this might be the hardest to set up but it gives you the most options. add a gate to the sound you want stuttered and activate the sidechain mode. feed it a muted track of a very short sound hitting the pattern you want. I used an arpeggiator to get a consistent 16th note rhythm set to an operator with almost no decay. then I used the release of the gate to control how extreme I wanted the effect.

what I love about this is method is you can make the gate only a tiny fraction of your sound at each division. I love how staccato this can become; staccatissimo, if you will. another nice feature is you can very easily vary the release to make your stutter less machinist -- an evolving gate sounds much more organic and can open compositional possibilities. the best part of all is it is all fully automatable and and you can feed in any rhythm you want - even a dynamic one that isn't simply hitting every 16th or 8th note.

those are three ways you can stutter sounds in ableton live! I encourage you to experiment with these methods as the results can be inspiring.

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