Are there any faster ways to create reverse vocal swells other than slapping a 100% reverb on a vocal, bouncing it and reversing the file?

that's pretty much it.

A quicker way would be to bounce as a loop so you get the area of the effect rather than the entire song

Dang I was hoping there was some faster way to do it :/ Some sort of plugin I was hoping.

Studio One can bounce/freeze a clip directly to a new track, it makes this sort of thing really fast. Is this not a common feature in DAWs? I miss it in FL studio for sure.

It is, but it's very daw specific.

like if you're talking about right clicking freeze>bounce sort of thing.

You can also send the track to an effect channel (bus or a channel of the mixer;parallel process, bussing,groups) and set that effect channel to record to another channel and capture it that way. IDK if you can record the effect straight up, but that seems more like freezing then bouncing/render.

I don't think bounce-reverse thing is slow at all. Think about what they had to do for similar effects back then. Record vocal to a tape, play it back through reverb, record that to another tape, play it reversed, record that to another tape and then mix that in with the rest.

I don't think there's a much easier way to do it but some DAWs definitely make it easier than others.

I totally get what you mean, I tend to procrastinate doing it because bouncing things to me just seems like a lot of work and like I'm using hard drive space holding samples that I'll likely never use (let's forget about the thousands of downloaded samples I have actually never used...).

However it's really not that bad. I just have a "Project Specific" subfolder in my "Samples" folder that holds a million tiny little samples that I need. Most named "_____ Reverb", haha.