Description

CYBER-HACK // GLITCH.BREACH

by Glitch State Labs

Hack your sound. Glitch on the grid.

CYBER-HACK is a rhythmic glitch and lo-fi multi-effect that plays like an arcade game. You paint stutters, reverses, tape stops, freezes, crushes, ring mod and wavefolding onto a 16-step sequencer, tune each effect in its own rack, and lock all of it to your DAW’s tempo. Every glitch lands on the beat.

What’s inside

Encryption Key: a 16-step glitch sequencer
Choose a brush and paint an effect onto any of the 16 steps: Stutter, Reverse, Tape Stop, Freeze, Crush, Ring Mod or Fold. You can also leave a step clean or switch it off to gate it. Drag across steps to paint quickly, or right-click a step to cycle through its effects.

FX Rack: every effect, its own controls
Click FX EDIT to open the rack. Each effect has its own setting and its own WET amount:

• Stutter: slice length from 1 step down to 1/8 of a step, from slow repeats to machine-gun rolls
• Reverse: blend the backwards slice with the original
• Tape Stop: stop time from a quick 0.25-step dip to a 2-step slow-down
• Freeze: hold and loop one step of audio
• Crush: 16-bit down to 3-bit on its own steps
• Ring Mod: 30 Hz tremolo up to 3 kHz metallic tones
• Fold: from warm saturation to aggressive buzz

Locked to your DAW
The step clock, the Tape Stop timing and the LFO all follow your host’s tempo and song position. Step 1 always falls on the downbeat, so the glitches stay in time when you start playback mid-song, loop a section or export.

Hacking Grid
Drag the ship across the grid: X sets Data Crush (clean to 3-bit), Y sets Breach Rate (1/8 to 1/64 steps).

Firewall filters
A low-pass and a high-pass filter (20 Hz – 20 kHz) to shape the tone. Both can be modulated by the LFO.

Glitch Arsenal
Probability-based stutter, reverse and tape stop, plus global ring mod, fold drive and Chaos. A tempo-synced LFO (4 bars to 1/64) can drive Crush, Ring Mod, the filters, Drive or Tremolo. There is also a FREEZE button, and ROLL DICE for an instant random patch.

12 factory stages + 8 save slots
Start from ready-made presets such as Stutter Storm, Rewind Attack, Tape Death, Robot Uprising, Bitcrush Boss and Total Chaos. Save your own sounds to 8 slots that are shared across all your projects.

Arcade game layer
Score, levels, XP, combos and achievements react while you tweak. The game layer is purely visual and never changes the sound.

Perfect for

• Beat-synced stutters and fills on drums and loops
• End-of-bar tape stops and reverse transitions
• Lo-fi, chiptune and 8-bit textures
• Glitch hop, trap, dubstep, IDM, hyperpop and experimental music
• Adding movement to vocals, synths and whole mixes

Specifications

• Format: VST3 (Windows 10/11, 64-bit)
• Tested in: Ableton Live 11
• Works in any VST3 host: FL Studio, Cubase, Studio One, Reaper, Bitwig and others
• Plugin window: 1200 × 900
• Includes: plugin, PDF user manual, installation guide

CYBER-HACK // GLITCH.BREACH: 16 steps. 7 effects. One beat grid.