Good tracked glitch music

Pizearke · June 03, 2013, 03:22:37

I'm kind of looking into making glitch music, so I'm wondering if anybody knows any good glitch artists that use trackers.

Also, resources on glitch and tracking in general would be appreciated.

LPChip · June 03, 2013, 10:18:23

Some tips I can give you:

Glitch can be quite nice with really short drums. In order to do this, you can use Phenome VSTi, which is a soundfont player. Load in a soundbank, and set the sustain/release to 0 and set the delay to short and it will give you really short drums which works well with glitch tracks.

Next, learn how to use the retrigger and use Q81 to add glitchy sound effects. This does also work with VSTi's, not just samples.
Here's an example of what I mean: http://mftp.lp1.nl/knyttwadf_dark_forest.wav.mp3

Saga Musix · June 03, 2013, 10:39:05

Typical aspects of tracked glitch music: High pattern tempos, (drum) samples with short (misplaced) loops, lots of retrigger. You may also want to experiment with OpenMPT's sample stretcher, as it can produce quite bad-sounding (and thus glitchy) results. This is one important aspect of the whole genre: Take the perfection out of your perfect samples. Add errors, add glitches.
As with every genre, actually listening to music from that genre and analyzing its sounds helps.

sso · June 09, 2013, 16:19:38

anything else interesting like Q81?

LPChip · June 10, 2013, 02:06:18

I would add that different drumsamples with Q81 and a different pitch gives good results. Go as high or as low as sounds good. Experiment.

Pizearke · June 13, 2013, 20:51:47

Quote from: Saga Musix on June 03, 2013, 10:39:05
As with every genre, actually listening to music from that genre and analyzing its sounds helps.

Yeah, that's definitely why I'm on the search for some good glitch.

Anyway, I'm going to download phenome and see how it sounds.

Saga Musix · June 13, 2013, 21:45:38

Well, Phenome sounds like the soundfonts you load into it. It doesn't have any sound of its own. There's no need to use Phenome if you're not using any soundfonts anyway. And for glitchy stuff, it might be better to just load soundfonts directly into OpenMPT anyway.

LPChip · June 14, 2013, 07:05:10

Quote from: Saga Musix on June 13, 2013, 21:45:38
Well, Phenome sounds like the soundfonts you load into it. It doesn't have any sound of its own. There's no need to use Phenome if you're not using any soundfonts anyway. And for glitchy stuff, it might be better to just load soundfonts directly into OpenMPT anyway.

Actually, not entirely true. As I pointed out earlier, phenome allows you to have any drum sample and set a very short decay. Now, its true that if you open the soundfont in OpenMPT you can edit the volume envelope manually and get the same results, but its not just a soundfont player. It actally does slightly more.