Fire For Your Studio: Glitch VST, Chopped and Skrewed

Ever wonder how to get that glitchy, chopped and skrewed sound? Here's a fun and FREE way to do it. Glitch VST, is a free VST that I highly recommend for your studio. It's a cool plugin that let's you add real-time effects to the audio as it plays.

I've messed around with Glitch VST and its pretty fun. It can be a little tricky at first however. Basically, you add Glitch onto an audio track as an insert effect. When the track audio plays, Glitch will loop through an effects pattern that you can modify as you wish and change the audio real time. You can then use the envelope on the track to turn it ON/OFF during certain parts of the track.

Some of the obvious purposes...creating cool drum and vocal effects. The imagination is the limit. You can get Glitch VST at:


Official Website:
http://illformed.org/plugins/glitch/

Here's a couple sample videos of Glitch VST in action:




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Tweakbench VST, 100% Free

If you are a cheap-ass music producer (aren't we all) looking for some nice free plug-ins, I highly recommend taking a look at the Tweakbench bundle. Tweakbench is a site run by a guy named Aaron Rutledge, a VST software designer who develops high-quality freeware. I have used some of his applications in my work. There are both VST Instruments and Effects available for free. They have a very unique sound, especially good for indie/electro styles IMO but can be useful in many situations.

One that I particularly find interesting is the padawan vst (pictured below). Has some interesting sounds with an ambient texture.



"Padawan is a hybrid synthesizer inteded for pad and ambient sound creation. the first oscialltor is analog style, while the second is based on wavetables. there are some nice modulation options, all synced to host tempo. for effects there is a nice stereo chorus and a simple reverb" - Tweakbench Website

Definitely check it out. For more information, visit the Tweakbench website:

http://www.tweakbench.com/