strobe like effect.

[Leroy Skibone]

What do you mean by Strobe Like effect?

how can i get a sttrob like effect in live 8?

kind of hard to explain, think of a strobe light but in a sound sense. i really cant a explain it. lol

This might be easier in a video tutorial but I'm not setup for that.
I'm an Ableton newbie and I consider this the first cool thing I've done.
I've tried what other people suggested here and although their solutions are easier, it doesn't give the effect I was looking for and achieved. Here is what I did.
Set up a track (I used track 8 ) with a drum pattern. I used the snare from Impulse/Acoustic/Backbeat. There may be better options. I wanted something loud with a quick attack and almost immediate end. Have that snare play 16 times in a bar. Ok - so now that that track is playing the snare on a loop, turn that track off so you don't hear it.
Now you have an audio track playing on track 1 that you want 'strobed'. Add Gate from Audio Effects. Select Sidechain.
Audio from track 8 (your drum track). Then play with the hold and release values for different strobe effects.
I use a little bit of it in this mix:
http://house-mixes.com/mixes/playmix/89320/play.aspx
It's used a bit in the beginning during Phantom and some more near the end around 117:45 (and probably overused at various places in between)

Then you even edit/create new drum tracks with different patterns using open and closed hi-hats to get effects similar to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo9k_5B5UsA

[sowhoso]

tremolo...turns a sound on and off

[simpli.cissimus]

Sounds cool to me !!!

Have to try this too...

Cheers

[House Food]

I usually take impulse and place a kick or a hi hat on every 8th or 16th note and sidechain it into a gate

[outershpongolia]

I suppose you could use whatever you want as the side chain source, mute it, and make whatever patterns you want in a few MIDI clips and use them as sort of gate chopper dummy clips, need to try this one out..