glitch tricks, software, how?

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glitch tricks, software, how?

Post by lucien » Tue May 05, 2009 2:26 am

im looking into putting stuttering and glitchy sounds in my mix. telefon tel aviv sort of random weird changing things, mostly on drums. i know how to manually cut and paste but how do i do it live. what vsts or reaktor ensembles do i need. any help would be great.

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Re: glitch tricks, software, how?

Post by spiral » Tue May 05, 2009 4:06 am

beatrepeat in abelton
supatigga
if your on a pc then there is a free vst called Glitch which is good
on a mac give this a go
http://www.defectiverecords.com/majorma ... index.html

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Re: glitch tricks, software, how?

Post by Superchibisan » Tue May 05, 2009 4:21 am

audio damage automaton

zoom in real close and select the slice of audio you wanna glitch, then hit ctrl+d or apple+d. yay stuttering!

try using some of your vst effects and just fucking the sound really hard. then record the output, then stutter that. or something... fades.. junk... mess around, thats what glitch is about.

(personal fav, take the sound and run it through a really hot compressor to create distortion,t hen cut back and forth between the original sound and stuttered distorted sound... fun time)

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Re: glitch tricks, software, how?

Post by lucien » Tue May 05, 2009 6:55 am

yeah. im not really down with the beat repeat. thanks man, im gonna try some stuff tonite

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Re: glitch tricks, software, how?

Post by michaellpenman » Tue May 05, 2009 5:49 pm

just up abletons follow actions.
Set some reverses and FX time stretching

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Re: glitch tricks, software, how?

Post by Superchibisan » Tue May 05, 2009 10:43 pm

beat repeat is great for glitching...

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Re: glitch tricks, software, how?

Post by michaellpenman » Tue May 05, 2009 11:35 pm

Here is a very simple follow action glitch:
i have made a simple beat on the 606 (ableton), nothing special just an example of how to do it.
Now i freeze the track and drag to a free audio track
i went in saved the audio and named it on the system
after this i went to the launch setting and set legato, and global quantize ( this means what ever you main transport quantize), and set it to loop at 1 16th.
No copy the loop over like 10 clips.
change the start time the time stretching the warp makers, reverse etc.
also what i like doing is adding in random sounds to add some groove.


http://www.zshare.net/download/59636430d0d1804b/

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Re: glitch tricks, software, how?

Post by spiral » Wed May 06, 2009 2:41 am

also check out insta-jungle
does what it says on the label

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Re: glitch tricks, software, how?

Post by pepezabala » Wed May 06, 2009 7:03 am

Try also the free vst "Livecut".

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Re: glitch tricks, software, how?

Post by brycebsp » Wed May 06, 2009 4:40 pm

I second what Michaellpenman said...

Thats a great way to get wierd gltichy sounds... I use that method as well

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Re: glitch tricks, software, how?

Post by LoopStationZebra » Wed May 06, 2009 10:31 pm

There's also a very simple way to get glitchy/stuttering sounds. Just open the clip envelope and kill the volume every 1/4 or 1/8 or 1/16 note. You can vary these with dummy clips and use follow action to randomize the stutter dummy clip that's being utilized. Stick a filter on and modulate that using the envelope as well.
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Re: glitch tricks, software, how?

Post by buffalo » Thu May 07, 2009 7:51 am

lucien wrote:im looking into putting stuttering and glitchy sounds in my mix. telefon tel aviv sort of random weird changing things, mostly on drums. i know how to manually cut and paste but how do i do it live. what vsts or reaktor ensembles do i need. any help would be great.
In Reactor 5, Splitter, Vectory, L3, Travelizer, Randomstepshifter, GoBox are all good for getting glitchy sounds. From the User Library, sonictwist!'s ensembles are great. Some ensembles (Vectory) have noticeable delay so you'll have to adjust the track delay compensation in Live.

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Re: glitch tricks, software, how?

Post by theque » Sat May 09, 2009 3:10 am

you can get some nice sounds with these free babies

http://www.kammerl.de/audio/

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Re: glitch tricks, software, how?

Post by lucien » Sun May 10, 2009 3:23 am

yeah. ive used alot of these vsts. i mostly do them in arrangement view buy manually cutting but i was looking for something live. thanks fellas

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