How to make the sound stutter ?

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feyshay
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Re: How to make the sound stutter ?

Post by feyshay » Mon Jun 22, 2009 4:20 pm

How about taking your vocal phrase and dropping it into different drum rack slots?
Then you have your start arrow for the sample in those slots put on whatever word or syllable you want to stutter. If you tap the drum pad quickly you get the stutter. When you want the sample to play/loop, you hold down the drum pad (or something like that).
Is that another way to skin the cat?

doogs
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Re: How to make the sound stutter ?

Post by doogs » Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:35 pm

fuzzyhead wrote:Easiest way to achieve this:

Drop your vocal sample in Simpler,create a midi clip,set quantize to 1/32(or more),
draw 1 note per square on C3 line,
duplicate to have one next to another (looks like one line but chopped)

Back to Simpler,hit play, move "Start" sample knob position forward and back to convenience,automate if you wish,
Done
This is the principle of graintable synths

PS: Can't be achieved with Sampler cause no automation available with "Sample Start" box.

Hope this helped 8)

Fuzzy
Yup, exactly Fuzz....

This is pretty much what I was suggesting, but instead of creating the midi clip with sliced 1/32 notes, create an arpeggiator, set the rate to free, this will be the gate/trigger of yr sample. Wack a simpler after it, group the whole thing in a rack, assign macros to sample start and arpeggiator rate, tweak away...

dentaku
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Re: How to make the sound stutter ?

Post by dentaku » Tue Jun 23, 2009 12:36 am

Aha! doogs. I think I remember doing it that way too with an arpeggiator in Reason's NN-XT.
It's even more useful than the previous method because you can automate the size of the "chunks" plus you also have a gate length knob in the arpeggiator.

interpolate
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Re: How to make the sound stutter ?

Post by interpolate » Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:05 am

Anyone mention that if you drop the audio (it has to be long enough) in arrange, you can simply drag the bpm up and down then change the length of the clip?

And of course impulse has time.
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Re: How to make the sound stutter ?

Post by hurlingdervish » Tue Jun 23, 2009 8:04 pm

interpolate wrote:Anyone mention that if you drop the audio (it has to be long enough) in arrange, you can simply drag the bpm up and down then change the length of the clip?

And of course impulse has time.
yes i even uploaded a sample of what it sounds like

that start time thing is great for percussion parts, but i think thats not a very efficient way to get that granular stutter

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