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Joshua Au-Yeung
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Joshua Au-Yeung

Joshua Au-Yeung (professionally known as Chester Sky) is a music producer, composer, director, and software developer. He's published 10+ music albums, directed and composed for films, created board games and dozens of art pieces, and hosts a podcast. He's an instructor of online courses, including best-selling courses on music production and composing for films and video games. His previous book, The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 20, reached #1 on Amazon in the Digital Audio Production category.
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Understanding glitch effects

Glitches are the sound of audio device failure. When a hardware music player fails to work, various sounds can occur, such as stuttering, scratching, stretching, and reversing. When unintended, these indicate that something went wrong. When intended, glitch sounds can be a creative tool to make your sounds feel more artificial and more mechanical.

Glitch effects can be used in a lot of situations, such as the following:

  • Transitioning between one song section to another
  • Fading instrument sounds in or out
  • Creating movement within a sound

Here are some of the best glitch plugins on the market:

  • FL Studio’s Gross Beat. Included with FL Studio Signature Edition and higher. We’ll learn how to use Gross Beat in the upcoming pages.
  • Izotope’s Stutter Edit, available at https://www.izotope.com/.
  • dBlue’s Glitch 2, available at https://illformed.com/.
  • Sugar Bytes’s Effectrix...
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Joshua Au-Yeung

Joshua Au-Yeung (professionally known as Chester Sky) is a music producer, composer, director, and software developer. He's published 10+ music albums, directed and composed for films, created board games and dozens of art pieces, and hosts a podcast. He's an instructor of online courses, including best-selling courses on music production and composing for films and video games. His previous book, The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 20, reached #1 on Amazon in the Digital Audio Production category.
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