Glitch Plugins for Macs

Here are two great free glitch plugins for macs. These are the things that make you sound like Squarepusher. Or they will if your as good as Squarepusher but that would be quite a claim. They are freeware before you piracy puritans have a go.... Both plugins randomly trigger different sorts of effects which means that if you just insert them into a channel, every time a sample goes through them it will get mangled differently. The best way to use them is to loop the section that want glitched for 16-32 bars, insert glitch and then bounce to audio. Now you can re-insert the audio file and edit together all the best glitches.


First up is Livecut which has modules for bitcrushing, comb filtering as well as the normal reverse and stutters. It also got lots of buttons which is fun but make it a little unwieldy. All the fx sound good and it comes with some presets to help you work out whats what.



SupaTrigga is a much simpler gadget. It does stutters, reversing, resequencing (jumbling things up) and resequencing in addition to a neat vinyl stop noise. It does these few things very well and the simpler interface makes it very easy to use.

My advice would be to use Supatrigga for little drum edits and a combination of the two for when you really take a dislike to the way something sounds.

If you like spending money there are a couple of good commercial alternatives and Effectrix by Sugar Bytes is my favourite. Its full sequenced which means the results aren't random so you have a larger amount of control over what's going on. It also means the results are predictable this combined with a simple interface make it a prime candidate for live usage. The fact that you can assign different glitch patterns to a keyboard seals the deal for me - If you want to Go! Spastic infront of a crowd this is the tool for the job.

SupaTrigga and Livecut download

Effectrix demo download