Illformed
Audio-visual experimentation by Kieran Foster
Glitch v1.3.05
Due to various stressful things going on in my RealLife™ over the past couple of years, it has been far too long since I was last able to work on Glitch, but I’m happy to announce that I’ve finally been able to spend some more time with it recently. At the moment I’m close to finishing a complete rewrite of the plug-in core itself, and although it will not have any major new feature additions (yet), it will be based on VST 2.4 and should be much more stable and efficient. More on that good stuff later!
In the meantime, I wanted to release this minor updated version 1.3.05 which fixes a few things that people have brought to my attention. The main issue was Glitch’s parameters not showing up correctly in Ableton Live 8′s configure mode, making it difficult (impossible?) to easily create custom mappings. I’ve tested this new version in the latest Live 8.1.1 demo and I can say that it seems to be working fine now (and that Live’s configure mode is pretty nifty!). This update should also take care of an annoying bug where the mouse cursor would sometimes get stuck in an invisible state after tweaking parameters in Glitch’s interface, which seems to have been an issue with the actual DIB Controls components I’ve been using for the knobs, buttons, etc.
Anyway… Speaking on a more personal level, it’s been awesome working on Glitch again after being away from it for so long, but the only reason I’ve been able to do so is because for the first time in years I’m not working a full-time job. As soon as I’ve released the rewrite that I’m currently working on, I would love to immediately focus on creating the next major version of the plug-in, and to continue developing some of the ideas that I’ve had for brand new features and effects. The reality is that life is not quite that simple, and in fact my financial resources are unfortunately very limited these days, so it’s difficult to say how much more time I can dedicate to Glitch as a freeware project. I do plan to begin selling some other plug-in ideas in the near future and hopefully generate some revenue that way, but it may be a little while before I can get that up and running.
For now, if you do use Glitch regularly and consider it to be a useful tool, and you want to see it survive as a project and be improved in the future, then please consider making a donation to show your support. Any amount is hugely appreciated, and could literally mean the difference between me being forced to put development on hold again, or being able to spend another month or two of solid coding and making a lot of important progress with it. I love audio development, and I really want to continue working on this thing and making it more badass, but I simply cannot do it without your support!
You can grab Glitch v1.3.05 from the usual place…
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24 responses to “Glitch v1.3.05”
Hi There! I had to switch to mac and if glitch would come to osx i definitely will be up for some donation. Is there a chance to get a port for any other platforms than win? hope so!!! (Sorry for my english. its getting worse and worse since i dont use it regurarly) cheers :::n3L
I second the MacOSX request. I loved this before I made the change and havent found anything nearly as good as Glitch for mangling my sounds.
Good stuff!
Glad you managed to get back on with the project, for whatever reason. It is always good to revive past work and improve in things!
Looking forward to testing this out, and also look forward to seeing what you have planned in the future.
Technical question; I am just getting into VST programming (using c++). Which SDK did you base this on? Was it 2.4? I am using that one at the moment.
Cheers!
Would love a Mac version of this plugin as I no longer use Win for my audio work and miss having the ability to use glitch in my studio :-(. Would happily pay for it, your work is appreciated
dblue, I waited years for the Mac Version, before I lost all hope and switched. Please please please OS X version and make it a paid version. It's been an all-time favourite plugin, which I haven't used in years : ( You can hire a Mac-based developer and then charge for the plugin. We shall/want to pay.
hi kieran,
nice to know you're back workin' on glitch!
i've just donated 'cause i use your plug a lot.
i'd really like to get all parameters at disposal for vst automation (mostly the three randomize puttern buttons…but even the de-click knob and the filter mode buttons)
hope you'll can do it in the future releases.
thanks for your great work
Im glad I caught this update on vstplanet.I changed computers and os recently and was starting over with some of the more esoteric plugs.The small download belies the quality put into this thing.Hours of fun .
Well, I think Christmas must have come early for me. This new version appears to work perfectly in Cubase 4!!
- The tempo is now syncing correctly
- The GUI shows up correctly and the plugin no longer seems to crash Cubase
I can't thank you enough!!!!
Fots
I've never used Glich, since I'm another mac user but I want to thank you anyway because I know this plugin has not only been responsible for so much music that I love, but it's also been an inspiration to the music community in general.
Thanks :)
and also, another vote for a mac port here
I would also love a Mac version of Glitch. However, rather than waiting for the port before giving a donation, I just sent a donation to help make that port actually happen. I recommend other Mac users do the same–especially those of you who have also used Glitch and know what you're missing.
Keep up the great work, Kieran!
PLLEEEASSSEE make this for Mac. Would gladly pay for a mac version. Haven't been able to use it since I switched to Logic. Maybe you could collab with someone who knows how to write mac code?
Oh my god wicked. I havent used glitch in ages, just loaded it up (the old one) in ableton 8. I was able to trick it to automate with my apc 40. Wicked fun, would crash ableton after a while though. This update should sort it out if the map functions work with it now. Man thank you so much, I've also become unemployed recently. Messin with this stuff helps keep me sane. I know it's not much but I will send ya twenty euros outta my dole man after I pay my rent at the end of the month. Cant wait to try the new version tommorow.
i just wanna make sure that this wont crash my win system? and if anyone can point me in the way of some forums for music mixing and whatnot.
Mich love kieran.
ooh an update!! i'll be checking it out. thanks for writing such great plugin in the first place!
Does this VST work with Magix at all???
i still have some problems with synchronizing the steps in live when using it over complexly routed trax ( grouping etc). i use custom drivers, but it does seem to be related to the audio buffers used for internal routing in the host… it is 80 ms (!) shifted backwards, that's a lot… i downloaded the very first version ( the one with the flanger) and there was a "timing" knob that solved my problem, and gave me new hints for further ideas…. could you please add it to the new or to the current version?
thanks
enrico
@ everybody else: don't switch to mac, apple is becoming a low quality brand!!
i switched to win xp.
Kieran, don't let the "Mac lover spam" get you down. You do what's right by you.
PS. DUDE I AM STOKED to hear you're opening this one up again!!! SERIOUSLY STOKED.
PS. Nice to hear you visited our fair city of TO! Hope you had a blast, some nice photos goin on.
One of the best Plugins EVER made !!! Thanx !!!!
Dblue just released the post and already tons of comments asking for a Mac Version.
I also use a Mac for music producing, and there is indeed nothing that could match Glitch on our Mac World.
Too bad.
But I think the guy doesn't want to work on it. Too bad, too.
But he made the point by saying that he has to deal with real life and money issues. Even if you release a Mac Version, how many will buy it ? I'll certainly do if it is not more than 50 $, but then it means that DBlue would have to recode the whole thing.
No idea of how much work that would involve, but if he's already struggling to survive while coding a Wndows-version (a potentially much bigger market), how should he manage to create a Mac version from scratch ?
The shame is that nobody never managed to create a decent mac software that could compete with Glitch. Ableton live is good, you can do the same thing (almost) but with less fun, as the UI is more generalistic (humm is this an english word…).
cheers
Thanks for the Update!
Thanks for your effort, Your the man. May tons of cash roll your way sooner than later.
Any one that reads this AND CAN, Donate some doenaro! If I was in a financial situation I DEFINITLY would too and will most DEFINITLY in the future! THANKS FOR THE UPDATE.. u pWn!!