Anyone have any idea how I can program something that can cut a music file into several differently sized sections and randomly "glitch" them? Preferably as a plugin to soundforge? I've never done this kind of programming before what does it involve?

What sort of glitches are you after? There might be an easier way than writing a plugin.

It's actually for a musician friend of mine I don't have time to do it in myself but I promised him I'd look into it. This is what he wants:

The vision is basically just a plug that autoglitches samples by:

-Dividing the sample into equal fragments. Definitely a musical fraction like 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, etc (representing different beats)

-Rearrange them pretty much randomly

There's a more complex side, which I hope to look at further on, about randomly keeping large patches together (say 33-48) but then splitting up little ones in greater detail, various rhythm patterns. Dunno though, as this side sounds much more tricky.


Googling proved useless and I can't find anything on this kind of audio programming, any links to forums or sites with more info would be greatly appreciated :)