Feezing/extending a vocal - ableton

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Freezing/extending a vocal - ableton

Using ableton

Im trying to create the effect of freezing a vocal that sounds almost like a loop but without the repeat sound

@ 2:48

'why dont you kill meeeeeeeeeemeeeeeeeemeeeee" doesnt sound like a loop but more of a freeze effect

I couldnt find any tutorials or info in forums. maybe im using the wrong terminology

Any Ideas?

I feel like it could be some sort of clean reverb or reverse reverb

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I can’t watch youtube on my work computer so I’m not sure if this is exactly what your looking for, but I used to take acapellas and cut out a tiny section (maybe a few wavelengths) and open that up in a sample and set it to loop and essentially use it as a vocal synth. It has varying results depending on your sample. I’ve had good results with Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber vocals though (don’t judge me for doing avant-garde remixes of a 15 year old girl’s idols.)

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not exactly what I’m looking for but I tried it out and its a cool idea.

thanks for the tip

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all that was is cropping the end of the “me” and looping it

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alright i’ll keep messin around with the loop and see if i can get what i want out of it.

thanks

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Yeah, sounds like it’s just a repeated loop in the song you posted. Try taking shorter/longer snippets and looping them, sometimes you can also create interesting rhythm effects by taking marginally different samples (like a ms left or right) and pasting in the arrange view, even though this wasn’t the effect you were going for, it could be cool.

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ya i managed to get 90% of the way there…thanks for the help. i shouldnt have given up on the loop idea in the first place

I ended up warping it and then looping the tail. once the area I wanted it to repeat wasnt so short it sounded much nicer

thanks for all the help

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Get the length you want and loop it then throw some effects over it to get it sounding just how you want it. You can throw a Delay on the end to trail it out or I would play around with some filters. Also you could try stacking the loops. Play each loop overlapping just a millisecond or two. Sometimes can produce a cool effect.