How To Make Stutter House For Free

[@A____P]

thank you for the trance gate tutorial 🙏

[@Bthelick]

Shhhhhhh that's not what the kids call it any more you'll make us look old!!! 🤣🤫

[@A____P]

I wasn't even alive in the 90s haha, I just thought it was funny that the effect has a new name now. Thank you for the video guides though, they are helpful for amateurs like me.

[@johndoe_1984]

We’ve come full circle

[@Rave-agent]

Protect this man at all costs. Thank you.

[@UseYourEarsBro]

I think Bicep Glue was a big reason for the use of this effect over the last few years

[@Bthelick]

Definitely!

[@rikkshow]

Soundtoys Tremolo has swing, but also push/drag, and your can define the curve. It is my go to for this. Easiest to tune in the tremolo groove.

[@Bthelick]

Yeah all the sounds toys stuff is great. Not free though and like I said everything surrounding this seems to be a hidden advert so I didn't wanna go that route haha

[@Ravix0fFourHorn]

Great video as always. Another thing i havent seen much being talked about when it come to house music production is drum fills or fills in general, i had to reference a lot in order to get it down well and im still learning obviously. Id like to see a video dedicated to fills if possible "when, why, how" that kind of stuff. I was shocked how such a small thing can bring the production together so well and take you one step further on sounding like the "pros".

[@Bthelick]

It's a great question, and not the first time it's been asked. I'm still working on how to teach it. being a rock guy originally (and I can play drums a lil too) I have a bunch of go-to fills and they all have silly names like "put-it-in-a-hat---box---" or "flats---in---Dagenham" 🤣🤣 but I kinda just use them instinctively and haven't yet worked out a formula or reliable way to convey it. We'll get there 👊

[@hendrix6]

@@Bthelick BA DUM TISH🙃

[@BrosifMcJoseph]

Stutter house is not my genre but the fact you made this video to help out beginners that think they might need a certain plugin is commendable. Love this channel

[@steviejazzygee]

Was doing this back in the day with an analog drawmer gate and a feeding it with a midi trigger, that’s how us old trance producers created this effect in the first place

[@Bthelick]

Ah yeah the good ol drawmer gates, the only gate in town back then. Did they have a patent or something? No one came close to them for a good decade!

[@ChefkochAntoine]

Everytime I watch you I always feel like I am stealing. Man your videos are top notch. Thank you so much. I am gonna get you that coffee now.

[@Bthelick]

Haha all good, I'm just trying to help. But I'll take the compliment thank you 🙏

[@CARPAudio]

That alex hilton plug is magnificent! A little on the ugly side, but it’s free and works fantastic.

[@Emiran_music]

i've been using kilohearts trance gate. have been searching for lfo style alternativea (shaper box etc.) but now switched directly to a1 right now! thank you for the advice! Amazing video and remakes by the way.

[@amg5656]

If you're in Bitwig, you can build this same functionality very easily by putting an Arpeggiator and a Tool after your sound source. Put a Bitwig envelope modulator on the Volume knob in Tool. Use the Arpeggiator to control which steps trigger the stutter. Likewise add filters before Tool with their own envelopes as needed. The Bitwig Arpeggiator is set by factory default to obey Bitwig's global swing. You can toggle that feature off if needed. All these devices can be wrapped in a container, with control macros, save it for later use, and you're off to the races.

[@unic0de-yvr]

And in Ableton, you can do it with the builtin "Auto Pan" effect! I think most DAWs out there nowadays, already natively include the necessary tools to do a volume LFO effect. Just the same, I appreciate that Bthelick focused on freely available VST plugins, which mean the tutorial is more universally applicable independent of the DAW you're using.

[@AutPen38]

There are about five ways to do most of these tricks with 20-year-old stock effects in FL Studio too, but additional plugins can speed up the process and tend to be more visually appealing too.

[@mattcritchlow1769]

Hi TAL Filter 2 does this as a tremolo but HP, LP, and Pan as well with nice stereo modulation too. Oh and it’s free 😊

[@fallenleaf24]

Alex Hilton trigger gate is a beast! the only other gate that can beat it is Polyverse GateKeeper! In my personal opinion.

[@sterdot]

I've always just used the built-in Auto Pan for simple tremolo effects. Just turn the phase so the channels line up and it becomes an Auto Tremolo instead. The rate can be cranked up pretty high too.

[@machinate]

was gonna say, the Chainsmokers example would've been a lot simpler :)

[@Bthelick]

Yeah, but no swing option or gate length. Also I'm keeping it daw independent as far as possible.

[@tomaytto9407]

I went to see ATRIP at Fabric a few weeks ago and he's all over this sound. Really good set! Thanks for all the tips!

[@luckymyfriend7u7u72]

17:44 - 19:20 Very interesting , for compression to , and for more effects , the power of Swing I test the swing on ableton and this is fire

[@meowpow7522]

The oldest stutter track I could name is "The Age of Love" back in 92. Thanks a lot 4 your job, great channel!

[@Bthelick]

Yeah I was trying to rack my brains thinking what it could be. That's certainly a contender for sure! well remembered 👊

[@AutPen38]

Quite a few producers used to call it the 'Age of Love effect' until "trancegate" became the shorthand. It's interesting that it's come back in vogue, but even more interesting is the evolution of these gated/tremelo effects into complex patterns that change their speed/timing. I hadn't even thought about the issues with swing before, so this video was quite enlightening.

[@thameddler]

The Heavenly mix of Total Confusion by a Homeboy a Hippie and a Funky Dread has something like it, from 1990

[@thameddler]

Actually the original Age of Love was from 1990 also, come to think of it.

[@meowpow7522]

​@@thameddler yea, you're right, I made a slight mistake here

[@thrownstair]

I love Kilohearts Trance Gate so much I challenge myself not to use it.

[@PALE1080]

one of the best tutorials i've watched in a while, even as a professional producer it helps so much understanding basics

[@Ishkur23]

Back in the 90s we just called this effect Gates. Used a lot in Progressive House and German Trance.

[@yeezythabest]

Becoming my Dan Worrall of music production

[@revlow]

Great video! Was aware of all these methods but your delivery helps really connect with the potential use!!

[@synthsoniq]

Awesome video! Every video of yours is so informative. That A1TriggerGate plug-in by Alex Hilton is incredible. I don't often use my DAW as I generally prefer a DAW-less workflow, but that plug-in alone is worth hopping into the DAW. Thanks for sharing that plug-in, and for another great video filled with so much useful info!

[@SagesOfSound]

Excellent tutorial as usual, absolute golden nuggets of info regarding to everything "Stutter House" related. I dunno why, but no matter what, as soon as I hear it, the good ould gating effect , always grabs my attention. BTW your an amazing Tutor/Teacher/Guru of all things dance music related. Thank you for sharing your masterful knowledge . Peace!

[@pixisk]

I use stutter as a support not main. Its fun to make one!

[@Omega9724]

Inspired?? Understatement.... I'm off to the DAW...... Sorry wife....blame Bthelick 😂

[@DANSTEPHENSON191]

Bthelick never misses.

[@A2K77official]

Thats exactly a Trance Gate,you man of culture.

[@paulbarrett4533]

Anyone with logic, step fx is a stock plug in that works quiet well for this sort of effect

[@the_JTowny]

There's nothing new under the sun. 😎

[@the_JTowny]

But saying that, that plugin is pretty decent.

[@cymbolic_space1832]

funny, i was just doing this on hardware yesterday. using a modulation line on my sequencer to change the rate of a square wave linked to the vca on my synth.

[@Bthelick]

Yup that'll do it!

[@ramsaysg]

Excellent tutorial on the different techniques

[@crazyfluke]

Thanks for the tutorial B! Learned a lot of new plugins I've not used before. Triggergate looks amazing, been using Kilohertz Trance Gate for this but no swing feature so thanks again man 😀 👍

[@r3asonmusics766]

hey love your videos so much. can you try underground progressive house?. like guy j, tali muss, dj ruby etc

[@NATEFTBL]

Absolutely fantastic video man

[@wired99999999]

I like your take on Quiver better than original

[@VentureNW]

Very cool stuff! I still need to wrap my brain around Grooves and Swing more, in Live. There are so many of them in the Groove folder

[@dizphunkt]

nice TranceGate! Also I love the Arpeggiator trick, it's awesome!

[@AaronBowley]

3 minutes in and i’ve ripped all my hair out that you didn’t just get right into the tremolo audio effect that comes with ableton

[@Beatsbasteln]

great. you just reminded me of bitwig's lack of complete swing control

[@don_huzan]

Lots of golden information here, incredible

[@ruleset]

Is that stutter house? -No, my cpu is bad

[@kurtjanssen3887]

😂👍

[@ryanbent9368]

Great explanations on this one! Btw the Silk one used a splice sample

[@Bthelick]

Don't we all!

[@Sprong4]

Very informative video. i've been trying to figure out stutter for a long time and this helped alot.

[@yarrrno]

Your tutorials always drop on time, like godsent. I just noticed gatelab doesn't recall all the settings when i reopen my project so i redownloaded, reinstalled, it didn't fix it, went meh and thought i will figure it out later and just check for some entertainment from youtube instead and 💥. Thanks for the awesome otto knows pun as well 😂

[@Bthelick]

Yeah gate lab also doesn't respond to automation changes, it's straight up broken basically. Also that UI is a mess haha

[@yarrrno]

@@Bthelick Totally agree about the UI as well :D

[@tombanner3720]

Another amazing video! Thank you! The breaks sample pack you mentioned is this one "Vintage Breaks Vol1" on Loopmasters?

[@Bthelick]

Which part please can you tell me the time stamp? I have all 6 volumes of the vintage breaks

[@TristanKopp-m1e]

Great video! But i cant download the A1 Trigger Gate, it says the software of the plugin has to be updated...I am on Mac 😅

[@Anselwithmac]

You covered Ascend!! Rad

[@kurtjanssen3887]

Enjoy your Coffee😉👊

[@kleeenco]

This is actually really easy in Bitwig, (not trying to start a DAW war, they are all great) but the modulators can basically pipe an LFO/wavetable/etc into anything, can be matched to tempo/swing and midi/note driven, it's wonderful.

[@UseYourEarsBro]

Yeah you can route an LFO onto any parameter in Ableton with the LFO modulator audio effects section

[@boronoro]

Unison audio joke is very funny!

[@tylerfetherston3208]

Lol as the video went on I kept writing down the freebie plugins and then crossing them out as you used better and better ones.

[@G11Marksman]

This sounds a lot like what I've seen from Moonboy. Super great sound!

[@tristanlenczner]

Please can you link a file to the preset bass sounds you made on vital. All sounded epic.

[@Bthelick]

description updated 👊

[@e5erik1]

Always super helpful videos

[@messibeaucoup]

Such a great tutorial, thanks! I was able to follow your explanations until the last example with the bassline, which I’m probably just to dumb to grasp…..😮 I rewatched that part 3 times and just don’t get it.

[@Bthelick]

Sorry about that, do you mean the "envelope triggers " section?

[@messibeaucoup]

@@Bthelick yes exactly, I just always struggle to grasp these kind of things, I mean everything regarding connections and interactions with envelopes and lfo’s, be it in one synth or between different modules like in your example. My brain just doesn’t seem to work at that level, which is actually quite sad because I would really like to have some sound design capabilities instead of being dependent on other people’s presets….

[@Bthelick]

Yeah It can be a bit alien in the digital world because we aren't connecting real wires to places so the signal flow is harder to grasp. Regarding envelopes/ lfos I suggest having a quick watch of my "sound design pt1" I go over those concepts a little better in that video.

[@messibeaucoup]

@@Bthelick Thank you, I just added it to my ‘watch later’ 👌🏻

[@LabofmusicRecords]

ha ha, nice.. I have a track produced back in 2010 and it's the same style, so I'm a timetraveler now?

[@keiichitw]

i think trance producers traveled in time

[@conduit-seoir]

@bthelick What's the sample pack you used for all the vocal samples?

[@Bthelick]

I just grabbed random stuff from what I already had from splice. You could do this with literally anythng as long as there's a long note to sample. Pretty sure they were from a deep house vocal pack

[@TristanKopp-m1e]

Great video! But i can not download the A1 Trigger Gate... It says, the Software of the plugin has to be updated. I am on Mac by the way 😅

[@Bthelick]

Ooh no. Are you on a new Mac with the m1 chip? Maybe they aren't compatible?

[@tylerfetherston3208]

When making a swung drum pattern, I normally only swing the hi hats. What elements in your drums do you recommend swinging to officially classify it as a "swung groove" which therefore should match up with other swung instruments (not a straight stutter for example)?

[@Bthelick]

It's nuanced answer, but in general , my advice to newcomers is keep it locked together, swing should be matched everywhere. It's totally possible to mix and match for deliberate 'awkwardness' but you have to have a feel for dance and be able to dance before that becomes intuitive.

[@tylerfetherston3208]

@@Bthelick great thank you

[@winstonhulley626]

I would love a tutorial on how to make the sounds in this video!

[@gooneybird808]

So Trance music is back

[@Bthelick]

Yeah basically! 🤣

[@RewiredRecords]

Thanks a lot for including our SideKick2 ❤

[@Bthelick]

You're very welcome! Thanks for making it 👊 V3 will have swing control and drag-able presets I trust???

[@RewiredRecords]

@@Bthelick thanks for the ideas, I’ll add them to the list. We also have multi-band ready for V3 so you can affect only a certain frequency range. What do you mean by draggable presets?

[@Bthelick]

Ah that sounds handy. I went over multi bands side chain in my bass processing vid. I meant it would be nice if the curves above were drag-able down into the preset windows

[@RewiredRecords]

@@Bthelick ah so you mean to save your presets into the preset buttons at the bottom?

[@Bthelick]

Yes, is it possible?

[@atibakojo3478]

Have the Hilton, presents are nice👌🏿👍🏿👍🏿

[@Hypo11111]

You’re a beast! Thanks for sharing your insights and unpacking this technique 🎉

[@keystonedfelixify]

hey it was a good sunday session. keep up the good works!

[@ItsWesSmithYo]

Stutter Edit is the OG plugin…and still not much does it better, as broadly or precisely and purely MIDI nonetheless…BT really was the OG of bringing this to EDM before EDM was a term. Cool vid for the free ride and all the in between…thanks B the boss;)

[@Bthelick]

Yeah the first ableton demo I saw in 2004 was a dj set with stutter edit! That's why they made beat repeat (a pale imitation haha)

[@ItsWesSmithYo]

@@Bthelick hahah, that’s awesome, didn’t know. It is a bit pricey. Keep it poppin’ B

[@Bthelick]

Oh actually you know I'm getting confused it was a free plugin with a similar name. It had no gui but could do stutters, reverse and tape stop.

[@ruleset]

Trance gate? kind of guessed it :D

[@EFIDIUMmusic]

great vid! wasnt there a swing in the ableton appegiator?

[@Bthelick]

Not that follows the global swing or groove track. It just goes full triplet or nothing 😞

[@shifu6076]

Hey there, where did u get that vocal sample for biceps glue? Would love to know. Been using this plugin on a regular basis since this video, much love❤❤

[@Bthelick]

I just grabbed a random female vocal that had a long held note from splice. Stretched it, looped it and then pitched it up and down. You can do it with any vocal if you have a long clean note to manipulate

[@fjoiewafno]

If i wanted to do this on a hardware synth could i just modulate volume? Alternatively could this effect be achieved with a tremolo pedal?

[@Bthelick]

Yeah. if the lfos can get close to a square, volume or filter would work. Pedal also depends on lfos shape/options.

[@TaZerrHD]

Great tutorial man!

[@imsteveoneill]

Amazing tutorial love the gated effect on the vocal tried to recreate it with the white noise trigger. Quick question whats the envelope midi mapped too must of missed in in the video cant find it ... thankyou keep up the vids great work and simple to understand

[@Bthelick]

Thanks. The envelope Is the last example at 17:39 👊

[@fenexj]

Love this chan, so much amazing knowledge for free. Thank you so much mate.

[@JamisonYergler]

Are you the guy who does fabfilter walk throughs? similar voice!

[@Bthelick]

No that's Dan Worall. Legend. He's certainly one of my main influences so I'll take the compliment thankyou!

[@rab-nathanielsansebastian3660]

absolute legend YEAHHHHHH

[@nitroanilinmusic]

if you need flexibility, Cardinal is phenomenal for this

[@Bthelick]

Yes I've finally got round to playing with cardinal this year, fantastic project.

[@IshiMusic]

Thank you!

[@sleepyxboy]

By the way, the chop are great!

[@BiTsJaY]

thanks for this tutorial, where is that biceps glue vocal sample from?

[@Bthelick]

I just grabbed a random one from my library, found the longest note and stretched it, formanted it, and pitch bent it. I think it's the same vocal on all the examples

[@ChrisWolfe31]

Wasn't trance/techno using this effect like 25/30 years ago in the late 90s? A great example is "Anomaly - Calling Your Name"

[@Bthelick]

Yes. Usually achieved with the classic drawmer gates.

[@ChrisWolfe31]

@@Bthelick I was just making sure I wasn't crazy. I started using these effects in my beats about 10 years ago but, I stopped because I figured that style had run its course; now it's back lol. It's funny how cyclical trends/styles are when a talented and influential person decides to bring it back. Fred Again is a prime example of an "Outlier" as coined by Malcolm Gladwell.

[@carloseduardomarquescasale9693]

A M A Z I N G

[@SideBrain]

Amazing video!

[@KrisHaagensen]

Mad coincidence, i was going to request how Sllash and Dope did their latest track Kyrenia. And its exactly what you deliver here just 2 days after the release! At least i think its the same effect?

[@Bthelick]

Yes it's the same effect. 👊. I mean, There's no telling what specific method / plugin but it's just tremolo / gate effect yes.

[@ladas3509]

I love you man...

[@juandiegoguerra1679]

Can you do a start to finish of stutter house

[@Bthelick]

I can! I also did 2 follow up videos on all the 'ingredients' did you catch those?

[@Ninjjadog]

Great plugin, used it for a while. Nice video cheers ❤

[@BeritzLofi]

Thank you !!

[@LATunesProductions]

Awesome video once again! I’m learning so much stuff🙏 Thanks, and keep up the great work!🙌

[@Bittamin]

It’s definitely an interesting vibe for sure. ❤🎉

[@oliverhansen1460]

Thank you for this wonderful tutorial! I'm wondering if the Expression Control Device, which is only available in the Ableton Suite version (I don't have), could be useful for creating some of the effects.

[@Bthelick]

The MPE or just the regular midi expression?

[@oliverhansen1460]

@@Bthelick I guess one can't put links in comments! There is a short called "Ableton Expression Control - for creative Sound Design" by Vince Xmetric. He creates the same effect using the Expression Control device.

[@Bthelick]

@@oliverhansen1460 Yes its the standard midi expression device. You have access to all the standard midi parameters inside any midi clip if you want in the mean time

[@DiscoLotus]

🔥🔥 fire intro chief

[@joohad]

U are always great!!! Also great at tutoring❤

[@marlondeagle]

Can you share the track that plays in the outro? Its my favourite stutter house track haha

[@Bthelick]

Haha thanks. I better finish it then, that's just the loop I put together for the video. Pop by the live stream on 28th (6pm gmt) I've been asked to make a stutter house track start to finish so I may as well finish this one eh?

[@marlondeagle]

yes that would be great!@@Bthelick

[@SweetDeltoids]

Great content as always. Easily my favorite music production channel. About to explore this and get crazy in Ableton.

[@Calvin-Kleinveld]

I love you so much!😊

[@aqrs269]

Thanks for 💪glue

[@bontempo1271]

Don't suppose you've worked out how the French artists like SebastiAn and Mr.Oizo do their sample chopping technique ? lol. It's something i've always wanted to work out and dabble with but never get time to. I've seen excellent reproductions done but they simply cut and paste the audio. But if you listen to alot of their work in detail, you can hear there is a gating technique being used where samples of their choice will gate everything or some things when triggered. As for the fact that their wild sample chops still present something melodic in nature - i think thats simply a case of using pre made midi melodies then tuning samples to that melody. I was starting to suspect it was a tracker being used, or even a specific software that was made on an old software platform (name not coming to my mind right now). Whatever it is, their whole camp at Ed Banger records have been given the technique, and even Justice use it. It's not quite the same technique as say Aphex Twin or Todd Edwards, although they were the inspiration.

[@Bthelick]

Oooo I do love a good bit of oizo weirdness occasionally. W.C is one of my fave tracks by anyone I think it's just sample pad re triggering isn't it? Mpc style

[@bontempo1271]

@@Bthelick I did experiment with Mute Groups emulating the MPC style, altough some of the tracks could be done that way, it won't do the more complicated style. Ah well, best i continue to ignore it else i spend more time driving myself crazy 😂

[@Bthelick]

@@bontempo1271 I'll have a proper listen and see what i can figure out. I do have a 'French' video in the works. 👊👊

[@bontempo1271]

​@@Bthelick I dread to give anyone more work on my behalf, i will look forward to your planned French video regardless. But if you do ever delve into it, i bookmarked this track as a more obvious example and it's slower : kzbin.info/www/bejne/boHXinWsqrqMmcU It's actually difficult to hear everything going on, because it's so fast and busy. You can hear that there are lots of layers of samples cutting each other out, and the lengths that each snippet is played changes. Sometimes a sample loop is chopped into snippets and reorganised, sometimes the loop is played normally but brought in and out according to their chosen gating structure. So it's as if a premade midi melody or rhythm is used and drives the playing of the samples. One thing that is constant amongst all those French artists using this technique, is that the kick and snare are the important anchors which the majority of the time will silence all other sounds playing. Slowing their tracks right down is much more revealing, but the technique still eludes me lol. The overall sonics is more straight forward as they distort and compress it to death. Alot of the 'breathing' as the samples chop and change is due to heavy mixbus compression. But anyway, this is something i already decided i am happy to surrender on ever achieving 😂 Thanks for the response B !

[@mjlblake]

You are a god! 😊

[@0Human1]

Damn the A1 Gate Trigger doesn't work on new M1 Macs.... :(

[@Bthelick]

Aw damn that's a shame thanks for letting us know.