Author Topic: Rhymically cut out vocals? (e.g. Crystal Castle: Violent Dreams)  (Read 5169 times)

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How do you rhytmically cut out vocals?

Here's a reference:

Crystal Castles - Violent Dreams
about 1:34
https://youtu.be/esRAdBdox3E?t=104

(Prefuse 73 does similar things.)

Is the sample chopped into a drum rack and then played like drums?
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Re: Rhymically cut out vocals? (e.g. Crystal Castle: Violent Dreams)
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2016, 02:14:35 pm »
There's a few good ways to do it. You can just put the audio directly onto your playlist and just cut-copy-paste the rhythm in, you can use Slice to MIDI (in Ableton) to convert the vocals into a bunch of samples and play around with the different slices, or you can just get a few phrases and play those melodically in a sampler.

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Re: Rhymically cut out vocals? (e.g. Crystal Castle: Violent Dreams)
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2016, 01:48:19 am »
FL Studio has a nice plugin called Slicex that does this well. Check and see if your DAW has anything similar to it.