Any idea how to replicate this mechanical sound effect

[Eva Redwood]

https://soundcloud.com/account-for-comm ... TegA068rYP

(This is an extracted part from a song called "Lambda" by a Japanese musician.)

It's such a cool sound.
I can hear that stutter and tape stop effects were used, but I'm not sure what the sound itself is.

[mjolnir]

to my ears it sounds like a snippet of some kind of melody timestretched with an older timestretch algorithm (like audio scrubbing on an old Fostex or Vestax hard disk recorder of the 1990s) -OR- some kind of melody through snap to grid pitch correction. It could even be both. Even in Cockos REAPER, the item properties in conjunction with alt-dragging can get some similar effects if you adjust the pitch and timestretch algorithms.

[BertKoor]

https://freesound.org/people/G_M_D_THREE/sounds/454649/
Within the portion 6.5-7.0 secs are some interesting lower pitch sounds which resemble this.
Also ring modulation effect comes to mind.

I think it's a matter of being creative with raw sounds.

[CHOOS]

I hear bitcrushing, tapestop, glitch effects so there are vst's for all three.

[pekbro]

Hmm I didn’t listen to it on any good speakers, or for very long, but it sounded like a vocoder to me.