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Hi.  I'm interested in obtaining the same effect you get when you are
listening to a webcast and it rapidly "stutters", playing snippets one after
the other rapidly.

I do NOT want to do something like a chopping effect where one loses audio,
and I also want this to be very, very rapid, so it's almost fluid but you
can hear the rapid dropouts.  It's also NOT a real stutter as in that no
sounds are actually repeating, they're just taking a while to get out and
being split apart quite rapidly.

I know I could accomplish this through arduous editing but am wondering if
there's effects or such that anyone could recommend.  FYI the tools I have
include PARIS, SoundForge, Logic 4.7, Cubase 3.5, and Cakewalk 7 (or
similar, it's been a long time since I've used it).

>Hi.  I'm interested in obtaining the same effect you get when you are
>listening to a webcast and it rapidly "stutters", playing snippets one after
>the other rapidly.
>
>I do NOT want to do something like a chopping effect where one loses audio,
>and I also want this to be very, very rapid, so it's almost fluid but you
>can hear the rapid dropouts.  It's also NOT a real stutter as in that no
>sounds are actually repeating, they're just taking a while to get out and
>being split apart quite rapidly.
>
>I know I could accomplish this through arduous editing but am wondering if
>there's effects or such that anyone could recommend.  FYI the tools I have
>include PARIS, SoundForge, Logic 4.7, Cubase 3.5, and Cakewalk 7 (or
>similar, it's been a long time since I've used it).
>
In general what you describe  is one of the possible variants known in
the Computer music community as 'granular synthesis' so any toolkit
that does GS should be able to reproduce a variant to suit your needs.
There are probably a lot of possible solutions, but one thing that comes
to mind is the a shareware Product called 'audiomulch' that will run in
demo mode (PC) for a while without restrictions that has 'Granular
 Contraptions' (www.audiomulch.com) This is written by a friend of mine...
The 'Brassage' plugin of the GRM tools collection (marketed by Steinberg)
will probably achieve this too as may some of the granular sample modules
in Reaktor among others...

HTH

S.