There’s this effect that I’ve heard in a couple of songs. The best way that I can describe it is the way that some video game characters talk (especially animal crossing) where they’re speaking gibberish but it also sounds robotic somehow.

Two songs with an example of this sound:

My Head Hurts -strxwberrymilk

Sunshine Recorder -Boards of Canada

For the first one, the sound I’m talking about comes in at about 1:30, and for the second it comes in at about 2:50.

Really interested in recreating this sound. Any ideas as to how to achieve this are welcome.

Edit: found the exact sound I was looking for. It’s called Glitch and is a plugin: https://illformed.org/

  • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    For the strxwberrymilk example, maybe you can just speed up a recorded voice and play it back and forth?

  • BerenstainsMonster@kbin.earth
    4·
    1 month ago

    Oo thanks for sharing the cool music.

    For the strxwberrymilk example, it sounds like just a chopped and screwed dialogue. What I would do to imitate it is chop up a sample of dialogue and import each slice into a sampler on different pads/keys, that way I can “play” the part in that I like. (Alternatively, you can arrange it on the grid too, dragging and dropping slices.) I might follow that with a formant shifter for that kinda chipmunk sound.

    Similar thing for the BoC reference: but it sounds like some of the slices are very short and loop, creating that stuttering, robotic sound, almost oscillating in the audible range. It also sounds like the part is also being panned around the stereo field. I might add flanger to capture the psychedelic feel too.