Smack

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Smack is a loop glitcher for the Ableton Move, built as a module for the Schwung community framework, which must be installed on the Move. It grabs a tempo-synced loop of live audio, either retroactively from what was just played or by arming a recording, cuts it into slices on a grid, and lets a seeded random pattern assign effects and a new play order to the slices. Patterns repeat exactly on every pass until re-rolled, and a seed control browses them by number. The effects include retriggers, reverse, varispeed and time-preserving pitch shifts, half and double speed, gating, bitcrushing, tape stops and starts, vinyl scratches, filter and vowel sweeps, granular freeze and scatter, synced delays, distortion, phaser, gated reverb bursts, ring modulation and a tuned comb. Three builds share one engine. An audio effect for Signal Chain and Master FX slots can glitch the whole Move mix. A standalone instrument loops the Move's microphone, line or USB-C input. Oversmack takes over the full surface: the steps show the pattern, and three pad rows act as an effect palette for pinning effects to individual slices. An A/B punch switches between the clean loop and the pattern on slice or loop boundaries, a dual-mono mode treats the left and right inputs as two independent lanes, and loops follow the Move's transport when its MIDI clock is sent out. Presets, MIDI CC control, on-device help and screen-reader announcements are included.

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