Editing Vocals

[connorshirs]

Guys I need help on making vocals that have like the weird pitch to them in edm music. Kinda sounds like it could be made with a vocoder yet I am not sure. An example would be the drop in "How Deep is Your Love," "I Took A Pill in Ibiza," and "Lean On." Can someone just tell me what this technique is called?

 

[Squealy]

It sound like pitch shifting, that is just a basic answer though they probably used various other effects on the vocals but personally I think they just chopped the vocals and played around with the pitch.

Try and chop your vocal sample and map it on a keyboard and see if you can play around with different notes and pitches, or you can map each sample chop to a key on your keyboard/piano roll and then pitch shift each chop indiviually and then try and play a melody with them. Best way to learn is trial and error so mess around and see what technique works for you best.

 

[rayzer]

certain words are probably chopped to individual samples then played like a melody with some portamento