Vocal manipulation with Ableton Simplers. from wiretotheear on Vimeo.
There are thousands of ways to mangle audio in weird and wild sound. Here’s a screencast of a trick I sometimes put to work. Here is the end result (4 samples are loaded in this player):
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Here is the original sample I used:
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The technique uses multiple Ableton Simplers in a Device Group. If your an Ableton wizard you will know this stuff but if your not a regular user of Simpler and Macros you will learn something.
Sample credit: Incarnadine
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Thanks, Oliver, wonderful tutorial!
Btw, loading samples into Sampler opens up further sound design possibilities.
nice tnx!
…but take it easy with those mousecliks :)
Click click! Growing up my father used get pissed at me for pushing buttons on the clicker non-stop.
Click click! Cool demo but rather depressing with all the “death” playback. Thanks though!
Thank you very much! Very inspirational!
Actually, this inspired me to try the “tip & trick” on the puremagnetik site for using the Live 7 “slice to new midi track” feature to chop up a vocal sample. I recorded myself reading a short passage with a pause between word (to make it easier to identify individual words) and then set a warp marker at the start of each word. Next, I sliced to a new midi track with the setting “Create one slice per warp marker”. This filled up a drum rack with all the individual words, which gives me a lot to work with.
GReat stuff, thanks for this tutorial
Cheers from Argentina
Hector Lopez
Hi Oliver, thanks for the tutorial. I was trying to do this in both simpler AND sampler… but I couldn’t get the samples to play back for me! Could you help? Thank you.
Sure Adrian… what exactly are you have trouble with?
How do you get such a good bottom end in your mouse click? Are you using a HP filter and some Tube OD?
JK, great tip, gotta try it out!
You just made my day. Thank you.