Hysteresis DELAY
Hysteresis
Hysteresis by Glitchmachines is a free glitch delay designed for creative destruction.
Rather than a conventional echo unit, it’s a full-spectrum effects processor that turns clean audio into fractured, evolving chaos.
Built for electronic musicians and sound designers, it excels at robotic textures, stuttering delays, and warped time-based modulation, yet it can just as easily be dialled back for atmospheric, rhythmic delay effects.
This isn’t a tool for subtlety. Hysteresis is a plugin that pushes sound into new shapes, transforming even the simplest sample into an evolving, circuit-bent performance.
System Requirements:
- 32-bit
- 64-bit
- VST 2 & 3/ AU
- Windows
- MacOs
Feedback Delay & Signal Mutation
At the core of Hysteresis is a feedback-based dual delay line, one per stereo channel.
Unlike a traditional feedback loop, the output is rerouted through a stutter processor, lowpass filter, and modulation stage before feeding back into the opposite channel.
This unique design lets you sculpt complex, intertwined feedback behaviours that morph and fold into each other in unpredictable ways.
The stutter processor acts as a glitch generator, slicing the signal into bursts or reverse fragments for mechanical, robotic effects.
Combined with the lowpass filter’s LFO, it can carve shifting tonal layers that evolve dynamically over time.
The modulation section brings movement and spatial width, adding chorus-style diffusion or chaotic frequency modulation depending on rate and depth settings.
Creative Control & Design Philosophy
Despite its experimental potential, Hysteresis offers precision and workflow refinement.
The interface is fully scalable, with clear visual feedback and a generous 60 factory presets to get you started.
From smooth modulated echoes to complete sonic breakdowns, it provides a playground for anyone looking to blur the line between rhythm and noise.
Built with Glitchmachines’ signature DSP quality, Hysteresis maintains pristine signal integrity even at extreme settings.
It’s ideal for producers seeking motion and unpredictability, a plugin that behaves less like a delay and more like a living sound organism.
Key Features:
Free creative delay designed for glitch, modulation, and experimental sound design.
- Dual-channel feedback-based delay architecture
- Stutter effect for rhythmic chopping and reverse delay textures
- Lowpass filter with internal LFO for dynamic tone shaping
- Modulation processor for chorus and pitch movement
- 60 factory presets covering glitch, ambience, and modulation effects
- Fully resizable interface and minimal CPU load
FAQ
The plugin reroutes its delay feedback through a stutter processor, lowpass filter, and modulation engine before returning it to the input, causing time-smeared, evolving feedback that produces glitch and modulation artefacts.
Yes — it’s effective both as an insert and a send effect. Running it in parallel allows you to blend distorted, modulated echoes underneath the clean signal for added texture.
The modulation processor manipulates the secondary delay line to introduce chorus-style detuning or unstable, pitch-bent modulation depending on the rate and depth settings.
It’s positioned in the feedback path, meaning each delayed repeat is progressively filtered, allowing gradual tonal darkening or movement driven by its built-in LFO.
