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.