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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/

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Auto tuning a chopped up recording? Other replies are definitely better but it might be worth exploring or combining

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Good idea. I'll play around with that too.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

This video describes how to recreate the animal crossing sound piece by piece. So, if I were you, I'd try to recreate this process with whatever tools you're comfortable with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYnI_ZLj5ys

Overall, I hear chopping, looping, and various playback speeds.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days 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.

this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2025
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