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Intuitive and allows for user creativity…endless possibilities…Truly a unique plug-in!

are you going to make a mac version?

yeah..we need mac version… would be nice that its available for MAC :)
looks like nice plugin

WOW! I’ve tried several plugins/software in this category and this is a serious contender! Devine Machine, Beat Repeat, and Replicant watch out, this one’s going for the K.O. How’s about a MAC version????

Thanks for sharing your wonderful efforts Kieran! Although now I am having a hard time getting back to my OTHER work, cuz I can’t stop playing with glitch! Yeah!

I am definitely going to use Glitch with Konkrete Impulse live!

Cheers

Rob Herman
Konkrete Impulse

Underfull…Top plug. Let´s you really create.

Thaks for sharing.

who made this? or what company?
i cant believe its freeware

aLJar3d: I made it. That’s why it’s featured on my website :)

Thanks for all the comments everyone. As far as the Mac is concerned, I’m afraid I have to disappoint you for now. I simply do not have the resources or ability to make it happen yet, so there will be no Mac version appearing anytime remotely soon. My only intentions at the moment are to focus on what I’m already familiar with (ie. Windows), to continue developing Glitch into a more mature product, and to hopefully generate some business based around it. If things become more stable in the future then I will certainly do more research into other platforms, but right now I just can’t afford to have the extra distractions eating up my time.

Kieran: I know of a freeware plugin developer who commonly ports Windows VST plugins to Mac VST and AU. If you don’t have the resources to port to the Mac, maybe you could get in touch with them. I’m sure they’d be interested in helping you…

http://www.apulsoft.ch/

My advice… With Windows market share declining and Mac market share continually on the rise, (not to mention the disproportionately high level of Mac “creative types” i.e. musicians) I would seriously regard the OS X platform as more than just a “distraction.”

I support Travis’ opinion. It would be great if you could contact this developers for Mac and give them a try to make the mac version. Personally, I am electronic music artist and I know many famous names from scene that are using mac for production and gigs. It would be really nice to have this great plugin also available on mac :)

Guys… I appreciate your advice about the Mac market, and I totally understand that it’s important to have representation on multiple platforms, but please hear me when I say that it just isn’t feasible yet. I’m not just making up some crap to avoid the situation; I am genuinely not ready to make *any* kind of move to Mac yet. When I say “distractions” I’m not simply dismissing the entire Mac platform, so I’m sorry if you got the wrong impression there. What I mean is that Windows and Object Pascal are all that I feel comfortable working with right now, and I still have a lot of work to do before Glitch will be ready for other possibilities, so anything else I try to take on is just going to get in the way of my immediate goals.

The current version of the plug-in is still a very rough prototype in my eyes; full of stupid mistakes and limitations due to my inexperience when I started the project. I’m in the process of rewriting the entire thing from scratch because the old code is a complete nightmare to maintain. I’m not even going to *think* about handing anything over to another developer until I have a new, clean, and efficient code base to work with. I see no point in getting someone to port the current version when it is incomplete and will soon be obsolete anyway.

Wow! This is easily one of the most innovative, useful and functional tools I’ve ever seen! Congrats on the great work…
keep more vsts coming, please…

Thanks for sharing!

awesome, awesome plug-in man - i now feel a bit stupid for spending years of my life making drums sound like that through hours of waveform editing! now i’ve got a button i can press in logic that sends everything mental. cool!

how do you add it to fruity loops?
after adding it to vst-plugins, where do i find it or add it to fx?

Glitch is rocking my face off!!! Great work!

First, your plug is amazing. Fantastic work. Thanks a lot.
I just reformat my computer and stupidly I forgot to keep your timestrech and your downgrader ( the one that change the quality ). I can’t find them anymore on the web. I like them because they are simple ( a few buttons ) and I used them in my live set. I still use your glitch and I know that the timestrech and downgrader are integrated but I really like to have them also seperatly.

Is it possible to have them again ( please, please, please ) ?

Thanks a lot, and I am really impress by your coding and sound skills.

TM

Heres a link to a track I recorded some time back using Glitch: http://audiosparx.com/sa/play/play.cfm/sound_iid.253961

Woulda let you know before but I only just stumbled upon your site :-)

OMG! Perfect work! I will use it on my LP for vocal in some places! Thanx!

This is definitely one of the coolest plugins I’ve ever had the joy of downloading. This thing is Alec Empire’s “The Destroyer”, rolled into a single plugin.

Absolutely brilliant.

realy good fx and sound. i’m using it a week now and i LOVE IT…………

keep up the good work.

been usin ableton for my productions for some time, and mess a lot with the Beat Repeat for those stuttering glitchy type fx… but this is in a whole different league and will defo appear in my new work..
many thanks for this great tool!!

Z
http://www.myspace.com/djzimbardo
http://www.myspace.com/benchmarc

ths platform is F_ING!! awesome! i have used it in friends studios and heard a lot of work only made better from GLITCH! but unfortunately this program is unavailable to me (as i am a mac user) but does any know of any other really good free platforms for the mac? anything similar or anything at all i.e. drum machine, sequencers, anything? thanks for the help!

hey kieran. im having trouble finding the info about midi mapping.
there are some parameters already mapped by default when i turn knobs on my m-audio controller, but im having trouble reassigning it the way i want. i read something on your site before about right clicking the parameter to highlight it, but its still not working for me. please help.
sorry. im very sure this is a redundant question.
thanks again.

Glitch is an amazing plugin,its great i use it for most of my productions.

Great work guys keep it up.

Digital Bass.

Really impressive !! And you are giving this for free ?? I’m without the words …

Hey I really dont blame the guy….Mac is a completely different beast than PC. I really like the older version of Glitch as well….sort of an orange and black look to it….Wonder if he made that one as well….something about drawing those colors seems more distracting than reading what the effect is in text.
Biggest Glitch in Glitch (pun intended) is it doesnt stay on when you start up a new project. Really bugs me to have to go in and turn on all the instances of Glitch again. Oh that and it likes to eat up my cpu for lunch. Besides that its awesome!

Btw Kieran if you need a beta tester for any new versions I am willing and ready to help out. I use it often enough.

Hey there,
Been using this plug for some time now, and I must say hands down the best freeware plug around!
That said, I’ve been running into some timing issues when I moved from CubaseSX3 on XP to Cubase4 on Vista. The same projects have different glitch results (not set to random of course), as in the timing is screwed.
Anyone else experienced the same things?

Tnx!

Only comments I have to that is ditch Vista!!!
Stick to XP sp2 for writing music.

Hey! I just recently found this plugin on youtube and all over the net, it looks AMAZING! I really want to use it for a few upcoming projects not to mention live!! I just downloaded the plugin but i cant get it to work on my FL setup… it keeps saying that it cannot load an effect in a channel… is this because ive got an older version of FL? I;m running Image-Line FL6, someone please help! I really want this vsti!!

Thanks

-Grem
TMC

:))))))))
GREM….
you silly wanker…

dblue Glitch is not a VSTi… it’s a VSTfx (effect, not an instrument)

it goes into the mixer… you can’t just add it as a channel
- it doesnt generate sound, it modulates sound

so you gotta pass audio through it

open the mixer and add it as an effect !!!

I want this sooo badly for my mac as an AU plugg !!
Please let me know!
Alex

please….

mac version !

very very nice vst ! i must say, ive been struggling to get this stuff done manually, and this vst just does everything for me so easily. maybe the ppl ive heard with glitch in their songs are actually using this vst :O hahaha

this is a high end plug… thank you soooo much for putting it out here for us to use… I only have a macbook pro, but programs like this i cant do without… luckily I have Parallels and bootcamp… thx again…

Albert Joseph

anybody know how to map this to a midi device?

Brett: Make sure MIDI is enabled in your host and is routed into Glitch itself (how to do this varies from host to host, obviously). To activate MIDI learn in Glitch simply right-click on a knob/button/etc. When MIDI learn is active you’ll see a white border appear around the control you selected, then you need to tweak something on your MIDI controller (which sends MIDI CC data) to assign it. If the assignment was successful the white border will disappear and the control in Glitch will begin to respond. To delete a MIDI assignment you need to right-click on a control, then right-click again without touching your MIDI controller. Pretty much all of the important stuff can be mapped, but depending on which host you’re using it may be easier to map the parameters directly with the host’s native functions rather than with Glitch’s MIDI learn. As with all things in the plug-in, MIDI is an area I plan to improve greatly in the coming versions.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

My PC is making some f’ing amazing sounds. This is some sort of black magic.

I say Kieran should get the Nobel Prize.

NEEDS MO4R MAC COMPATIBILITY!!!!
guess im just going to have to run it off of VMware Fusion lol lame

NEEDS MORE MAC COMPATIBILITY on February 7th, 2008 at 03:07 am

hey there, glitch sounds great-, love it… but what about a manual? always been a RTFM dude…:)

This Plug in is brillent……squarepusher in a box….to make a good track still requires talent but this sure does help!! Great work! N

i cant open it..what do i do?

hey kieran, i sent you an email a while back asking for help getting glitch to run on a mac, and now i want to apologize for that email probably being one of thousands you’ve received on the topic. You’ve definitely got a large following to this puppy and i congratulate you for it man. I very much wish you luck and hope you work all the bugs out of the system and are eventually happy with the coding so that you can consider porting it to mac, as - and i hate to harp on - im fairly certain we’ll all have to hunt you down with pitchforks if you dont sometime in the next 5 years. jokes jokes. For a brilliant piece of programming such as this, i am prepared to wait, and i am very excited to see the end result. Im sure many of the posters here also, wouldn’t mind paying a small to medium fee for purchase of any future mac version. free is good though, free is awesome. just giving you a little incentive. ha. best of luck man. you’re the most wanted man in music.

yo again, ive just spent the last 15 minutes searching other forums and posts on this topic, so now i apologize again for seemingly being the millionth person who has offered money and whatnot. i read your statement on the ableton forum. honestly best of luck man. you must have some ridiculously awesome day job to halt you from making squillions on the net from one plugin. haha. ill be back here every day for the next few years waiting for v2. good luck dude.

AMAZING PLUG!
Please port to MAC, must have soon…
Great Job

many of my friends laugh at me for choosing PC over Mac, i tell them theres more good free VSTs on PC and they tell me free stuff is shit, then i wave this plugin at them and feel happily vindicated. please dont port this to Mac!!!

WOOW !!!! GREAT PLUG !!!!

HI DBLUE,

I just downloaded the plug in the other day and it’s probably the most important creative plug that I own now.. I can’t believe I spent 7 1/2 hours on it… It doesn’t get boring.

Mark

hey, can somebody please tell me how to add it exactly as an effect on fl s…
i still can’t get it worked, and i’m getting really pissed.
would really love to get started with this plugin.
i can’t figure it out…

gtz auduzi

Love it but….Not avalable 4 MAC????!!!

shut up about MAC.. you got it ALL on the MAC anyway! use that multi OS thing and setup bindows on your MAC and then you cun use glitch on your MAC!! fu*king MAC… they do ALL the legwork, they write the fucking songs for you on the MAC….they create the graphics in about 5 clicks.. NO skills required on the MAC using logic or pro-tools or uhh garage band!

I want make Something similar от my Modular G2. You could not help me detailed description of these effects??? Thanks

I Love It.. You should be awarded..!!
Thanx for this amazing plugin…

Hello Kieran, is there a way to tempo-syncronize Glitch with one’s VST-sequencer? Best wishes, Wolf

Wolf: It should do that automatically. Which host are you using?

A friend made me watch the demo for Glitch on youtube a few months back… he said I would LOVE it. I am fairly new to making beats and working with all this music software… I am working only from Reason and have some crazy delicious funky beats that would become soooooooooo hot if i could mess with it in glitch. i have a pc as well… but there is no music programs on there… ive been reading and reading and im still confused… can someone help me? i cant wait till i can figure this out… kieran you are a god!! :)

where can i get the previous version of glitch like 1.2.2

Hi! :(

I don’t know why but this VST makes serious crashes in CUBASE 4???
I have mail U about this before…. Friends of mine have the same problem!!!
It won’t open? I would love to use it but I can’t? I don’t even know how U even made a VST program that makes this kind of errors and crashes? The GUI doesn’t even open either?
Your VST make CUBASE 4 crash instant and CLOSE CUBASE 4.1.2!!!!

WARNING!!!!!!!!
Users with CUBASE 4!!! Be aware that this VST might make your Computer hang and crash seriously!!!! I hate to say this but this VST is not supported in CUBASE 4!!!!

Digital Junkie Ive got the earlier version of it. A few of the effects are different in it and for some reason I slightly prefer the older version. Let me know if you still need it.

try a difefrent stuff! glitch reduces the way to learn effects functionality and audio edit…thats my opinnion.

For all those Mac users out there…. take a look at “Major Malfunction:

http://www.defectiverecords.com/majormalfunction

Says its for Ableton Live only, but it actually works fine as an AU in many other apps too…

Hello guys,
it seems that glitch could work on a mac. My brother used it simply with ableton live 6 and it works fine. Just put the same dll as the windows one into your vst folder and perhaps there is a chance i personnaly don’t have a mac so I dont now precisely what todo …

antipanik.

O.O

Cool.

Kieran,
just reminding you not to over-design the new thing :)

cheers
g.

Anyone else agree that if there was a Pay for Mac UB version they’d be up for it?

I’d definitely make a purchase as there is nothing as good as this currently for OSX

g/eesn: Heh, I’ll try to keep it under control.. PS. Love your music :)

what an amazing beast… =)

it’s a pity, that this piece of software is designed to run only under windows. but i know the difficulties about porting software to another platforms. i also write software in delphi, for example my cpc emulator: http://www.wincpc.ch is entirely written in delphi. porting your plugin to mac will result in a complete rewrite… aarrgggh.

i switched to mac a few weeks ago, fortunately my “old” windows music computer is still active. =)))

thumbs up

GSUS CRIST!

Thank you, this is freakin amazing, the MIDI learn is such an awesome feature…why aren’t you working for one of the bigs? You should be, you could teach them a thing or 100 about how to create something that is simple and user friendly..cheers from the great white north.

Please, make an Mac version!!!

Seems like a cool plug-in. Sounds awesome.

Please make it possible for Mac users to have it.

first - great plug. i am a mac user and am not here to say “please make for mac, yadda yadda…” i have a windoze partition for web testing and have music apps on there as well - gotta see what’s on the other side of the fence too ;^)

people - there are ways to achieve very similar, if not the same, effects without a specific plugin. first, there is reaktor with its library PLUS the user library. second, there is livecut and with some good automated controlling, that plugin can be really nice. third is ableton itself (for those that use ableton). with clip launch settings, follow actions and varying start points, sample playback speeds and transpositions, you can come up with very cool stuff.

it’s all about the way you get there.

qu.one

i should also say that i didnt mean to draw anyone away from this plug - just trying to alleviate the mac thing…

qu

Thanx this bluggo is rocking,,,
You can hear it in the backgroud loop on my Site,,,,,
http://www.trigitaliz.com

KEEP ON ROCKING ING ING ING TJTJTJTJ ING

Lovely work with your plug!!!

Absolulely brilliant plugin…. this has to be the best fx plugin i have ever used, great work kieran

amazing. it’s a shame you don’t intend to build a mac version…

mac! mac! mac!

^___^

Really really awesome!! It is quite incredible that a certain DIGItal sound DESIGN company is selling a plugin for $395 that cannot even begin to compete with this?

WELL DONE!!!

bootcamp. i think the guy’s aware of the mac issue by now, i’m sure if he could he would.

beautiful plugin! sadly, very unstable in ableton :(
…i want to dj with it… but do not trust it yet. props on the work though!
ps. - hope you get a more stable ver soon

A really great tool. Thanks a lot. It helps me make music that i feel is better.

Thanks again mate.

This looks fantastic Kieran, Mac version pleeeeeeeeese !!

Kieran,

Thanks for the great plugin. It is definitely in my
top 10 plugs of all time. I mean that sincerely and genuine.
You’re right up there with the VSTi ABL2 by Audiorealism.
[303 clone that blows ReBirth out of the geyser!]
I definitely appreciate the plugin for all that it is. Perhaps
the foul coding that you slave your brain over when you think
upon it is a feature and not a bug. :) Think about how much
richer, warmer, and organic anologue synths can sound compared
to digital. Perhaps glitchy sourcecode add to the thing itself.
Just a mental meandering for you.
Hey guys… lay off hounding him to do a Mac and whatnot.
I definitely understand the frustration, but you are getting
some good VST’s for IDM and glitch coming out now too. This
guy’s only got so much time in his day, just like we do. I certainly
understand the time constraints in this world with all that we
are bombarded with in the information realm each day. It’s
serious Future Shock [excellent modern philosophy on the
seemingly increasing speed of culture and society as a whole.
See book by Toffler].
Kieran, is there a way to copy the preset settings on the
Glitch, and paste them? Say… copy preset 1 to preset 2?

-Randy Colby
aka Wreckless Abandon

Hey Kieran in your next version could you go back to making the edits with little blocks of text on a grid as opposed to the color blocks on the grid?
btw I love your plugin and always use it in my music.
http://www.myspace.com/liquidloops

OK so I’ve been running this Glitch VSTfx in ableton and am loving it, works great for mashing up melodies as well as it does for beats….

Just one problem, I’ve linked the pattern selector to one of the x/y controls in ableton and laid everything out for export to audio. Then when I render to disk the FX I’ve made with the Glitch VST doesn’t come through…

Why?! Its’ driving me nuts!! Any advice would be extremely well appreciated.

I would pay good money for a mac-version in AU and/or RTAS-format. (Yeah, I know… keep working on cleaning up that code…)

I’ve played with a lot of VST’s I’s or fx ;) And i’m damn picky on what to use now. And i’m not one for posting. But this is so good i had to say something. I’m very grateful for this. Its a very good peice of engineering. I loaded it up put it with some string samples, played with it, got a great sound out of it. I haven’t been able to make any music lately, but this got me very inspired. I had the idea of this been intergrated to spectrasonics Omnisphere thats coming out. Maybe you’ve already connected with them ;).

Again, top notch!!

Para

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE…….PLEASE do a MAC version I would pay good money for this!!

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A mac-version would indeed be extremely appreciated. And a proper fee is defenitly worth considering. Of course on an intelbased mac it would be possible to run an application both under OSX and windows, but that usually requiers extra installs etc.

Anyway: great job, and keep up the spririt!

A fantastic creation, please make a Mac version too and keep up the good work!

IT’S TRULY AMAZING :D this really is a very good and easy2understand plugin :D

Could I make a single suggestion for the plugin?
Could you implement a feature which would let me toggle off specific effects during the random mode? For example I want to have my loops play with random effects, BUT I don’t want modulation or tape-stop. Is there already a way to do that?

biosyn: You can set the probability parameter for each effect to make it more/less likely to be chosen at random. You can find the parameter just below the effect name, next to Init, Rand, Solo, etc., and it defaults to a value of 50. Set it to 0 and that effect will never be chosen at random. Set it to a higher value in relation to the others and it will be chosen at random more often. Etc.

Kieran, is there a way to copy and paste the presets?
(So I don’t have to recreate the same one all over again
just to make a subtle progression).

What programs specifically are recommended for this plugin?

What are the best programs to use this with? I tried to use it in vegas to see if it would work with an audio track of a video I was working on but while the plugin was said to be compatible when I applied it it didnt effect the audio despite it being applied :(

Could somebody plz explain to me what “Len” does under “Envelope” of the old version of Glitch?
For the life of me I cannot figure it out.

Sorry I think it might actually be “Lens” ?? Not sure….my vst’s are on another drive that I dont have access to right now.

The envelope applies a very basic volume fade to each step in the sequencer, which you can use to create interested gating effects. “Len” simply adjusts the length of the envelope, or in other words, how fast the volume fades out.

Wow….simply amazing…. :)

Q: all the commands are MIDI assignable to knobs? I’m going to buy a M-Audio Evolution UC 33, and i want to use Glitch in live session….can i have support, please?

Q2: Single modules are disposable separately? If don’t, please develop it!!!!

Thanx again for keeping ur stuffs free!

well hot damn old man, you’re on fire!

lawls to the slew of mac requests.

gj ninja!

Great! :)

I use it from the first version till now (of course with that name!), it simply has something that others in the same league doesn’t have, but I also prefer the way the fx section sounds in the older version (1.2.1).

–Glitch

Absolutely,
Older version is both easier to use and sounds better imho.

hi kieran,

thanks a lot for the great toy, i have so much fun fun fun fun….. ;-)

ps: midi learn would be a nice feature in this tool

Great VST!

I understand if this question sounds annoying, but… Will Glitch compile on the Linux VSTSDK?
I’d love to use it in combination with renoise you see.

Is there a standalone version of this for PC?

Haha,

I think if there is one more MAC comment, he’s gonna lose his patience and shut this page down!

On a final note,

MAC!

c super!!!!

I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this, but in the latest issue of Ravin-Eye magazine, internationally known hardcore producer DJ Gammer wrote a very helpful producing tips article, focusing mainly on the amazing Glitch VST. Its great to know that such godly producers as Gammer use this awesome tool!

Thought you guys might find that interesting lol

Thanks again Kieran!

-Grem

fantastic! any chances of this plug being fashioned as an audio unit for macs?

Kieran any chance you bringing back the flanger in future versions? In fact go all out man!! Have like 20 effects to choose from! A nice bit crusher, phaser, flanger, distortion, and maybe even an lfo would be interesting. Cheers to the great plug!

Very handy plugin indeed. Though as you say it’s not the stablest thing in the world. Unfortunately when I try to really get the most from it - it crashes Ableton Live on me :( Tying to automate pattern changes in it is one in particular that always caused it to crash.

can’t wait to see the new cleaned up version if this is just the prototype.

Love the plug-in, thanks for giving it away! :]

Anyone know of a plugin like glitch that instead of using on a sequencer you can trigger each effect live on different controllers? I know this can be done with Ableton Live and Reaktor 5 without using plugins. I want something for FL Studio or a vst…

Anyone?

Please Im dieing for an answer! Get back to me here > noizviolation24@yahoo.com or http://www.myspace.com/thedebra

Hi Kieran

Glitch is out of this world as far as useability and simplicity. But its only PC (lol “not another person whinging” you say!)
I have read some of your postings in response to the Glitch porting to Mac. I am currently in discussion with some developers about either porting the source code from your Glitch if you would like to work with me on this, or creating a new version entirely.

I am also interested in expanding the features of the device to make it a one-stop Live performance tool for dj’s and producers. If you would like to respond to my email, I would be very eager to talk with you at the most convenient time for you.

Kind regards,

Adam

W0w, I’ve discovered glitch almost a year ago and I’m still being amazed by how strong it is, it turns a banality into something crazy in a few seconds, and if you take the time to carrefully customize glitch, you can reach your own unique sound!

all you need now is a mac version!

MAC!!!!!! MAC!!!!!! MAC!!!!!! MAC!!!!!! MAC!!!!!! MAC!!!!!! MAC!!!!!! MAC!!!!!! MAC!!!!!! MAC!!!!!!

I realise that you like the plug-in, guys, but shouting “MAC! MAC! MAC!” isn’t gonna make it happen any faster, it’s just gonna get very annoying. Please read what I have already said on this matter:
http://illformed.org/blog/glitch/#comment-47
http://illformed.org/blog/glitch/#comment-51

Hello there.

I just swtiched to a Mac from a PC and I am so disappointed that there is no MAC version of this VST, that was my most favorite! Can you please please please port this to a Mac version. And I’m not trying to annoying just expressing how wonderful your VST is, and there are many musicians going to macs. I’m got it because I’m about to start doing live performance, and I couldn’t have a PC that crashes 24-7.

I would like you to hear your VST in the works in my song spite, its at my Myspace. Grr. I need this beautiful VST.

http://myspace.com/breathehope

i agree with d lucchini…we are just showing our feelings re: an amazing plug you’ve created. i do use it on my pc and have it werking in cubase SX2, but my pc is a piece. i can just imagine how slick this plug would be on a mac.

but i had forgot to say thanks for such a sweet tool in my haste to ask for a mac v.

so….thanks much. fantastic job!

Kieran ignore them all….MAC sucks!!
You ppl need to realize that all this hype about making music on a mac is nonsense. There are SOOOO many more vst’s available for PC that it seems pointless to use a mac. Glitch is just yet another example.

Attention Mac Users: I used to run one but the fact is you CAN and WILL get much better freebie VSTs for PC. As well as this you can get Short circuit 1 + 2 VST sampler which is undoubtedly the best soft sampler on the market. Beats the crap out of Halion Kontakt and all the rest AN D ITS FREE JUST LIKE THIS EXCELLENT PLUGIN. I could laugh and try and belittle you, but I wont as I know how it feels looking on to the PC users all envious. The reason i went to PC is you can get anything for it. There is nothing in Mac world you cant get for PC but theres plenty on PC you cant get for mac.

AT the end of the day my music writing was MUCH MORE IMPORTANT than worrying about what computer and OS I used. think about it whats important to you?

So give the guy a break he cant be building plugs for MAC, this stuff takes thousands of man hours and its better he irons out some of the small issues rather than working on a Mac version because Ive seen it to many times when an indie developer gets sidetracked developing for both platforms. We all end up losing then because the plugin development goes at snail pace and ultimately the plugs get watered down.

Hopefully, you’re still taking ideas for your plugin, and I had already mentioned layering effects and a device-chain type setup to control what effects are triggered first, if layering happens.

Anyway, I found the Disable Transport function very useful for before I discovered I had to configure Glitch as a tempo-based effect in Cakewalk Project5. However, it gave me an idea. Would it be possible to enhance the transport and make it automated? For instance, backwards, pause, and forward buttons. So, it would still be possible for it to start automatically, but then you could go backwards or forwards in your sequence, or pause at an effect for a longer duration.

It’s make me freak out!!!

Another one here wanting to congratulate you on this amazing piece of work! Back in the ReCycle days I never used plugins like this - but THIS is IT!

By the way, do you know this record… discogs.com/release/185636 - Perhaps you should send the band (actually and sadly, the one remaining band member) a copy! ;-)

Finally, don’t let them talk you into wasting time on building a Mac version from scratch - focus on what’s already there!

BIG thanks!

Hi, I’m very new to this technology and own a mac. I was wondering if there are plug-ins similar to this one for mac–even though everyone has expressed that this program is much better than any mac-based program, I’d still like to know of even mediocre or dated (free) mac plug-ins.

Lovely!
Time well spent on your part!
Thank You Kindly!

firstly…thank you, Kieran, for providing the world with such a versatile, amazing tool! I’ve been using it for some time, but just got around to comment. Secondly, being primarily a mac user, the way around this issue is obviously creating WAV files of effected parts on my PC, and transferring into Ableton on the Mac…a bit time consuming, but with a plug-in this useful, it’s worth the effort!
Again, thank you!

Hi Kieran,
Just another message to say THANKS!!!
I discovered Glitch a few days ago and it’s what i’ve been searching for for years… it’s an amazing thing which is very userfriendly… great for live tricks or for programming…
However, sometimes it craches Ableton Live 7 when doing things on the GUI and the midi learn fonction doesn’t work when you’ve got another midi plug in the track…

There are few things to work on and this plug will be perfect!!!!

Thanks again for this one and for sharing it free!

a bientôt
Vinz

Thanks for the great noiss plugin!
Sound great,easy to use.

Maybe you can make more shit like this.
Something like Izotope Trash.

ya man…like I said before, I got this baby working in my “Muse Receptor”!
so that means I can use it with my mac…and with protools 7.4 too (vst-2-rtas).
runs smooth.
much props

Great plugin!! I’ve been searching from months for something like this one.

Can You add feature that allow to turn off the sequencer and play effects manually from triggers?? It vould be nice for live playing to turn on effect in the moment when You want it, without setting it in seq.

P.S: sorry for my english.

ooohhh yes. been waiting for something like this for a long time! bring on the glitching :)

must say well done to ya, and fair play to going to all the trouble.

You guys should be more patient, Kieran obviously knows that he has a great product here but it needs perfection. And perfection takes time, especially if you wanna do it right. So in stead of screaming for “mac mac mac!” you should give him some constructive critisism to perfect Glitch even more. It would not only motivates him but will make all his efforts worth while.
Kieran, keep up the good work and I will definetely wait for Glitch to mature. Goodluck on rewriting the code!

This is fantastic. I will pay once it’s final. You should add an Audio demo which shows Glitch using a melodic figure.

Kieran I had another idea for the next version.
Ive noticed from time to time I was to switch back and forth between to different speed of gates and the only way to achieve this is either lowering the speed of the retrigger and alternating between that and the gate or of course having a duplicate of the track and running 2 seperate instances of Glitch.
I think it would be sweet if you had a double up of each effect with different parameters for each.
That way if I want to go back and forth between 2 different speeds of Gate or whatever effect I can.
I suppose using automation would be another way of doing this as well however.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE……..THE MAC VERSION!!!

PLEASEEEEEE

MAC
MAC
MAC VERSION!!!

Holy shit MAKE THIS FOR AU ON MACCCCCC!!!!!

OK ALL YOU MAC PEOPLE who have been whinging about not having this on here… The time has finally come - THIS REALLY IS THE MOMENT YOU HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR!! ;)

Check out SUGAR BYTES ‘EFFECTRIX’ - It’s the closest thing to Glitch you’re gonna get so far… and it’s a plugin (not standalone)
It’s not freeware but it’s worth every penny… and there’s a demo you can play with!
No more need for exporting GLITCH’d up loops from the old PC. This is the one I promise

Respect to Kieran Foster for making one of the most inspirational bits of software in the last few years!

PS I don’t work for or know anyone at Sugar Bytes but I so happy to finally get this that I thought I’d better let y’all know… and I’m sure it will stop everybody bothering Kieran with the same old comments - Andy

Dude…. you are a legend.
ive been using this for the last week for a variety of differnt styles and effects, eg: layering a few in a send for different retrigs!
brilliant plugin and i will be keeping a keen eye on the new one you release for sale. Thanks again dude. Much respect.

kickass plugin!

even daft punk uses it in live shows. fucking awesome!

you should open some donating system, think people would really give some money for this.

fuckin hell, ive been havin mental block for ages now, i even re-built my studio and did some diy acoustic stuff, none helped me with my block. then this came along….. ive just tried it out 10 min ago and my heart is pumping very fast, the doors are starting to open now, thank very much you have really helped me out.

A million thanks for this wondeful and really useful plug-in :)
Don’t hesitate to give me a mail , i will send you a donation to support your work ;)

All the best from france !

Hi,

Your plugin is awesome — many thanks for creating it. One trouble I ran into when using it my sequencer (Tunafish) is that Glitch will loop after the first four beats, even if I have a piece of music with 16 beats in it. Any help if possible would be greatly appreciated; thank you once again for this very exciting plugin.

Hi Kieran

Does the Glitch plug-in work with Cakewalk Sonar? I’m running Sonar 6 Producer Edition and have installed Glitch v1.3.04 but nothing seems to happen when I attach the plug-in to an Audio track as an Audio FX. Am I doing something stupid or is Glitch just not compatible with Sonar?

Many thanks
Matt

Matt you have to turn it on. Its a button in the upper left called transport I believe.

Actually, in Sonar you can just open the VST properties and configure it as a tempo-based effect then it’ll follow Sonar’s transport. It works the same way in Project5.

Oh I have to turn it on? Ha ha ha!

Thanks mate. There is a button called ‘Disable Transport’ which, when selected, makes the plug-in work in Sonar!

Actually you’re right again. I’ve changed the plug-in properties so that the ‘Configure as tempo-based effect’ is selected and now the plug-in works without needing to change the ‘Disable Transport’ setting.

Thanks again!

Matt

Now that I’ve got the plug-in working, is there a tutorial or user guide anywhere?

hey, just wanted to say that Glitch is the shit! One thing though, in cubase sx3, if you ise 48/24 it’s a bit buggy. It works, although you need to restard the project often after inserting it, to see the GUI…
I’m sure this is a known bug, just wanted to add my little report….

Hi there. Great plugin!!! In Windows times i loved it!!!
I’m also missing a MAC version, so i tried to search an alternate solution.
You have to pay for it, but it also works on all platforms: EFFECTRIX

http://www.sugar-bytes.de/content/products/Effectrix/index.php

Love glitch. A mac version would be nice…

Very cool VST. I’ve used this quite allot and I’m amazed at what it can do! Good software.

Hi,
in Samplitude 10, i can not automate glitch.
When i touch a controller, samplitude write an automation curve, but glitch don´t receive.

Badass Pluggin!
It almost should be classified as a VSTi due to all the performance capabilities…

HOLY COW! You made this?! i’m very impressed! you should be a millionare allready!

this looks amaazing. you’ve done some things i’d LOOVE TO DO!
mannn

but…im sad! for some reason it aint working….WHYYYYYY!

please help me. someone….

when i scan it and select it after adding more channels it says “an instance of FL is allready running”

and when i select it it says “CANNOT LOAD EFFECT INTO CHANEL”

also..when i scan it… Kieran Foster’s amazing infention is in red…..tthat dont look to good.

Kieran Foster help me! I would be honored to use your invention!!!!

Hey Kieran!

First of all i just wanna say wot a fuckin awesome plug..and dont worry i aint gonna ask for a Mac version! Only problem is that ive tried on several occasions to download the plug from this page,but when i open it with winrar it always says “corrupt file” is this a common problem for anybody else? and is this the only place i can download it? Its just a little frustrating cuz ive been dying to use this plug but to no avail.

I’m willing to help you develop a mac version of this if you could send me the source code. What language did you use?

Matthew:

I do appreciate your (and everyone else’s) offer to help but, I’m sorry, I’m not going to simply give out the source code to a complete stranger. I may be releasing this particular version of the plug-in for free, but it is not an open source project, and it does not automatically mean that I am willing to share my code with the world. But all of that is really beside the point anyway…

As I have already stated here in previous comments (scroll up, all my comments are highlighted in blue), this version is just a rough prototype. It is unfinished, buggy, and needs to be *completely* redesigned from scratch, so it would be a total waste of time to port this version to any other platform since it is fundamentally flawed to begin with. On top of that, Glitch is written in Object Pascal using Borland Delphi, not C++ as most people assume, so it would not be a simple case of tweaking a few things and recompiling, it would literally require the whole thing to be rewritten. Once again, at this stage of development there’s no point.

The bottom line is that I will not be tackling the cross-platform issue properly until I have a completely rock solid version on Windows first. I know Windows, I know Delphi, I am comfortable with them and I work faster using them, so that is what I will continue to work with until I feel happy with the state of the plug-in. When I finally have a more complete, stable and bug-free product, only then will I feel comfortable enough to take it further; either by handing it over to another experienced developer that I have built up trust with, or by doing it myself if I feel up to the task.

If you are still genuinely interested in possibly helping out at some point in the future, and if you have enough experience working with both Object Pascal and C++, then feel free to send me more info about yourself and what sort of cross-platform projects you’ve worked on, etc. I will no doubt reach a point where I need help from other developers, but right now I’m only focused on getting the Windows version up to snuff.

many many thanks ::: For sure, your name will make histoty man :: congratulations!

I’ve been using Glitch in my music for a good while now and I also use it to create sound FX. It’s a perfect tool and I’m happy I found it in the internet jungle.

First i just want to thank you for the effort Kieran. Still keeping Glitch free when it’s used by so many serious composers/producers/DJ’s is quite unusual In today’s money-hungry software creating world. Thousand thanks wouldn’t be enough! :)

Now to my question.
Have you seen the Sugar Bytes Effectrix? —>> http://www.sugar-bytes.com/
Looks a bit like a rip-off…or are you involved in the progress?
Anyway, my question is: are you considering creating a “multitrack” interface?

Once again, many thanks for a great job done so far.

Hi, ive seen what this plug-in can do, ive installed it into my VST folder and Fruityloops can see it, but when i try add Glitch, it gives me a message ”cant load an effect into a channel”, what am i doing wrong? thanks

look for someone who can help you to put it on a mac, if you’re not able to do that alone!
forgot property and money, think at all smiles that you will creat on macuser faces !

Glitch is my favourite FX plug in and i would really appreciat e a MAc version of it.

I’d be more then willing to buy a commercial verion of this FX powerhouse.

I use FL Studio, and Glitch works great until I try to automate pattern switching. It works, but not for long. Eventually it causes the program to hang, and I have to start up at my last save. I hope this can be fixed because Glitch is one of the best plugins that I’ve come across. Keep up the great work.

hey boys / girls!

soon an alternative version of GLITCH for mac/win in the REAKTOR USER LIBRARY!

all the best

;)

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@All: Kieran commented on the Mac status below.

REAL shame though!! But, is it possible that anyome else has the skills to help him (and thus, us) out? Can’t be too much work if your into Mac programming to convert it, can it? It would be awsome beyond words!

whoops, I thought the top comments were the latest. seems this has been discussed already. my bad, sorry…

It’s so good now i can make so many different beats, good luck
;)

Any news on how progress on the next version is coming along? Or is it still mostly in the planning stages?

Candle Nine: When I have proper news I will post it :)

Overall, not much has changed in the Glitch world since my “Welcome” post. At that point (towards the end of January) I was busy planning my move from Norway back to the UK, finishing up things at my day job, tying up loose ends, generally being stressed out, etc. I moved back here to the UK at the end of February and have spent the last month or so just organising random things, digging stuff out of storage, finding myself a new place to live, continuing to be stressed, etc. I’ve written tiny bits of code here and there, but I’ve really been too pre-occupied to get any serious work done so far. I realise that time must drag by slowly for all you guys who are waiting to see updates to the plug-in, and how frustrating that must be, but for me the days and weeks are just flying by ridiculously fast… I can’t believe it’s April already!

Anyway, the whole point of this big change in my life was specifically to give myself more time for Glitch and other personal projects. I’ve made the move now and I should be settling into my new place in a few days. It might take me a little while to build up my momentum again, but I’m gonna be focusing on Glitch pretty much fulltime now with no distractions, so I’m *really* excited to finally get back into it! I think things should move along pretty nicely once I’m locked away in my room with a big case of RedBull :)

I’d be prepared to drop some serious coin for a Mac version.

Daddy Tryptamine on April 7th, 2008 at 21:46 pm

Great news Kieran ! I’ve just found your plugin, and I must admit that it’s the best live music modification tool I’ve ever seen ! Thats what I’ve been looking for for years !

Thank you very much, and keep up the great work, I know developping softwares are a huge work, but when you have the chance to find a great idea you should not give it up ;)

Excellent. We’ll all have to be patient then. ;) Can’t wait!

By the way, I’m doing a design concept of my idea for Glitch to have a step sequencer with layered effects, advanced transport, and a signal path, and how to make it work in the interface. So, I was wondering if it would be okay to send it to you to look at. Yes?

Awesome plug-in!! Nice demo vid too. Do you know of any issues with Glitch and Protools LE 7.1. I am using FXPansion to rtas to convert to vst. It sees it and can open it, but my system starts locking up, bad. Hard reboots each time. I have enough processing power so im not sure if maybe its the particular wrapper im using. Any thoughts on this? Thanks a bunch.

its nice to see a plug in eliminate all that time i use to spend finding things to glitch and solder all the tiny patches and switches. thank you this is awesome but everyone is right it needs to be on mac.

Kieran, it’s great to hear you are planning to make Glitch a priority. If you can, please focus on Cubase 4 compatibility in the next version since it doesn’t work in there at all, usually crashes or similar. I think if you use the VST 2.4 base, you should be a lot more compatible with lots of hosts :)

I’m still not using Cubase 4 since I can’t live without Glitch.

I have coded some C++ and a little in Pascal (at uni) and I personally don’t think it’s all that hard to switch from one to the other since the main difference is syntax I think, it might take a little more time to go to C++ but you will have code that can easily be ported to Mac to make the Mac guys happy.

Just my 2cents, love your work!

Cheers
Fots

brilliant fx insert ,,nuff said cheers matey :)

Hey, thanks for releasing the VST for free, I’m impressed with it already and I haven’t even downloaded yet…

I’m actually interested in VSTi coding in C++, if you could point me in the right direction for code tutorials etc I’d really appreciate it.

Truly a masterpiece! And what makes it even better is that it’s free! Great, I’m going to use this a lot in my music production. Thanks so much for this wonderful tool!

what happened to the old illformed site?? had sosososososo… many artists with ill tracks n all i downloaded like atleast 100 songs from the old site. I was wondering if you were gonna put those back up

-aaron-

u can reach me at skyda23@aol.com or on aim at “algam16″

thank you

Hi,

brilliant work! I’m using it again and again, and everytime i discover new possibilities… thanks for this kickass free tool!

i downloaded it nd everything but i dont know how to get any sounds on there……

I really love this plug in just got a mac and just found out it’s not available for OS X which I find is really say but I’m still gonna try and bounce to my PC from time to time cause glitch just gets some kick ass sounds like everytime I mess with it….nice one!

big up!

Hey where’s the dos version??

B

<size=verybig>THANK YOU!</size> and …errr…. <size=really_small>mac ? </size>

… sorry i had to say it :-)

Breat Tweaker ! lol!

Running this under WINE and FST on the Planter CCRMA kernel.
Playing an empty looped song in Hydrogen will allow me to connect my live inputs through it under JACK for live “glichin’”.

Nice job buddeh!

i’m glad to see you’re getting mad love… i’m came back to upgrade an