Here’s another rhythmic glitch effect patch for the Empress ZOIA. Although called Ambient Glitch 2, this isn’t a replacement/rebuild of my previous Ambient Glitch patch, just a new exploration of the random glitching concept.
It certainly isnt limited to ambient music of course, it sounds great on drums too!
Ive included a full set of controls on the first page to customise the sound, see video (coming soon) to see a full rundown of their functions.
You also don’t need a MIDI clock this time, the clock BPM control is the yellow buttons in the centre column.
The effect is Stereo and incorporates random panning. To run it in mono i’d recommend adjusting the controls to make the glitches more frequent, as you’ll be missing the glitches that are panned to the other side.
How it works:
Basically, the incoming audio is duplicated into buffers and randomly switched between parallel fx lines featuring a pitch shifter and an Aliaser module. From the fx modules, the audio is routed through bandpass filters then through a randomly opening/closing VCA. There is also a delay circuit to add further sound sculpting potential.
If you like this one, check out my other glitch patch too! https://patchstorage.com/ambient-glitch-filtered-random-looping-verb-needs-midi-clock/
Feel free to tag me at https://www.instagram.com/anthurium.sounds/ if you like it/use it, i’d love to see :)
Once I added some MIDI CC’s to this really comes alive! Great patch. Of course, I realize you cannot really add a MIDI controller to it where everybody can use it the same. Great job. Lots of bloops and bleeps coming out of now.