Five minutes to a vocal chop riff? Yes please!
One of the biggest sounds in today's pop and EDM is vocal chops. In this tutorial
I'm gonna show you in five minutes how to get a wicked vocal chop riff like
this...
There are other ways to achieve vocal chops but this is the way I do it for
the quickest results so without further ado let's hop into the DAW and get it
done. So if you just want to kind of embellish the vocal tract that's already
there rather than doing a completely fresh vocal chop riff which we're going
to look at in another video this is what I did for this one so the first thing to
do is make sure that you've got the correct warp mode selected so select
complex Pro make sure it's all in sync with your track and then add your
embellishment so I'm going to create a new audio track I'm gonna call it vocal
FX because I can't be bothered to type embellishments then I'm going to slice
this body because that's what I want to be delayed so I hold command Ernie to
slice it then I'm gonna hold alt and drag it in to my new track where I want
the delay to happen which would probably be there but I want it pitch down so
what I'm gonna do is I'm going to go to transpose minus 12 that's minus 12
semitones which is a whole octave and then you can play with this formants as
well so this is how it sounds at the moment pitch down but if we put the
formants to zero you've got that kind of deep male voice almost so now here's
what we
and then I want nice to be delayed as well but in a different way so I'm just
gonna I just want the beginning of it delayed so I'm going to grab it bring it
down onto my effects track and then do a bit of kind of sample repeat effect on
it and I want it to be a kind of staccato stutter so I'm just gonna fade
it out to make it into a stab rather than a sustain sound and then the last
one I'm going to extend it so it is actually a full delay so now we have got
except I'm going to add a bit of stereo width there and for that I'm going to
use the completely free ozone imager by isotope you can just download it from
their website it's a great little plugin and I'm gonna add some stereo width to
this I'm gonna press the stereo eyes button and then up the width and if
you're listening in stereo you can hear how wide that now sounds so now we have
this effect
which is pretty cool and then I'm going to add some added pitch bends to make it
a bit more interesting a bit more like a vocal chop and a DJ snake type loop and
what I'm going to do is again chop the bits
chop the vocal on the transient in fact I just I'm just going to use that that
first syllable I'm going to copy sorry I'm going to drag it so it's hits
exactly on time
and again I want this to be a kind of staccato hit and then I'm going to show
you what I do with the pitch again it's on complex Pro and then we can play with
the transpose and each one step is a semitone or one semitone is obviously a
semitone so let's have a listen and if you want you can actually write out a
rhythm in a MIDI instrument just like a grand piano to help you as a template
when you're adjusting the pitch because and you know it can be a bit confusing
I'm kind of I know what I want baby know what that one's go down baby
so now we've got anybody feeling in the night
and if you fancy a different sound rather than the same chop repeated you
can just grab a chop from somewhere else so let's bring it back and see what
so that is how I do a vocal chop in about five minutes I hope you enjoyed it
stay tuned for the next video when I will show you how to do vocal chops with
a bit more control but it does take longer using a sampler when I've done
that video I will post it in one of these boxes that are about to pop up if
you want to know how to write really catchy melodies really quickly with no
music theory background check out the video below and in five minutes you'll
be well on your way I hope you enjoyed this video guys don't forget to give it
a thumbs up thanks for subscribing and until next time Cheers and happy
producing