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Glitchy / IDM style drum apps?
I have ruismaker noir, patterning 2, and fractal bits, but am looking for some more drum apps that have glitchy strange sounds, not your typical kicks and claps and hh's.
any suggestions?
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I have ruismaker noir, patterning 2, and fractal bits, but am looking for some more drum apps that have glitchy strange sounds, not your typical kicks and claps and hh's.
any suggestions?
You should grab Glitchcore and replicant 2 to add some glitch to typical drum kits. Also, Elastic Drums can be very experimental
@iOSTRAKON thanks! i dont have glitchcore or replicant, will look into both! i forgot to mention i have elastic drums, and i love it, but i always have sync issues with it when using as IAA. I sometimes will create in elastic drums and then bounce out the wav's, but that can get in the way of my workflow.
Maybe fractal bits.
I feel your pain. Both apps I mentioned are cheap in price but very powerful
also scatterbrain
Elastic Drums. Particularly the Futuristic Synths IAP.
run absolutely anything through Shaper by k devices. i bet their Wov fx is brilliant too.
running a normal drum loop through looperator creates some really heavy and glitchy drum loops. you can download it to try it for free then buy it to use it as an auv3.
Yeah or Turnado
Roli Noise’s drums have some nice sounds of the type you are looking for. Might be worth a look. You can modulate them quite a lot.
i also second shaper. i just bought it (thanks @wellingtonCres ) and its sounds soo good. there's a preset called broken cracker that didn't make anything glitchy or destroyed, but it made my drums super warm and a little crunchy. 10/10 i definitely recommend
Also, I’ve had success running drums through Replicant 2 with some randomise in the settings. It glitches things nicely and in an evolving, non-repeating way.
I use it on this track. Most evident from about 55secs in until the end of the track
Like most are saying, glitchy drums are more about fx. But in terms of glitch samples it doesn't get much better than Fractal Bits imo. Seekbeats also has an intuitive drum synthesizer which I've made some glitchy samples on.
Ruismaker FM is great.
GlitchCore goes really well with glitchy beats
DM2 is alright, too, if you don’t demand AU.
I was gonna throw out Earhoof, but I think it isn’t available anymore.
Yes, Shaper is really good.
Also, any Bitcrush effect can help turn anything into noisey drum sounds.
That kinda new one Bit Maestro is excellent, and pretty unique amongst the Bitcrushers.
Axon 2 is a strong contender 👍🏻
SunVox has some pretty decent kits as well.
edit: also, I usually have the best success making glitchy percussion using FM. Take a random FM synth like KQ Dixie, and using a sequencer, p-lock parameters such as algorithm, decay, feedback, lfo etc. If your locks are tempo synced, the result should be similar to what you’d get with Axon.
Also, TC-11 has some awesomely weird percussive presets and plinky, noisy leads. Sample a session just messing about and you’re guaranteed to get some usable sounds.
Turnado.
Looperator.
Replicant 2.
GlitchCore.
and don’t forget Sector..
None of them are drum kits, but you can make drum kits using the results of their effects.
King
They can also do some cool stuff to ordinary and boring drum loops.
There are a few presets in Phosphor 2 titled ‘arpeggiate me’ that make great cross-modulated percussive sounds. Registers C4-C5 were particularly sweet, if memory serves.
Exactly!
Double Bonus!
King
Will second Replicant 2, (or third at this point?) - pretty much my desert island FX app.
SECTOR!
If you set it up right, there is so much randomness that you can dial to taste. Once you get it set up right, importing the next loop and saving it under a different name gives you the same awesome settings, and you can flip between four different settings for each of the three types of warping available. Top 5 app for me of all time...
OF ALL TIME!
Isn’t anybody going to mention Drambo..
... Doesn’t look like it..
King
Got any good tips for Drambo glitch drums?
LCW-2 and all the others by same developer.
Get tweakybeat by seekbeats developer. It's free nowadays anyway
https://apps.apple.com/app/tweakybeat/id330051410
I love Seekbeats man. Always seemed like this one was under rated compared to Elastic Drums. Damn shame it’ll likely never become AUv3. The voice randomizer was really inspiring, and the 3x variable stage amp/pitch/noise envelopes can really twist the drums into something unique. I’d say the drums on this app tend toward the harder/punchier end. Can definitely go IDM.
Sector.
Oh my!
There are so many ways to glitch-up some drums - (hundreds, thousands - infinite?)
It’s not a question of “where do I start” it’s a question of “where do I stop”!
The pic below wasn’t actually glitching drums originally, I just added a drumloop to Flexi and added a couple quickly selected modules, on the end, just for my *reply really.
Play around with all the knobs till it suits you:
Simply playing around with the LFO knobs on the sampler make a huge difference. (And look how many more knob are in the pic) and you can add more. Change the LFO to “S&H ramp”..
This ^ is a relatively simple patch. Relative to other patches I’ve created and what others have too.
Drambo is crazy!
I could create a different set up, with different modules and get a totally different outcome.
This one was just a test project I was testing two ARP’s on, the other day in the Lab.
Add more LFO’s, Graphic Shapers, Gates/Velocities Sequencers, modulate some filter(s), add some Randomness, Reverse, Retrigger etc etc.. (LFO or trance-gate, da wet/dry on an added Reverb module). Modulate the Threshold, on a noise gate, add and modulate a Bit redux and a Decimator!
If you need to go deeper:
Re-sample/record x amount of bars/patterns of what you have now - then load the new sample into a Flexi on a different track - slice 8/16/32 (what ever you like) - create a beat with it (sample that beat) - then put that beat through your original Flexi- and do it all again.. and so on and so forth..
(don’t forget to add some Step components + P-Locks..) If you want.
Sample loops could include or be your own programmed loop, which you created in Drambo (or elsewhere)..
Add stuff and see what they do, you can’t really go wrong - especially if you create a test project, and save regularly, (or just delete the module).
Summary:
Add stuff and play..
Would I choose Drambo for Glitching - it definitely has the caperbillity, but for more immediate-ness (and apps that are more dedicated to that type of processing), I would probably choose Sector and or GlitchCore as I mentioned before. (using Fractal Bits to start with, is a no brainier).
Have Fun! and Enjoy!
King
BTW: My *reply is for anyone.
Added: Cheers for asking this question! Been adding more modules and another Flexi on the same track - so two samples play simultaneously - end result?.. —> I saved this as a proper project!
I’m not really a Glitch genre producer, but..
- few more things and it will become a Glitch-making patch for other projects (dnb) etc..
Have a look at Yellofier, Triqtraq , WerkBench and DM2