How do i add a stutter effect to certain notes?

Dizzo · Post by **Dizzo** » Tue Aug 13, 2013 5:45 am

The kind of stutter effect im looking for is in the song below. The syth gets brought in right at 3:33 kinda in the background but it doesnt really start to stutter until about 3:53. I use logic and im not sure if theres a plugin for this or if the notes are just cut out or what? Ive tried cutting the notes up but it just kinda sounds like its starting a new note and not really stuttering

Any help would be great

Synth starts at 3:33 and starts to stutter at 3:53
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Lektrone · Post by **Lektrone** » Tue Aug 13, 2013 6:28 am

I'm sitting at work right now so I'm not really able to check out the track you mentioned, but there are definitely a few ways to go about getting a stutter effect. If you're working in Ableton, you can try using the Beat Repeat effect. Other methods include bouncing that particular piece of MIDI down into an audio track, sampling your new audio clip, and messing around with your looping parameters. It's either that, or you could take the bounced audio and chop it up yourself in your arrangement (which is my preffered method). Which DAW are you using?

Dizzo · Post by **Dizzo** » Tue Aug 13, 2013 6:40 am

Im using logic and im pretty sure it doesnt have beat repeat but theres gotta be a plugin for logic that does that but i dont know which plugin it is? but i never thought to bounce the audio and chop it up that way but that totally makes sense. Im gonna have to experiment with that

audiowaves · Post by **audiowaves** » Tue Aug 13, 2013 6:47 am

sounds like a simple lfo to me that's opening the cutoff of a lowpassfilter and maybe a bit of volume automation on the osc

Add9 · Post by **Add9** » Tue Aug 13, 2013 7:20 am

Well if you want it to stutter in a pattern like 16th notes or triplets or something then just throw the Logic autofilter on there, link the LFO to a lowpass filter, choose the square wave and then adjust the rate to whatever you want. Then automate the bypass so it only acts on certain notes. Or if you want a more irregular pattern then you could just chop the audio up manually.

Oh and no need to apologize for your sig track not being EDM, haha. I would bet that some of people on this forum hate the term EDM actually.

Dizzo · Post by **Dizzo** » Tue Aug 13, 2013 7:54 am

I figured it doesnt hurt to apologize just incase tiesto reads it haha but that sounds like another good way to get some stutter. Next time start up a beat ill try that

audiowaves · Post by **audiowaves** » Tue Aug 13, 2013 8:20 am

so...which synth are you talking about

the low one which is very prominent at 2:30

the lead on 4:20

or the vocals that are cut and sliced to make a stutter effect...

Dizzo · Post by **Dizzo** » Tue Aug 13, 2013 8:53 am

^ Its actually neither of those. The very low one that your talking about around 2:30 is really cool sounding and just has bassnectar written all over it. I figure thats probably both a combination of an envelope and an LFO routed to a lowpass filter so that way it kinda has a bit of a wobble while its gaining frequencies (i could be totally wrong there but if i had to recreate that, thats where i would start). And the second one you metioned at 4:20

which is also at the very beginning of the track really just kinda sounds like its got some echo or delay to it rather than a stutter. And i can tell by the vocal samples that theyre just chopped up very finely and kinda maybe overlapped a bit. But the sound that im really curious about hits right at 3:33 and its really high pitched and just blends in with the overall sound so fricken well you can barely notice it (but thats just because bassnectars godly) and it lasts for maybe three bars (this is at 100bpm so its a snare on every 2 and 4) and then it hits again right at 3:43 and does the same thing, it lasts about 3 bars. And then it hits again at 3:53 only this time it stutters and it stutters really well and i really have no idea how its done aside from the suggestions people have left on this post.

NinjaEdit · Post by **NinjaEdit** » Tue Aug 13, 2013 11:21 am

If it's what I think it is, the pitch is bending from one note to another. You could do this with a setting like "gliss" or "legato." Have the first note overlap the second, so that it bends to it rather than retriggering.

You could also use the pitch bend wheel.

Dizzo · Post by **Dizzo** » Tue Aug 13, 2013 8:08 pm

But it sounds like its the same note though

NinjaEdit · Post by **NinjaEdit** » Wed Aug 14, 2013 1:15 am

I think the pitch is changing. Maybe a resonant filter is moving.

I think it has a fast, low-feedback delay, like a slap-back.

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