gather sounds can really push glitches (with tails) to new terrain. But so far, as a device to manipulate stuff live, the jump from one sound to another seems too complicated. But I'll return to this to confirm.

So. so far I've used it in one tune 'Lions across the'  and intend to use it in another '005 Deep Tune'.\

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