Understanding glitch effects

Glitches are the sound of audio device failure. When a hardware music player fails to work, various sounds can occur, such as stuttering, scratching, stretching, and reversing. When unintended, these indicate that something went wrong. When intended, glitch sounds can be a creative tool to make your sounds feel more artificial and more mechanical.

Glitch effects can be used in a lot of situations, such as the following:

• Transitioning between one song section to another
• Fading instrument sounds in or out
• Creating movement within a sound

Here are some of the best glitch plugins on the market:

• Izotope's Stutter Edit, available at https://www.izotope.com/
• Dblue's Glitch 2, available at https://illformed.com/
• Sugarbyte's Effectrix, available at https://sugar-bytes.de/effectrix
• FL Studio's Gross Beat. Included with FL Studio Signature Edition and higher. We'll learn how to use Gross Beat in...