This is the go to effect for many Hip-Hop and Trap producers for that laid out, dark feel. Instead it’s halftime presets are legendary and great for instant creativity. It’s rarely used for the original purpose of scratching.
Gross Beat put volume and Time shaping into a single screen so that presets could be saved and recalled with ease and patterns selected by simple automation. Originally designed to replicate a DJ scratching vinyl, it was meant to replace an earlier plugin called FL Scratcher. Today’s focus is Gross Beat, a time mangling effect from Image-line’s FL Studio, introduced way back in 2008.
