Digital glitch transition

A 1.2-second digital glitch transition in F# minor at 140 BPM. It opens on one sixteenth of a bright F# minor phrase: a hollow square-ish chord stab under a fast arpeggiated bleep line. A buffer-repeat effect then grabs that slice and stutters it faster and faster: sixteenths, thirty-seconds, sixty-fourths, then 1/128 and 1/256 repeats that blur into a buzzing tone. Each repeat is re-pitched upward like a sped-up buffer and crushed a little harder. Gated noise bursts flick left and right, and ring-modulated bleeps chirp between the slices. A 44 ms digital drop-out sucks everything away. Then a hard slam lands exactly on frame 18 (0.6 s): a mono F#1 sub hit, a crushed F# power chord, a downward ring-mod zap and a noise blast. A short tail of high ring-modulated sparkle grains ping-pongs out to silence. Everything is alias-free. Pitch shifts are re-synthesised from band-limited partials. Bit-crushing uses a smooth quantiser run at 8x oversampling and then filtered down. There is no naive sample-and-hold anywhere.

Metrics

Integrated LUFS

-13.7 LUFS

True peak

-7.1 dBTP

Length

1.2s · 57,600 samples @ 48000 Hz

Target master

-14 LUFS · peak ≤ -1 dBTP

Checks

Passed

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