Anyone out there got some unique ideas on how to chop and process vocal samples to create interesting lead instruments?

I usually just slice a few pieces of a dry vocal and re-sample them to pitch them up or down. Lately I've been trying to reverse the vocal before doing slices to get more interesting sounds and thought you guys might have some different ideas?

I love using the beatslicer in Guitar Rig and just messing around with the settings until it sounds cool

edit: oops i think i mistook your question for creating a melody with chopped/sliced vocals

(I'm assuming you're talking about vocals in Serum.)

With a little bit of work, you can get short monophonic vocals into Serum's wavetable synthesizer. If you scan through the wavetable at a constant speed while playing a note, it will actually reproduce the the vocal sample. So by applying an envelope, LFO, or manual automation to the wavetable position you can get a lot of different articulations off the same vocal.

From there, you can apply warp modes like Bend +/- or Asymmetry, or some FM from oscillator B (try a sine wave an octave above or an octave below!), and either change the tonality of the vocal or start modulating those and turn your vocal into a gnarly bass growl.

Also for an easy Melbourne Bounce lead, take a long vowel sound from a vocal, consolidate it to a new sample, load it into Serum, make it monophonic and apply a lot of glide and distortion.

With a little bit of work, you can get short monophonic vocals into Serum's wavetable synthesizer. If you scan through the wavetable at a constant speed while playing a note, it will actually reproduce the the vocal sample. So by applying an envelope, LFO, or manual automation to the wavetable position you can get a lot of different articulations off the same vocal.

I've been tossing up whether to buy Serum or not for a while but this probably made the decision for me - Sounds like a really cool way to make subtle (or not so subtle) changes to vocal samples.