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Ugo Disturbance

Ugo Disturbance is primarily intended for the glitching/mangling of drum loops but it can also be useful with melodic material, vocals, and pretty much anything else you want to get glitchy with.

Disturbance is similar to a slicer, but a bit different. It works by chopping up a loop into 64 equal parts (no beat detection), then sequencing their playback, and each slice in Disturbance has its own loop point.

In addition to offering several playback order options, Disturbance also offers sequenced filtering, distortion, pitch shifting, and slice length adjustment…as well as various playback randomizations, dual delays, and non sequenced pitch shifting which can even be set to track MIDI note input, allowing you to turn anything you feed into Disturbance into a synth oscillator.

Disturbance can be used to create subtle or standard variations and effects, or it can warp your source material into something completely new. You can even adjust the start and end points of the sequencer to help you create odd time signature loops.

Additionally, you can even turn off the clock and use your Modulation wheel (CC1) to move forwards and backwards through the loop, almost like a wavetable.

Purchase Ugo Disturbance (Windows VST): Price: $35.00 (USD).

Download Demo (only 64 patches and occasional volume dropout):
Ugo Disturbance Demo - VST PC

Demo Songs:
Disturbance-demo-1 - A loop gets progressive more mangled as more features are added and edited. Also features MIDI note input for the pitch shifter, turning a Disturbance into a synth. This is all from using a single drum loop.
Disturbance-demo-2 - M-theory for the melodic instruments, Ironhead for the drums/percussion, Metallurgy and Tunguska for the effects, and Disturbance for loop mangling.

Watch a full 12 chapter video manual of Ugo Disturbance

Disturbance sequencer related features:

Slice length reduction
Filter cutoff (low or high pass filtering)
Pitch shifting
Dirt (distortion + downsampling + filtering)
Slice reverse
Random slice
4 sequencer direction options
Mod wheel control over playback
Sequencer jitter effect
Host BPM sync or internal clock
Sequencer start/end point adjustment

Disturbance additional features:

Built in file browser
Dual Delay
Velocity sensitivity
Pitch Shifter with the option of fixed (non-sequenced) setttings, MIDI note tracking, and portamento.
32 example presets to get you started

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