What plugin do you recommend to mangle sounds?
What plugin do you recommend to mangle sounds?
Lately I have been wanting to expand upon my effects collection with something that i can use to make glitchy, mangled, stretched or basically any form of extreme effect to my sounds. Preferably in a tempo syncable, recreateable way. I have been looking at the new "MOLEKULAR" effects pack from Native Instruments and this made me start to wonder what kind of recommendations you people might have on other similar or better alternatives?
Re: What plugin do you recommend to mangle sounds?
Check out Sugar Bytes:
http://www.sugar-bytes.de
You can destroy pretty much everything you do with their stuff.
I'm seeing just now they have a new plug-in too! Ima hafta check that out.
http://www.sugar-bytes.de
You can destroy pretty much everything you do with their stuff.
I'm seeing just now they have a new plug-in too! Ima hafta check that out.
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Audio effects racks are and a little creativity is all you need.
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This is true, but when you can throw stuff from Audio Damage into those effects racks, they become even more awesomeTomViolenz wrote:Audio effects racks are and a little creativity is all you need.
On that note, Glitch2, Effectrix, Audio Damage Replicant, and Glitchmachines Fracture (free!) immediately come to mind.
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Glitch devices... doesn't it bother anyone that all they do is create a generic signature sound. I've tried out a couple and I spent more time trying to avoid sounding like a preset clone than I did actually using them.
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+1. it makes everyone sound the same. Usually.oddstep wrote:Glitch devices... doesn't it bother anyone that all they do is create a generic signature sound. I've tried out a couple and I spent more time trying to avoid sounding like a preset clone than I did actually using them.
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Re: What plugin do you recommend to mangle sounds?
Molekular is incredibly flexible, built around a modular approach and with numerous effects to chain together and control in various ways, so I'd say you're already looking at the perfect device for your purposes. As for 'originality' well that all falls on the user.. Molekular is certainly deep enough and flexible enough that unique results can be produced. Devices like the dblue Glitch plugin probably result in the usual "me too" sounds that at least one person in the thread is wary of.
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Re: What plugin do you recommend to mangle sounds?
Depends on which one you use, and like pretty much anything else the quality of the product you are using matters.oddstep wrote:Glitch devices... doesn't it bother anyone that all they do is create a generic signature sound. I've tried out a couple and I spent more time trying to avoid sounding like a preset clone than I did actually using them.
Turnado is a beast, and very much like it's name will obliterate your sound, but you can also apply smoothness and subtlety. Effectrix is the same way, but isn't quite as dramatic in it's obliteration. The best part about those two plug-ins is they each offer a certain level of unique effects in their arsenal that helps set them apart from other glitch and mangle effects out there.
Don't believe me? Try the demos.
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I haven't playde with Molekular but I really really like the UI, even just the mix of 3D and flat elements. Definitely a style choice when making M4L devices.
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These are tools. If you abuse them, you sound like the tool.oddstep wrote:Glitch devices... doesn't it bother anyone that all they do is create a generic signature sound. I've tried out a couple and I spent more time trying to avoid sounding like a preset clone than I did actually using them.
If you know how to use it, you incorporate the qualities you like into your tone, and you do so selectively. Like any guitar pedal, plugin, or whatever you might be using to mess with your sound.
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ummm Sampler?
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I used a guitar in a tune once. turned out some other guy had already used a guitar so my track sounded exactly like his.
Sucked.
Sucked.
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My first album turned out exactly like Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Note for note. I was all like, gah!dazzer wrote:I used a guitar in a tune once. turned out some other guy had already used a guitar so my track sounded exactly like his.
Sucked.
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Re: What plugin do you recommend to mangle sounds?
I know you're asking about plugins but consider a Korg Kaoss Pad. I have a KP3 that I use as an external audio effect in Live on a return track. This will definitely glitch up your track without sounding like the usual plugins.
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