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For anyone who wants to get that skrillex vocal chop type of feel and doesn't know how this is how i do it,

I took a track of a girl singing, then duplicated it a few times so you get a few different tracks with the same sample in the sampler, started my sample on each of those duplicated tracks on a different moment in the sample, so you get a few different samples. you can then play them on different notes on your keyboard too, make a melody, then add a new track and set input to 'resample', record, delete the other miditracks, and then you have that kind of melody.

So basically just playing out your melody with the sample, and resampling it so you have it. I never knew it was this easy

mind putting it up to see how it sounds?

acrap wrote:mind putting it up to see how it sounds?

im working on a collab im doing at the moment but if i have time later i will for sure.

acrap wrote:mind putting it up to see how it sounds?

^this

I have an idea, but i'm curious to hear what you came up with

Gurnumsbug wrote:

acrap wrote:mind putting it up to see how it sounds?

^this

I have an idea, but i'm curious to hear what you came up with

I took nightvision by veela and chopped it up ill post it later.

Yeah this is pretty much what (I think maybe malleus) was shown in a youtube tut for Reason in the NNXT. Without the resampling part but same idea. Don't have the link right now bit it's easy to find in a youtube search..

an easy go to way of making a melody with chopped up vocals is just find each vowel sound in the acapella and load it into a sampler/vocoder and pitch accordingly.

raige wrote:an easy go to way of making a melody with chopped up vocals is just find each vowel sound in the acapella and load it into a sampler/vocoder and pitch accordingly.

hm never even thought of that ahah, guess everyone just does it their own way but same idea.

Autotune the fuck out of it
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i just want to know..
why is this technique referred to here as the "SKRILLEX" style of chopping vocals? people did it way before him, yeears ago.. i thought this sort of technique was intuitive.

I can never come to dsf without seeing the name skrillex now...

narcissus wrote:i just want to know..
why is this technique referred to here as the "SKRILLEX" style of chopping vocals? people did it way before him, yeears ago.. i thought this sort of technique was intuitive.

Cause he made it popular, who cares anyways.

ogunslinger wrote:I can never come to dsf without seeing the name skrillex now...

Like

Vocals are the funnest things to mess around with in a daw for me! SOOO FUN, all daaayyy.

Codox wrote:

raige wrote:an easy go to way of making a melody with chopped up vocals is just find each vowel sound in the acapella and load it into a sampler/vocoder and pitch accordingly.

hm never even thought of that ahah, guess everyone just does it their own way but same idea.

just listen to scary monsters and nice sprites. the way he does it is he has some distinguishable words and then makes a short melody with different chopped up vowels. there's plenty of other ways to go about doing it as well. that's just my preferred one.

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I load up an acapella, reverse it, find interesting vowels and chop it up until there is an interesting melody forming. Then I'll pitch the whole thing up using ableton's transpose function. Everything is done in audio. I've found that the simpler I keep my workflow, the better.

Codox wrote:For anyone who wants to get that skrillex vocal chop type of feel and doesn't know how this is how i do it,

I took a track of a girl singing, then duplicated it a few times so you get a few different tracks with the same sample in the sampler, started my sample on each of those duplicated tracks on a different moment in the sample, so you get a few different samples. you can then play them on different notes on your keyboard too, make a melody, then add a new track and set input to 'resample', record, delete the other miditracks, and then you have that kind of melody.

So basically just playing out your melody with the sample, and resampling it so you have it. I never knew it was this easy

I bet Skrillex uses a drum rack and his trigger finger.

GothamHero wrote:

Codox wrote:For anyone who wants to get that skrillex vocal chop type of feel and doesn't know how this is how i do it,

I took a track of a girl singing, then duplicated it a few times so you get a few different tracks with the same sample in the sampler, started my sample on each of those duplicated tracks on a different moment in the sample, so you get a few different samples. you can then play them on different notes on your keyboard too, make a melody, then add a new track and set input to 'resample', record, delete the other miditracks, and then you have that kind of melody.

So basically just playing out your melody with the sample, and resampling it so you have it. I never knew it was this easy

I bet Skrillex uses a drum rack and his trigger finger.

hahaha most likely.

Bit of an aside, but check this video re vocal sample manipulation;




Whole video is quite cool, 2m20s for the vocal stabs controlled via MIDI controller if that's what you're after.