Glitch

Dropout

Dropped lines and blocks, with three ways of filling the gap.

Dropout: a glitch effect on the built-in sample photograph. Computed on your machine right now.
Open Dropout in the studio

Controls

lines
Share of rows that come through spoiled. A dropout is always full width — the head lost the whole line
thickness
How many rows a dropout covers. One is a digital glitch, several in a row is mechanical damage to the tape
fill
What replaces the lost row: the last good one held, black, or noise. Different machines lose it differently
blocks
The other kind of loss, the digital one: a square of data never arrived
block size
A number from 4 to 48, 16 by default.
contrast
A number from -1 to 1, 0 by default.

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