vocal chops

[lucidlfe]

I've been hearing on the radio now a lot of rap songs having complex vocal chops i.e., nicki minaj, lil wayne, future, etc. They occur usually when a word is edited for explicit content. It sound very cool when they do it, and I am wondering if anyone here has experience and can shed light on how it is done?

[zsuffa]

Dont listen to the stuff you refered to, but since i came here for a somewhat similar question, i might aswell use this thread to put forward my questions regarding the same topic.

Im wondering what techniques to use to achive the kind of vocal chop melodic motifs that could be found for example here (most prominent @ 5.05)

Or in this one @1.33 which atleast sound like some kind of vocal chop to me, albeit it could ofc be something else.

Is it just about finding the right source material, or do they layer it with something like perhaps a copy of the source processed with some tool like melodyne or autotune to get that kind of semi-synthetic,yet still organic type of sound?

Any pointers would be appreciated.

[R3b_Official]

Something like this? (1:10)

Soundcloud

Working on tune and sampled from an old swing song from the 1930's, spent a good while chopping up the samples for the beginning and the end. I could explain a bit how i did it.

[Phatscout]

Dude, just take the Vocal you want to chop up, split it up into different little parts in Ableton (Ctrl+E all day erryday) and pitch them up and down with the transpose thingamaboober.

Nothing too hard dude.

[lucidlfe]

I think that's all it really is, but I'm just curios if there is some industry technique that is going around that people are doing. I'm sure most of this is done in pro tools after all.

[KRONIKAL]

You can do that using the slicex in fl studio for example using the auto slice function...you ve only to che if the vocal is bpm synced to your tempo if not you load it in the playlist and you fit it tempo and then record it with edison and reload it in the slicex then automating the pitch