Public Beta available : "Glitch Pad", Experimental Synth, now on Mac too

[liqih]

Public Beta of Glitch Pad, an Experimental Synth VST3/VST2 plug-in for 64-Bit Windows.
Mac AU/VST3.

Glitch Pad was originally a 2002 SynC Modular patch. The new VST synth features a rewritten and improved oscillator derived from the same algorithm designed in 2002, now natively coded in C++.
Download at:
https://nusofting.com/glitch_pad_beta
This early Beta of "Glitch Pad" is fully functional, free to download and use. 23 sound presets are included.

Audio demo: 11 instances: all sounds here are made using Glitch Pad
https://nusofting.com/stuff/glitch_pad_preview.mp3

[Diego_C]

Sounds good. Thanks for sharing it.

[liqih]

Sounds good. Thanks for sharing it.

Thanks for reading!

[simmo75]

Are you dropping mac support out of interest?

[RunBeerRun]

It's interesting, the knobs actually do things as opposed to most synths I try. I don't see any huge worthless mod matrixes. Too bad there aren't presets so far.

[seafire]

Says 23 presets included in OP

[liqih]

Are you dropping mac support out of interest?

No, just that Mac builds always come later. I personally don't use Macs, my collaborator Bernie (blurk as KVR user), take professionally care of Mac versions.

[liqih]

It's interesting, the knobs actually do things as opposed to most synths I try. I don't see any huge worthless mod matrixes. Too bad there aren't presets so far.

I apologize for there is no installer yet, your need to copy the presets from the zip

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1) Copy the "Glitch Pad.dll" into your 64-bit VST2 plugins folder.
2) Copy the "Glitch Pad.vst3" into  
C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3
3) Open the plugin in your VST Host, click [load] on the Glitch Pad GUI
to open the preset folder. Copy there the XML preset files.
[..\AppData\Roaming\NUSofting Data\Glitch_Pad]

[masterhiggins]

Fascinating. I'll keep an eye out for when a mac version drops. Wish you had a newsletter signup so I don't miss it.

[blurk]

Are you dropping mac support out of interest?

Luigi has already answered, but no. macOS support is still happening. Windows betas and alphas just come out earlier because it takes me a little while to catch up.

I hope he won't mind me teasing, but I'm currently playing (testing out) on macOS another new NUSofting Fertile Audio Tool in the pipeline.

[liqih]

Fascinating. I'll keep an eye out for when a mac version drops. Wish you had a newsletter signup so I don't miss it.

Thanks masterhiggins, I will probably set up a NUSofting newsletter next month. So much to to do for single developer.
You may bug Mr. blurk (see his reply above) for Mac versions, Ha ha.

[cptgone]

I gave Glitch Pad a spin in Bitwig.
All went fine.

I like the GUI, with its visualisation of the soundwave.
It's pretty, too.

I like Glitch Pad sonically, too.
Easy to grasp, yet a lot of fun while turning knobs.

[liqih]

I gave Glitch Pad a spin in Bitwig.
All went fine.

I like the GUI, with its visualisation of the soundwave.
It's pretty, too.

I like Glitch Pad sonically, too.
Easy to grasp, yet a lot of fun while turning knobs.

Thank you cptgone for the feedback!

[liqih]

Mac Versions Ready! AU/VST3 - Apple Silicon and Intel
https://nusofting.com/glitch_pad_beta

There you have an installer BUT the preset must still be copied manually from the zip.
On the GUI click the [load] button and use the file dialogue to go to the directory with presets. Load one and they are all loaded.

Looking forward to Mac users feedback.

[cptgone]

Purely FYI, A detail that won't bother anyone:

I recently loaded GlitchPad in VCV Rack, and I noticed the (pretty!) flash overlay.
When loaded straight in Bitwig, that doesn't happen (unless I close and re-open GlitchPad's UI).
Perhaps Bitwig somehow pre-loads the GUI, before rendering it?