Illformed has made Glitch 2 – an audio effect for Linux, Mac & Windows – available as a free download, in memory of its developer, Kieran Foster:

“As illformed he blessed us with his vision and talent manifest as his Glitch legacy, making an atomic impact on electronic music confined by no genre, resting on no trendwhorism. His innovation and curiosity and the chaos of randomness his work creates will fascinate all of us and inspire all of us and surprise all of us forever.

As dblue he showed up for Renoise. For taktik, and for the users and the makers. We will be haunted by his helpfulness, his kindness, and his funny reactions in the forum forever. dblue made fantastic music and shared willingly with us, often. sharing not just his music, but how he made it, why he made it, and how we can make our own music better, always ready to collaborate and critique for his friends and fellow musicians.”

Foster described Glitch 2 as “the infamous FSU plugin”. It’s designed to be as “gentle or as brutal as you like”, retriggering audio occasionally, or chaotically mangling your audio.

Features:

Sequencer:

• Each program consists of 128 scenes that can be triggered via MIDI notes. Each scene has its own unique sequencer pattern, timing, and effect settings, allowing you to create unique variations.
• Multi-lane sequencer allows many effects to be played simultaneously, to create layered sounds.
• Improved sequencer timing controls to better match your groove and song structure.
• Intuitive pattern editor with drag’n’drop. Draw, erase, resize, split and join blocks with ease.

Effects:

• A collection of effect modules designed to slice, dice, chop, screw, twist, turn and mangle your sounds into new forms.
• Tempo-synced effects can easily be dialed in to precise musical timings such as 16th notes, and 8th note triplets.
• Filter, mix, pan and volume controls on each module, to help shape and fine-tune the output.

Randomize, Mutate, Glitch:

• Randomize and Mutate functions can be found at almost every level.

Availability:

Glitch 2 is available now as a free download.