Uboa

The Uboa Glitch Pack

Added 2024-11-18 16:36:48 +0000 UTC

Hello everyone. been a while again, and we have chronic fatigue to thank for that. Here are some little noises to use royalty (but not credit) free for your music. Lots of granulator glitches, cut ups, eerie drones and strange sounds in general. Hope you dig it. New song hopefully soon after some good health days. 24bit 48k, so DVD quality.

Also provided the albeton effects rack used to make them. All it indeed a single input or noise (such as a laptop mic, like me) and then go hog wild with all the settings. You might need to pick up kiloheart's Disperser (fantastic noise plugin, get it if u can!) too. But should do crazy sounds even with the default Ableton ones and you cannot be bothered getting the missing VSTs, of which there should on be two.

Basically, you put any sound through them - including shitty microphone signal which feeds back with the laptop speakers - and you can make futuristic horrid noises with the FX chain and by automating and modulating in real time, just like a real noise artist twiddling a knob on a guitar pedal.

Here is the rack, minus reverb (which is optional)

First two are LFOs. LFO's modulate random parameters to keep the sound 'organic' and 'moving'. Then there is a shifter which does pitch shifting and ring modding. then distortion (especially if input source is quiet + optional bit crushing.

Next the drum buss for saturation, transient control. Granular delay which is very fun to modulate live to get wet, semi-organic, Sophie-style noises.

Then, an OTT - the secret spice of compression, to get the most out of the input signal, sound loud, beefy and modern. Then, if one desires, it may be chopped up by a group of 5 beat repeats (panned around, and each are unique in their settings), which chop the signal in various ways into a glitchy swarm.

A resonator is added, although still mid on this as I think its a sometimes thing. It could be used to for some tonality or make dronier sounds. Autofilter + LFOs are used to make choppy computer sounds and squealches. Low pass I modulate as needed, depends if I want a dronier, fuller or hissier sample.

Finally, a pretty heavy compressor, using slow-attack to increase 'kicks' into the sound for percission reasons. Then a shaper, to make various parimeters more organically unprediactle. FInally a victor delay. I don't quite get it. But its fun and made things sound more like space lasers.

Input samples are mostly laptop micophone feedback, but also me and my partners talking and watching tv and playing games (like maple story lol) so there might be subtle signs of this in the feedback.

To use the samples in all your projects, only credit is needed! Will require latest copy of ableton 12 for the ADG - the effects rack used to make the samples - to work! Feel free to modify the effects rack to your liking, turning on an off effects mid recording or add new modules, and don't forget to record them from an empty track (with its input in the track making the sound)!. With the samples: cut them up, stretch them. Use them for your horror game. Turn them into weird drum machines or pitch shift them down or just play them randomly to your parents.

Anyway, I am tired. Sound design is fun. Have fun.