Any pros at glitching out there?

[Obstreperous Synapse]

I need help with vocals. Splicing and all that jazz.
I have FL Studio. So how do you alter voices? How do you get it to have that underwater sound? Echo? How do? I'm almost certain you have to have a special vst to do this stuff.
How does one successfully incorporate pony vocals into an already sexy instrumental?
Tell me how you do any of these things, or insert your own queries.
What do you use, and what are some examples of your work?

I don't plan on being an amazing brony musician, I only want to make one or two songs to prove that I can.

I really like the vocals in this, but I just don't know how to do it.

[Expy]

You could manually cut and paste (the classic way) but I would recommend using Slicex like Kyoga said. It'll cut a vocal sample into a number of sections, you can then rearrange them for the glitch effect.

Alternatively (or even in conjunction with Slicex), you could use dBlue glitch, a free and quite powerful glitch plugin. It's also very easy to work out.

I don't know anything about autotuning except that Melodyne is the best one. You may or may not need to autotune. You probably won't, but it depends on what you're slicing.

[Expy]

glitching by cut and paste = painfully slow work

True that. Slicex is a much better option.

[Obstreperous Synapse]

I love you guys.

Does anyone ever do livestreams of them making music? That would be interesting~

[Expy]

Some do, especially the big ones like Tombstone and Alex S. There's no way I would. Pretty certain I do everything the wrong way, haha.

[natsukashi]

Please don't use dblue for the glitching effect. It's so very blatant that it's slowly becoming Comic-sancancer ;w;

[natsukashi]

Yes, but that's you. =w=

[ph00tbag]

I can't really disagree with natsukashi a whole lot more. dblue is a tool, like anything else. If you don't know how to use it, your results will not be under your control. The thing that's nice about it is that it lets you apply any one of multiple effects for a brief period, and it's just one VST. Now, it's certainly rather limited, and really complicated stuff is still going to require some extra noodling, but for zero dollars, you've got a pretty stacked package.

Otherwise, SliceX is going to be your go-to tool for any kind of cutting and shuffling. I believe you can do stretch work with it, too, but I've never really experimented with it much beyond that.

[natsukashi]

But the use of dblue sounds like "I am a lazy bastard that can't program my own glitches so I have to depend on someone elses work to be able to do it."

inb4 ad absurdum

[Obstreperous Synapse]

But the use of dblue sounds like "I am a lazy bastard that can't program my own glitches so I have to depend on someone elses work to be able to do it."

inb4 ad absurdum

So how do you do your glitching?
If you even do that.

[natsukashi]

But the use of dblue sounds like "I am a lazy bastard that can't program my own glitches so I have to depend on someone elses work to be able to do it."

inb4 ad absurdum

So how do you do your glitching?
If you even do that.

Ya take the waveform, ya chop it, speed it up, transpose it, reverse it, modulate volume automation and so on. It's not really hard. =w=

[ph00tbag]

Lazy. Time-saving. You can choose to be supercilious about it, I guess. I usually just go with what works.

The show all of this music is for is made in Flash, if it means anything.

[natsukashi]

Yes, I am part of glitching master race and I do not approve of dblue. I am also against the concept of wanting to plow through tracks as fast as possible. Why not actually take time and carefully craft your music? >_>

[ph00tbag]

You say that like no one uses dBlue carefully.

[natsukashi]

I have yet to find one instance other than Solar Fields Mirror's Edge OST and Silvia Hounds Junebug (which only used it for the tapestops, an effect arguably hard to emulate without a standalone, though possible. Me, being master race do them manually, of course) that hasn't removed the charm of a track due to blatant dblue use. I can barely listen to Mike Sherindan anymore because it's now basically ambient with dblue slapped on it.

I mean, it's like slapping a trancegate on something and then claim you make trance when in effect, you have not done anything.

Or slapping a soundgoodizer on the master and claimed that you've mixed your song.

[ph00tbag]

So it has been used well, then?

[thatguyzeke]

Guys guys.....audacity is where it's at.....

[natsukashi]

So it has been used well, then?

Yes, I do not deny that.

Kyoga: Yes!

[Legion]

I have yet to find one instance other than Solar Fields Mirror's Edge OST and Silvia Hounds Junebug (which only used it for the tapestops, an effect arguably hard to emulate without a standalone, though possible. Me, being master race do them manually, of course) that hasn't removed the charm of a track due to blatant dblue use. I can barely listen to Mike Sherindan anymore because it's now basically ambient with dblue slapped on it.

I mean, it's like slapping a trancegate on something and then claim you make trance when in effect, you have not done anything.

Or slapping a soundgoodizer on the master and claimed that you've mixed your song.

I mean, it's like slapping a trancegate on something and then claim you make trance when in effect, you have not done anything.

WHOOPS