FL7 and Stutter effects

[Dash Myoku]

Alright, I'm working on this remix and it has some pretty nice sounding strings swells. But, since the remix is mostly a chill electronic (I guess?) style, I wanna add some stutter effects to said strings. (The remix is in the remix section of these forums)

Now, I don't want the strings to stutter constantly...cause that'd be retarded. No, I want them to stutter a few times whilst building and dying. But also not so plain as that, either. Say one swell happens and it stutters a bit upon building...but it doesn't when it dies. The next doesn't stutter upon building, but it does as it dies...sort of thing.

Anyways, if you understand wtf I'm talking about and can help or point me in the direction of where I can read up on this, please let me know.

Thanks guys.

[zircon]

There are a lot of ways to do stutters. The two best ways would be as follows; you can bounce the audio down to WAV, import it as an audio clip and slice it up, repeating certain slices and making them shorster. Or, you can use the dblue Glitch plugin and program it so the Retrigger effect is soloed, and just make a good pattern with that (or automate the wet/dry mix.)

[big giant circles]

Andy's mostly covered it. I primarily use either slicing or the glitch plugin, which for the low price of free is definitely an awesome possibility. If you have a couple $$ to spend and want more flexibility, another pretty cool option I've recently been enjoying is Native Instruments "The Finger" plugin. It's kind of like glitch, but with a million more options, and you can actually play in the FX with your keyboard (or piano roll) as opposed to glitch, where the FX is pretty much on all the time and all you can do is automate the wet/dry when you need the effect.

[Sole Signal]

To add yet another way to do it, my usual procedure is to use Fruity Mute 2 and automate the On/Off knob in "Edit Events" within the pattern. Works best for my purposes.

[big giant circles]

That is also true. Furthermore, you could set up a gate using the Peak Controller and a 3osc channel. Look in your Projects/Tutorial folder for the "gate effect" and "peak controller (advanced)" project files. It never hurts to learn a couple/few ways to do something.

[Dash Myoku]

Wow, so many ways to do it. Thanks everyone, I'll be sure to explore all these different options and see what works best for me (or rather what I feel more comfortable with).

[Gario]

Wow, so many tools for gating? You can't just attach mixers to other mixers, set the auxs in the second mixer and automate the mute in the first mixer (or second, if you wanted the auxs to stay in effect)?

Someday I'll need to move out of my sheltered Reason 3.0 DAW to something a bit more professional, so I'd like to know if that trick is still possible .

[zircon]

Wait, keep in mind GATING is not stuttering. For stuttering BT-style you need to take one bit of audio and repeat it. You can do that with a granular sampler/effect like Glitch which buffers + retriggers, or by manually importing, slicing + copying bits...

[Gario]

Oh oh oh... sorry, BGC mentioned setting up a 'gate' and it threw me off there. Thanks for clearing that up, Zircon .

[big giant circles]

That is true, sorry for the confusion. You can get a nice stutter-ish sound from a gate though, that's why I threw that method in there as well. But Andy's right, stuttering is technically retriggering the same slice of audio very quickly, whereas gating is done to a continual instrument/sound clip. (Good for sustained notes).