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iZotope Stutter Edit Help Documentation
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3. PLAYING YOUR EFFECTS
How Gestures Work
“Look at all of those controls! It’s a lot to think about,” you might be saying to yourself.
Well, to start, let’s stop thinking about it, and start thinking about Gestures.
A Gesture is a set of effects that all live on a single MIDI note. Gestures are the key (yeah
that’s a pun) to making Stutter Edit such a musical and playable effect. A single press of a
key or drum pad can do something simple, like replaying a chunk of audio at a certain
rhythmic value, like an 1/8 note. Or it can trigger a run of incredibly complex stutters that
get decimated by a bit crusher before being filtered and then released into a wash of
echoes. Did we lose you yet?
Well, here’s the important thing: Gestures condense all of these complex effects, and their
timelines, onto a single key. Which makes it simple to play Stutter Edit, whether you’re on
stage or in the studio. The best way to find good sounds is simply to experiment by loading
one of the included Bank presets and then playing or triggering different gestures. This will
help you get your head around exactly what Stutter Edit does.
Loading a Bank
Gestures are combined into Banks, which are essentially Stutter Edit presets. When you
load a single bank, it contains tons of Gestures already mapped to MIDI notes for you. You
can also customize banks to your liking using the Preset Manager (more on this later).
To choose one of the “factory” banks for Stutter Edit, just go to the Bank drop down list at
the top of the interface.
TIP: When you’re ready to go a little deeper, you can also use the Preset
Manager to reorganize gestures any way you like. You can collect all of the
gestures you want to use for a gig in a new bank, or put certain gestures on
certain keys as you refine your playing technique.
Playing Gestures to Add Effects