kino-music replied: Awesome! Would you be able to give me your own opinion of some of my songs? Mainly the DnB/Dubstep ones. I’ve started Glitch Hop but maaaan, it’s probably the hardest to make. Any tips?
Sure, I'll drop some comments on your Soudcloud account.
Tips about glitch hop, let's see. Well, the best tip will always be to try and imitate what you hear, and try to find tutorials that are specifically teaching how to do it. Like, searching "how did KOAN Sound do [x]" is not a bad idea since there are enough people who like their style that tutorials on how to imitate them are in high demand. Then you just take what you learn and put your own spin on it. As for more immediate advice, most glitch hop is heavily based around the idea of sharp cuts and short pauses in the sound. To get this effect, you will want to create envelopes on your VSTis that have zero release to make the sound cut out as soon as your note ends. Also, I work a lot in sampled sounds as opposed to midi note information when making glitch, because samples can be cut easily and don't require a lot of additional envelop control since you're working with a recording as opposed to the live sound. That way, if you want to have a sound with a lot of release, but want to cut the release so you only get a little bit of its trailing sound, a sampled sound can be easily sculpted to do that. Also, gate and time stretching effects are pretty popular for making both cuts and warped sounds. FL's love philter is a nice gater, but it can be overwhelming on first look. There are a bunch of nice free gater VSTs out there like d.blue glitch and LSGate which are more intuitive.
D.blue also can stretch, but it's a bit limited. Since you have FL, you have three decent options to work with, depending on what package you have. One is Wave Traveller, which is a record scratch simulator like fruity scratcher. You upload a sampled sound into it and then create scratch patterns on the sample. With WT, you can set the piano roll to correspond to different scratch patterns which you create.
Fruity Granulizer is a sample based VSTi that you upload a sample into, and then can stretch out and break up in numerous ways, as well as pitch change on the piano roll, among other things.
Gross Beat comes with the ultimate package of FL. It is like WT in that it can simulate scratching, but its time warping factors are greater while being simpler to use. It is used as a vst effect, and can be automated to get as many different time warp patterns as you can imagine. It also has a built in gater system. (You can buy it separately from the ultiamte package)
That covers some basic theory on glitch, but most glitch now days is entirely speculative anyway. If anything I said didn't make sense, feel free to ask me to clarify. I'm not the most articulate person in the world.