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b_elliott

b_elliott

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A question to those who know....

Here is a snippet of a sound I am trying to create (Short Example).

My question is how to create such an effect using a synth and fx processors?

Is it samples with no sustain, quick release? Or, is it achieved through compression? Or, or, or. :thumbsdown:

If you know of a Youtube tutorial covering this query, I'd appreciate a link(s).

Best, Bill
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Usually a combination of things, trance gates, filters, tape stops. I highly recommend Meldaproduction MRythmizer for this. The multiband version is even more fun. Izotope have something similar I think. (I guess it’s in MSF as well? Never checked)
 
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b_elliott said:
A question to those who know....

Here is a snippet of a sound I am trying to create (Short Example).

My question is how to create such an effect using a synth and fx processors?

Is it samples with no sustain, quick release? Or, is it achieved through compression? Or, or, or. :thumbsdown:

If you know of a Youtube tutorial covering this query, I'd appreciate a link(s).

Best, Bill
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Perhaps this will help. This guy is a master of chop-synthing. https://www.youtube.com/c/SeamlessR
 
Thanks Doc and Marcus. That is exactly what I needed to know.

SilentOnAll how could I have forgotten Seamlessr. Time to revisit after several years away from his site. Thanks!

When I just now listened to Melda's MrthymizerMB audio example; it reminds me of Breaktweaker which I have from several BF's ago.
The Mrhythmizer sounds right for what I want -- lookee here on sale this week! Cool.
 
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Thanks Doc and Marcus. That is exactly what I needed to know.

When I just now listened to Melda's MrthymizerMB audio example; it reminds me of Breaktweaker which I have from several BF's ago.
The Mrhythmizer sounds right for what I want -- lookee here on sale this week! Cool.
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Check MSF to see if you couldn’t just load up MRythmizer in there as well, and go all Inception on your dubstep loops, much like loading MDrummer inside MSF ;)
 
doctoremmet said:
Check MSF to see if you couldn’t just load up MRythmizer in there as well, and go all Inception on your dubstep loops, much like loading MDrummer inside MSF ;)
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See my Licecap video. Could be named something differently, so I am missing what I do have?? The joys of noobness!
 

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Dunno if you've found this already:

Doesn't really spill all the beans about the bass, but I think it does show that it's just standard dubstep bass stuff, resampled.
 
One option is Effectrix from Sugar Bytes.

It has a "Vinyl" slot that makes the tape stop thing.

Effectrix | Effects Sequencer with 14 effects.

Effectrix is a professional and versatile multi-effect sequencer. The palette of algorithms spans from refined classics like loopers, vinyl effects and stutters over to modulated madness. Each effect has two modulation tracks, which can be drawn by hand, controlled via LFO, envelope follower or...
sugar-bytes.de sugar-bytes.de
 
One much too obvious thing I would like to point out, before making a few alternatives I like to use:
I once watched an interview with an artist I liked and he started talking about his process for glitchy effects (in this case stuttered and chopped up sample playback) and I was very surprised to hear him say that he just cuts it up manually in the DAW.
At the time I was so glad to have found FX and hardware which allowed me to perform these things that I couldn't believe people actually liked do to that manually.

However...
Maschine has a wide array of performance oriented glitch and granular FX.
The Reaktor user library is also full of them
Blinksonic does wonderful stuff in that area too
 
Crowe said:
www.audiopluginsforfree.com

Glitch 1.3 (Distortion, Flanger, FSU, Lo Fi, Modulation, Multi FX, Phaser, Ring Modulator) • Audio Plugins for Free

Glitch from DBlue (Kieran Foster) is a great multi-effect processor with some unique features that enables it to stand out from the long list of available free VST effects.
www.audiopluginsforfree.com www.audiopluginsforfree.com

There's a newer, paid version that's probably also good.
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I honestly wouldn’t recommend Glitch, it’s not bad by any means but it shows it’s age, I have it and I hardly ever use it these days, Sutter Edit 2 is really the best on the market
 
b_elliott said:
A question to those who know....

Here is a snippet of a sound I am trying to create (Short Example).

My question is how to create such an effect using a synth and fx processors?

Is it samples with no sustain, quick release? Or, is it achieved through compression? Or, or, or. :thumbsdown:

If you know of a Youtube tutorial covering this query, I'd appreciate a link(s).

Best, Bill
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That Wubby sound is some soft of MSGE (multi stage envelope generator) modulating filter cutoff. Weird "WIRRRRR" sound I've never been able to figure that one out. But, it's just a standard on off amp envelope cutting it off.

Xfer's OOT compressor is giving it a modern edge and loud sound.

Trance gates and stuff are cool but they tend imo to put you into a groove that's hard to break out of. For glitch effects, believe it or not, the plugins like reverse, transgates, ect are just kind of lazy man tools for how it should really be done which is to record that shit to audio and start coping it up like like it's 1999. That way you have total control over each bit of audio, you can reverse it, put a tape stop on it, pitch it, sweep it, pan it, stutter it, filter it. Working with audio directly gives you a lot of freedom, ect... It's the reason non destructive editing was created.

Damn, I date myself.
 
José Herring said:
That Wubby sound is some soft of MSGE (multi stage envelope generator) modulating filter cutoff. Weird "WIRRRRR" sound I've never been able to figure that one out. But, it's just a standard on off amp envelope cutting it off.

Xfer's OOT compressor is giving it a modern edge and loud sound.

Trance gates and stuff are cool but they tend imo to put you into a groove that's hard to break out of. For glitch effects, believe it or not, the plugins like reverse, transgates, ect are just kind of lazy man tools for how it should really be done which is to record that shit to audio and start coping it up like like it's 1999. That way you have total control over each bit of audio, you can reverse it, put a tape stop on it, pitch it, sweep it, pan it, stutter it, filter it. Working with audio directly gives you a lot of freedom, ect... It's the reason non destructive editing was created.

Damn, I date myself.
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Cool. I am nearing the stage "arrangement is done" so likely will try a combo of the suggested tools; however, the manual 90's mode oddly seems more promising for what I want.
Thanks for this data!
 
b_elliott said:
Cool. I am nearing the stage "arrangement is done" so likely will try a combo of the suggested tools; however, the manual 90's mode oddly seems more promising for what I want.
Thanks for this data!
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I do a combination of both, for the metal stuff I do I always chop up my riffs and create stutters and glitchy stuff by hand, but then I’ll use Stutter Edit 2 as a MIDI controlled effect and then I can get even crazier
 
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