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Zen World Apr 26, 2017

Vocal Chop Like A Pro

Vocal chops are at an all time high in popularity with DJ'S like Martin Garrix, Mesto, DJ
Snake, Diplo, Skrillex, and many more executing them at a very professional quality.

Today I aim to teach YOU how to vocal chop like a pro without sounding like everybody
else.

The way we are tackling this is via a sampling technique that is found in Ableton easily,
but a bit difficult to master.

I promise you though if you invest time into this, you will be vocal chopping to the top of
the charts in no time.

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Right Click On The Vocal Sample and Select Slice to MIDI TRACKS

Here I RECOMMEND People pick 1/8th to 1/4th Notes as this will make the samples long
enough to get the full benefit of this technique.

You will now be greeted by a MIDI TRACK like this.

Delete all the midis so you are left with a blank midi page.

Step 4 Develop YOUR Vocal Chop Loop

This step is the most difficult as it will require you to really work at getting an awesome
vocal loop.

Now if you've noticed we are not doing the generic route of using a vocal chop to make a
melody as anyone can do that. We are using a Kanye west style sampling route to allow us to
get unique vocal chops like Martin Garrix and Mesto.

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This is how mines look after toughing it out to make an awesome vocal loop
picture

KEY INFORMATION
*MIDI Length matters here as the longer the midi the longer the sample will play.
* make sure not to worry much about the timing of the sample as we will fix this in the
next step
*if you get stumped on the vocal chops chill and come back to it later.

STEP 5 Finalize Your Vocal Chop Loop

Vocal chops won't always sound perfect some one of the cool things we can do is alter
the starting point of the vocal chop by going into the drum rack and double clicking on
the slice we want to edit.

By double clicking this will pop up.

Here you can switch the starting point and end point with the arrows located in the
simpler.

You can also go into the control section and transpose each sample if you choose to.

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Vocal Chop Like A Pro

Step 1 Pick Your Vocal

Having a huge acapella collection is

awesome for this, as vocals will be the
ingredients to creating amazing vocal
chops.

I'm also not talking about those generic

vocal shots you can find in vocal sample
packs.

For this method to work we need full

vocals that present a phrase, and end
the phrase.

For this tutorial I will be using this vocal.

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Step 1.0 Initial VOCAL

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IMPORTANT: make sure to know the scale of your vocal as it will only work with tracks
written in that scale so for instance if the vocal is in A# Minor your track has to be in
A# Minor.

IMPORTANT #2: make sure the vocal phrase is short and to the point as long phrases
will not work in this technique and will only stump you further.

IF YOU NEED VOCAL PHRASES make sure TO CHECK OUT THE FREE ULTIMATE LIST OF
EDM VOCAL SAMPLES

STEP 2 Transpose Vocal Up 1 Octave

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In this method we will be using Abletons Transpose feature here to get the vocal
sounding cartoonish like this.

GOOD PLACES TO TRANSPOSE TOO Remember the new KEY AND SCALE
12 st = 1 Octave
7 st = The 5th Harmonic Note of your vocal
3 st = The 3rd Harmonic Note Of Your Vocal

Make sure to be using complex pro for a smooth effect.

Pull back on the formant for a cartoonish effect.

My vocal sounds like this now and I will hit COMMAND+J To consolidate it aka Bounce it
out.

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Step 2.0 Cartoon VOCAL

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IMPORTANT: make sure TO CONSOLIDATE THE VOCAL AS not doing so will make the next
step worthless.

STEP 3 Slice Vocal Track To MIDI Slices

This is where this technique shines as we are now going to slice our vocal track into
various small slices that ableton will input into a drum rack for us.

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After all that my vocal sample loop sounds like this

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STEP 3 Vocal CHOP

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CONCLUSION

Making Vocal Chops is a task that requires skill and patient to execute in order to sound
like Martin Garret, Marshmello, Skrillex, Jack U, and anyone else you can think that uses
them.

This method we learned today gives us a unique approach to vocal chops that allows us
to create really unique vocal chops the only problem is that it does require some time.

-Zen World

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