User Manual

Playing Your Effects
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When you put Stutter Edit on a track, or on your main mix, you can fire off Gestures by
hitting notes on your favorite MIDI controller. If you prefer, you can also paint notes into
your host’s MIDI sequencer (such as a piano roll view, or step sequencer) to make gestures
happen at particular moments.
Note: When using Stutter Edit on musical material, it’s best to have your host
program set to the correct tempo for the music you’re playing back.
Stutter Edit “listens” to the host for its tempo. When Stutter Edit is locked to
tempo, it’s almost impossible to do things that sound “wrong.”
With a little experimentation, you’ll find that Gestures can:
• Add variation to repetitive loops or sections of a song
• Add musical filter sweeps over set a number of beats or measures
• Create delay effects that repeat over your track when you release a gesture
• Add build-ups and transitions with filtered noise sweeps
• Grunge-up your audio subtly or drastically with lo-fi effects
• And lots more!
As you play some Gestures with your song or track playing back, you’ll start to get a feel for
what all of the effects do. The best way to learn Stutter Edit is by experimenting with the
Banks that come with it.
TIP
: Try to get out of the mentality of “I’m going to put this effect on the whole
track.” Stutter Edit changes as you play different notes, which gives you a whole
new way to think about adding effects. Forget you have a mouse for a couple of
minutes. Let your ears guide you!
Stutter Gestures and Generator Gestures
When you play a key to activate a gesture, you’ll notice a light that tells you what type of
Gesture it is.
There are two types of Gestures:
• Stutter Gestures – these process audio with the Stutter effect as well as other
creative processors like Filters, Delay and Lo-Fi effects
• Generator Gestures – these gestures generate noise and other sounds on top of the
audio playing through Stutter Edit. They let you create rising build-ups and other
dynamic transitions.