“Gone are the days when we’d have to manually cut up audio parts by hand to get those cool DJ type effects. Sugar Bytes’ Effectrix can do all of this with ease using a simple step time based grid.

“Insert the plug-in across a spare group on your sequencer and try routing all the drums, music parts or whatever else you like. We find it works best if used sparingly so maybe try the effect over the last bar of 16. ‘X-Loop’ gives you some awesome frozen delay type effects – you can even make the pitch go up or down while ‘Vinyl’ is great for deck stops and scratching effects. ‘Crush’ and ‘Reverse’ work well too. Once you found the effects you like try placing a different one for each beat on the grid. You can turn a basic drum loop into something else, seriously!”