Sample Mangling Recommendations?

[bharris22]

Hi Everyone,

I am thinking about getting into some field recording stuff. What would be some of your recommendations for mangling those samples? I'm thinking of VSTs like EchoMelt, Iris, RC-20, but I'm sure there are many others I am forgetting or don't know about.

Thanks!

[kidslow]

These would be top of my list:
Glitchmachines - Polygon 2.0 & Palindrome
Devious Machines Texture

Do you have access to Kontakt? Some good ones there like ReKombinator I & II.

[PTV]

Unfiltered Audio, Inear Display, Audio Damage (all their legacy plugins are now free), Renoise Redux, +1 for Glitchmachines

[tibah]

The audio editing functions of your DAW.
Byome.
HalfTime.
ÜberMod.
ValhallaDelay has some nice "out there" modes too.

[Ah_Dziz]

Anything from grm tools. Melda MXXX. Plogue Bidule. Sound hack stuff. Permut8.

[bharris22]

Excellent - thanks, everyone!

[Winstontaneous]

OP - what DAW(s) do you use and what are its sample tweaking capabilities?

My main DAW is Ableton Live, which has myriad options for sample manipulation just within an audio clip (multiple Warp timestretch modes, reverse, speed, and per-clip automation of many of those parameters), plus further tweaking/slicing within Simpler if desired. Resampling the realtime output to another audio track lets you capture the result, lather, rinse, and repeat. I get a lot of mileage from this workflow alone before FX are applied.

[bharris22]

OP - what DAW(s) do you use and what are its sample tweaking capabilities?

My main DAW is Ableton Live, which has myriad options for sample manipulation just within an audio clip (multiple Warp timestretch modes, reverse, speed, and per-clip automation of many of those parameters), plus further tweaking/slicing within Simpler if desired. Resampling the realtime output to another audio track lets you capture the result, lather, rinse, and repeat. I get a lot of mileage from this workflow alone before FX are applied.

Thanks for the ideas. I will primarily be using these samples in Reaper.

[kvotchin]

TAL Sampler is usually my first stop for sample stuff, and often my last.

But it really depends what you have in mind exactly. Samples are just audio files, after all, so pretty much anything can be done to them / with them.

[Winstontaneous]

OP - what DAW(s) do you use and what are its sample tweaking capabilities?

My main DAW is Ableton Live, which has myriad options for sample manipulation just within an audio clip (multiple Warp timestretch modes, reverse, speed, and per-clip automation of many of those parameters), plus further tweaking/slicing within Simpler if desired. Resampling the realtime output to another audio track lets you capture the result, lather, rinse, and repeat. I get a lot of mileage from this workflow alone before FX are applied.

Thanks for the ideas. I will primarily be using these samples in Reaper.

It's been a while since I used Reaper regularly, but you can do many of the same things with Media Item Properties (like reverse and pitch change) and Item FX. And it's really easy to resample in Reaper by setting one track (or more) to receive from all channels, or post-Master.

[Biome_Digital]

Anything granular is good. Permut8 is an often overlooked mangler.

[MogwaiBoy]

iZotope Iris 2