what's up guys I've been trying a lot of things with
vocals lately chopping vocals and then messing with them with pitch shifts or
format shifts something that just makes these samples my own I've been listening
to a lot of Odessa and I try to mimic their sound in my latest song and use
some of these vocal chops so I'm going to show you how I did that today in just
a few easy steps now where do you find those vocals you can get stuff off of
sample libraries I use splice comm or you can record your own now I did two
things on this song first I actually used a sample that I already purchased
and second I recorded my own vocals I'll play a little bit for you so you can
hear what it sounds like in the finished mix
there are also some male vocals which of the vocals that I recorded myself in the
breakdown here's what that sounds like
now let's see how I actually put together those vocals now let's start
from the beginning I'm gonna start from a brand new track I'm opening a MIDI
track here because I'm going to use the simpler instrument in Ableton if you're
using another dog you could probably use a sampler so what I'm gonna do is I'm
going to drop that female vocal sample right in here from my splice library
it's this one I'm just gonna drag that over and drop it into simpler and here's
what that sounds like and now that kind of repeats a little bit through this
whole sample in just slight variations all I did is I want to slice and what
Ableton simpler does is it slices it to transients and you can adjust the
sensitivity which is what I did
so ableton does an okay job at slicing it automatically but you can actually go
in and slice it further to whatever your liking is so if I want to use this
sample here and I said and I want to adjust the start point I can adjust the
start point and I can just the endpoint as well so
let's say I'm satisfied with the different parts I have what I did next
is I sliced two drum kits so i just right-clicked this and I say slice two
drum rack sorry not drum kit drum rack now once
you do that it takes all the slices that you've created and creates a drum rack
out of it so now you can play this the really nice part is now you can adjust
each of these slices individually if I just have this one but I'm thinking well
I need to transpose this because in the hook that I have in my mind I want this
note to be higher so I can transpose it right down here
that's just transpose one up and go many up there you go so you can play around a
lot just with simpler but I wanted to try out some other tools with this song
and I tried out two plugins the one that you may have already seen in one of my
videos it's by soundToys and it's the little altar boy plugin so now if I
apply little altar boys of this slice I can change the format if you lower the
format it sounds more like a male voice if you make it higher it sounds more
female or if you make it too high it sounds like a chipmunk
but I've lowered it a little bit let's hear that slice again
much lower now if I wanted to I can change the pitch and the format together
let's try that I'll put the pitch up by one what I really like about the little
altar boy plug-in is that you can also add Drive it adds a little nice little
something now in addition to the little altar boy I also tried out another
plugin and it's by Z plane it's called elastic pitch I'm gonna add that here as
well and I'm gonna turn off little altar boy now I didn't actually purchase this
plugin I just have the demo so you might see demo flash and the sound go in and
out a little bit the link down here links the tambour and the pitch so now
if I move this they'll both move automatically because they're linked
let's hear that slice again raise it again now if you wanted to adjust these
independently you'll turn off this link and now I can adjust the temperately and
the pitch separately so I can keep the pitch where the original sample was and
I'll change the tambour and it sounds like this
so you hear that elastic pitch does something different it also has a delay
built-in and the feedback on delay so
but other than that there were some very interesting sound results that I got out
of using elastic pitch so I did like it if you're willing to spend one hundred
and ninety one dollars and twenty one cents then elastic pitch is a really
nice tool but for just getting some vocals to modify a little bit I really
like the little altar boy little altar boy is currently $99 and the z-plane
elastic pitch is one hundred and ninety one dollars and twenty one cents once
you've used either one of these tools to adjust your samples then you're gonna
actually play the tune and that's what I did here so here's the finished tune
that I came up with by playing this drum rack then what I ended up doing is
recording this to the track here so I'm just dealing with an audio file now
let's take a look at the male vocals now these are the vocals that I sang and
then I sliced up chopped up
and then they appear also in the final chorus
let's hear what the original sounded like she says but I also think I never
met someone who was worth before okay it sounds like absolute like nonsense what
am i singing where did I get this from here's an interesting thing if you're
gonna sing your own vocals and you don't want to write lyrics so I had this
magazine lying around and I just picked an article oh yeah hey you actually use
this one it's still open and I just sang in the key of this song whatever came
out using the words of the article and the article says but don't be fooled the
giddy highs and lows of singledom are fast becoming a distant memory I just
picked random sentences and I started to sing them so I just sang like a whole
paragraph out of here threw it into simpler and then just started messing
around with the slices and now when you hear it playing those pieces are no
after I found the slices that I liked I wanted to change the way it sounded a
bit so I added auto-tune just to get those right on the notes and also have a
little bit of that auto-tune effect and I compressed it then I started adding
the little altar boy and what I did with little altar boys I just changed the
format to sound a little bit lower so it kind of ended up sounding like really
like someone else
she says and then after that to make it sound a little nicer in the mix I added
echoboy jr. I added the cheap tape echo preset then I added the little plate
which is another soundToys reverb IEQ the lows out so I'm just keeping the
highs and that's it ended up sounding like this and I was really happy with
how that sounded
so there you go that's how you can create nice vocal chops for a song like
Odessa but you know what when I finish this song I didn't feel like it sounded
like Odessa it sounded like me kind of sounded like something I typically
create and that's okay too no matter what you learn from other
people your sound is gonna end up being your sound make it your own
get your style out there and share the stuff that you make if you like this
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you love I'll see you guys later