How do you get that choppy sound?

[Edened]

I was just wondering how you get that nice choppy glitchy sound. The kind that's usually in breaks (breakbeat) and glitchhop.

Here's an example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIMNnzanKeg
Here's another
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj5x4ZdX-r0
Here's a good one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4-G-4Y0 ... re=related

Anyway. Yeah. Halp.

[Captain Ironhelm]

Gross Beat by Image-Line is an option.

I've heard people like a free program called Glitch as well.

[colortwelve]

Something just occurred to me, but I've yet to try it. I'll post an example tomorrow if I get around to trying it myself, but:

1. Make a pattern of your lead or chord progression or whatever.
2. Render it as an audio clip.
3. Slice it, reverse it, do whatever. You now have a resource in the context of your own track that you can use to make glitchy bits.

I really hope this works when I get around to trying it

[Freewave]

Well there's various glitch effect vsts you can use dblue glitch is one of the more popular ones.


some stuttering effects you can get through gateing and fl love filter even.

[Navron]

Slicing and chopping audio files is the old school way of making glitch.

[natsukashi]

Slicing and chopping audio files is the only way of making glitch.

I fixed that for you.

Please only use dblueGlitch as a tool of reference to the various glitching techniques. If you want actual control over the shape and the possibility of multiple cool rythms, just slice them up, reverse them, record them to tape and destroy the tape, burn them to CDs and rub salt on the CDs and rerecord using an old CD player which can't tell if a disc is broken or not and/or gate them (modulate volume really fast in a square pattern. 0 to 100%)

And when doing breakbeat and specifically breakcore+IDM, you want total control of the choppyness. Nothing will ever beat traditional waveform-fucking.

[Artimeus]

Slicing and chopping audio files is the only way of making glitch.

I fixed that for you.

Please only use dblueGlitch as a tool of reference to the various glitching techniques. If you want actual control over the shape and the possibility of multiple cool rythms, just slice them up, reverse them, record them to tape and destroy the tape, burn them to CDs and rub salt on the CDs and rerecord using an old CD player which can't tell if a disc is broken or not and/or gate them (modulate volume really fast in a square pattern. 0 to 100%)

And when doing breakbeat and specifically breakcore+IDM, you want total control of the choppyness. Nothing will ever beat traditional waveform-fucking.

You forgot the part where you throw a cat in a blender, record the sound, and win a Grammy.

[soultensionbenjamin]

swag i love this sound

[natsukashi]

You forgot the part where you throw a cat in a blender, record the sound, and win a Grammy.

I do not condone animal cruelty.

[Edened]

Gross Beat by Image-Line is an option.

Yeah I've used Gross Beat before. It just doesn't sound that good IMO.

Well there's various glitch effect vsts you can use dblue glitch is one of the more popular ones. some stuttering effects you can get through gateing and fl love filter even.

Nice video, definitely going to check that out.


Thanks for all the help everyone, glitchhop and the sort are my favorite genre yet I have no idea how to make it. I appreciate it

[CDPP]

Gross Beat by Image-Line is an option.

I've heard people like a free program called Glitch as well.

Heh, the only song I know that uses Gross beat is Derezzed, and that was only 1:40 minutes long :v

[Kromium]

Doctrine got the choppy sound by turning on and off the track using automation within Ableton live... just another option if you don't have a gate.

[Whitetail]

Experimentation really is the only option, just play with things and see how they sound
You could even do it with automating the volume on a track if you wanted to do things the manual way

Though I'd suggest going with what Colourtwelve said, messing around with the audio directly should give you the most control over HOW the chopping is working, that being said you sacrifice a lot of options for sound editing for it.