Turning DOWN Tightness has yet another effect. All the way up and the pitch shifting is totally defeated. Back off the Tightness, to get back to a ‘nice’ pitch shift, or turn it up for tightly tracked, robotic, nasty artifacts. It makes the pitch shifted sound track the underlying sound more tightly… or MUCH more tightly… or so tightly that it glitches out and turns into a harsh de-rezzing bitscrunch sound, because the buffer’s not nearly long enough to contain a seamless loop of the underlying sound. Turning up Tightness all the way shortens the buffer zone in which the plugin finds its transitions. If you’re trying to do a ‘nice’ pitch shift you’ll be wanting to tune this to your underlying track, but if you want to create sonic mayhem here is how you do it.

That gives it a distinctive raw tone, less processed, but still essentially a pitch shifter plugin.Įxcept this is NOT like other pitch shifter plugins, because it’s got that Tightness control, and that takes Glitch Shifter into full glitch in two different ways. Its tone comes from the algorithm: instead of smoothing the transitions, it always tries to find a spot where it can switch inside the position of its buffer in just a sample or two, seamlessly.

That gives you the base pitch shifting, like any pitch shifter plugin. But that’s just the start… that’s the top two sliders, the top one being Note (in semitones) and the bottom being trim (unquantized: if you’re on VST and can’t reset it to its default easily, be careful not to change it unless you want detuned effects). You can tell it to feed back, or keep it as a tightly tracked subtle dry/wet blend. You can do equal-temperament pitch shifting, unquantized, or both.

In fact, I’ve got plans for refining this one and making it do subtler things that are of use in pop mixing… but right now, this is Glitch Shifter! It is an audio monster, and it’s all yours. This is one of the craziest secret weapons I’ve ever done.

TL DW: GlitchShifter is a really gnarly, raw-sounding pitch shifter with a dose of insanity!

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