Creating vocal chops
In this section, we’ll learn how to create vocal chops. Vocal chops are chopped-up fragments of vocal samples. You hear them most often in electronic dance music, and they are often applied to vocal samples after being processed through a vocoder.
If you’re unsure what vocal chops are, consider listening to some of the following songs, which use vocal chops:
- Porter Robinson & Madeon – Shelter
- Skrillex – First Of The Year (Equinox)
- Skrillex – Summit (feat. Ellie Goulding)
In the upcoming section, we will assume that you are creating vocal chops, but the same techniques can be used to chop up any audio sample. For example, you can just as easily slice up a guitar or drum audio sample.
If your aim is simple, you could slice and dice samples on the playlist just by cutting up a sample manually with the slice tool.
On any sample in the playlist, you can quickly chop up the sample by...
