Andrew Benson, Jitter teacher extraordinaire, recently posted some incredible effects that emulate compression artifacts, a technique called “datamoshing.” Here is an overview of some videos using this effect. In the popular realm, Chairlift and Kanye have exploited this effect.
 Now it’s your turn! 

Here’s a tutorial video explaining how you can integrate this patch into DNA to use as an effect. The bigger picture is that you can take pretty much any video effect patch, and with a few modifications, have (yet) another effect in DNA.

Some notes about this video:
1.) The patch was originally a Max5 patch – I used a super collider extension to convert the Max5 patch into a Max 4.6 patch – DNA only works with Max 4 patches. Feel free to ask for help on how you can do this in the comments or by email. It seemed too distracting to go through that in the video.
2.) You can download the converted patch and supporting files here.
3.) Yes, I received Andrew’s permission to do this!

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