GlitchBud 8x8 Realtime FX

GlitchBud is a live glitch effect for your whole rig. Put it across up to 8 stereo tracks and play rolls, stutters, shuffles, tape stops, reverses, gates and frozen textures from one pad grid. Hold a pad to glitch the music. Let go, and the dry audio returns. There is nothing to record or load first: GlitchBud always listens, so every pad is ready the moment you touch it. WHY GLITCHBUD • 8 stereo inputs, 8 stereo outputs. Most glitch effects sit on one stereo track. GlitchBud passes 8 separate lanes, and you patch each pad to the lanes you choose. Glitch every track at once, only the drums, or drums and bass together, locked in time. • The rest of your mix plays on. A pad touches only its own inputs. • Each glitch can have its own output. Send it to your own reverb, delay or filter. • Made to be played. Pads can wait for the next beat or bar, catch a moment that just passed, and sound a little different each time. 16 EFFECTS • Repeat: Roll, Stutter, Erode • Rearrange: Shuffle, Sequence • Speed: Tape (Stop and Rewind), Reverse • Gate: Gater, with a 16-step pattern • Texture: Freeze, Scan, Smear • Stems: Scatter, Relay, Stagger, Loom, Crossfire YOUR TRACKS PLAY EACH OTHER The Stems effects do not glitch a mix: they make your tracks play each other. Relay lets the tracks take turns, step by step. Stagger plays them as a canon. Loom loops each track at its own length, for a polyrhythm from your own parts. Scatter breaks them into a cloud of grains. Crossfire lets one track fire pieces of the others: each kick can throw a chop of your lead or vocal. PLAY • 64 pads on 4 pages (A-D). All 64 are live: a latched pad plays on while you work on another page. • Hold or Latch for each pad. Touch a pad with two fingers to latch it while you play. • Pads layer: hold many at once, also on the same input. Mono plays one pad at a time. • Sync: effect times in note values (straight, triplet, dotted) or in milliseconds. • Grid: in a host, the pad starts on the next beat or bar. • Lookback: start the effect on the audio from before your touch. • Mutate: a random change on each hit, as much as you want. • Speed: 0.25× to 4×. Pitch and time change together, as on a turntable. ROUTING AND MIXER • Each pad has one or more inputs, one output, Wet and Gain. • The mixer has In, Dry and Out levels for each of the 8 buses, with meters. • Set Dry to 0 to use a bus as a glitch return. MIDI • Each pad plays from its own MIDI note and channel. • Give the same note to many pads, and one note fires a whole scene. • Let a sequencer play the pads, for written or generative glitch parts. AUv3 AND STANDALONE • AUv3 audio effect with MIDI input, for AUM, Loopy Pro, Drambo and other hosts. • In a host with multi-bus support, route up to 8 tracks in and 8 channels out. Other hosts use In 1 and Out 1. • Synced times and Grid follow the host tempo. Bypass and Pattern are host parameters. Your setup is saved with the host project. • The standalone app uses the microphone or an audio interface, with one input and one output. ALSO • 13 factory presets, from Drum Breaker to Full Rig, and your own user presets. • 12 themes, and a color for each pad. • A waveform that glitches with the pads. • A tutorial in the app, and a full manual with 14 recipes. GlitchBud has glitch effects only: no filter, delay or reverb. Send its 8 outputs to the effects you already love.