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GlitchBreaks app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 4016 ratings )
Music Entertainment
Developer: Alex Matheu
4.99 USD
Current version: 1.47, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 25 Apr 2012
App size: 61.24 Mb

Glitchbreaks is an iOS Universal manipulation tool for “Glitching” breakbeats. Manipulate beats to create new beats and record them.

● "Glitchbreaks is a sick sample loop glitching app with a groovy interface and nice instant touch control of real time audio. Its capable of seriously twisting sounds out, is one of the most modern audio apps Ive seen yet and Ninjas will love it" -Ninja Tune Records
● GlitchBreaks is an addictively fun and very useful app that will appeal to electronic musicians in a variety of settings. it’s a serious tool for manipulating audio loops. - iosmusicandyou.com
● Ive spent many hours playing with Glitch Breaks, cutting, and modulating my way to pure glitch bliss. Its unmistakable high quality, effortless interface makes it easy to forget the world outside and go full tilt boogie to your hearts content. -smitematter.com

Glitchbreaks uses four audio channels setup like mute groups. You can quickly switch between them to construct new beats, or manipulate loop points to “Cut” or “Glitch” the breaks.

Glitchbreaks can be used as a performance tool to juggle breaksbeats or destroy sounds at a granular level. You can make interesting effect-like-sounds by manipulating pitch, loop start, length, and cutting the beats with fluid responsive controls.

You can record your performance and bring it into iTunes through file sharing, or copy it out into another iOS application via Audio Copy and Paste. You pre determine the length of your recording by bars to easily make pieces to bring into a song without the need for further sample editing.

Auto-BPM detection will detect the tempo of a sample you copy into Glitchbreaks (you just need to specify the bars between 1-4). You can turn this feature off in order to manipulate audio that doesn’t have tempo, this is especially useful for manipulating voice samples.

Glitchbreaks contains a 4 channel mixer to adjust the levels of each sample, as you change the levels the sounds are combined into the mix, on the iPad version this is displayed graphically with a rendered waveform that is combined to give you an indication of what the entire sound looks like.

All of this is very easy to operate and even a beginner will be glitching and juggling breaks like a pro in minutes.

Features :

● 130 high quality factory beat loops
● Audiobus Support: Now you can stream live audio from Glitchbreaks directly to other Audiobus-compatible apps.
● Audio Copy and Paste and General Pasteboard support
● Full MIDI support, Virtual MIDI, MIDI Clock Sync In and Out, MIDI Learn
● 4 continuous looping channels with 4 channel mixer
● Dynamic Effects
● Auto-BPM detection / with on/off setting
● Set the BPM up to 2.9 times the original sample BPM
● Touchable Waveform Display with accurate position indicator
● Large Waveform view for iPad
● XY-Pad Loop Modulation (Loop Length, Loop Start)
● Cut Editor / Sequencer with 4 user save slots
● XY-Pads for selecting 4 Glitch or Cut styles
● Index Tracking keeps the beat on time
● Retrigger pads with quantize
● Pitch Shift
● Pitch Reset
● Independent time settings Whole, Half, Quarter
● Quantize for Cut and Glitch operations
● Recording to 44.1khz 16bit Wav files
● Set custom record length in bars
● Background Audio supports mixing with other apps
● iTunes File Sharing
● Mute
● Reverse
● Mixer view with volume faders per channel.
● Master volume
● Universal app
● Supports the New iPad retina display / iPhone retina display
● Load sounds while playing without hitting stop
● Preset Loading and Saving
● Background Audio Tracks
● Snap to Index

System Requirements and Recommendations
Glitchbreaks requires iOS 8.1 or higher

It is recoomended to run Glitchbreaks on : iPad/iPhone4/iPod Touch 4th Gen higher.

Pros and cons of GlitchBreaks app for iPhone and iPad

GlitchBreaks app good for

And now with Audiobus support its even better! Its solid, precise, and the grooves you can obtain with it are really disturbing!
+ Audiobus - no sync via Audiobus - not useable as an efx via Audiobus :( Please go on with this app! Thx +++++++++ Update 1.21 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ + MIDI sync + Filter, Delay, ring mod, ... via Audiobus + usable for Live performances - glitch efx only for the internal loops, not as an insert effect in Audiobus Feature request: A better control over the glitch efx to get more musical manipulations of the loops would be nice. I think about sounds like tape stop efx or a revers efx only on the bass drum. Cheers, DBeat
Reference! Wer aufs glitching abfährt, wird hier bestens bedient. GlitchBreaks is more than ive expacted. Full Star rating for it!
A great music making app. Good on the iPhone, astounding on the iPad. The audio copy/paste makes this much more than a toy. Used it in conjunction with Thumbjam and Multitrack DAW for some serious song making. Lacking a way to preview samples before assigning. But otherwise intuitive and a blast to use.
Before I get into my complaints about audio copy and paste I have to say this is a great app. There seems to be quite a few issues with audio paste though. It does not recognize beatmaker 2. Well it does but Im unable to retrieve the copied sample. All sample are imported in at a different bpm. Nano studio pastes are cut in half. Im not sure if anyone else is having these issues. The app is fantastic and I would love to begin importing my own beats.
This app holds the key to happiness. It is rip roaring good fun. GlitchBreaks has so many quirky features it is impossible to get bored with it. I am born again. This app has changed my life.

Some bad moments

Cannot import from iTunes library is so sucks! iTunes ライブラリから曲を取り込めないのはダメ以外の何物でもない。別途audioshareアプリ(500円)が必要になるし,もし買っても取り込むときすぐおちるらしい。結局、作編曲アレンジにはほとんど使えない。要は拡張性に乏しく単なるブレイクビーツっぽい気分が楽しめるリズム遊びのアプリ。この値段で買って損した気分です。
This is a really unique app. Ive used about 1001 different plugins on my DAW at one time or another and nothing does quite what GlitchBreaks does- and so easily. The latest update, 1.5, is a major step forward- background audio, stays in sync glitching or not glitching, various other great improvements. If youre a fan of Squarepusher/Aphex Twin or Warp Records in general then this is for you, if not, its still for you.
So easy to use, yet it allows you to create very complex live rythmic streams. Way fun and intuitive. And getting better...
Doesnt do much. What it does, doesnt do great. It appears to be a blown up iPhone app. $1.. Maybe. Im not going to say its not worth $5, but on the scale with other apps, not the same value you would get elsewhere.
The glitch fx is good but I dont like the samples in it I thought it could be a very useful tool but its very limited add this to it please
Excellent App for glitching breaks and you can definitely import your own files!