The buffer control below lets you selects which part of the audio youвЂ™re feeding into the stutter. These chops can be quantised to the beat, with length altered via the gate and tail controls. The stutter control takes incoming audio and repeats it in time divisions or at super-fast audio rates, causing pitched sounds. Stutter Edit 2 is essentially built from two sections: the stutter and buffer sections at the top of the GUI, and the multi-effects section below. This means you have two filters on one keyboard control, which automatically snaps to the centre/off position. ThereвЂ™s a global resonant high- and low-pass filter atop the GUI, which is assigned to the pitch wheel by default. Settings such as bar length (from 16th notes to two bars), palindrome looping and how the effect reacts when the key is pressed and released are saved along with each gesture. If you want to build your own bank, you can drag and drop to assign individual gestures to each key on the keyboard. These include vocal transitions, cinematic sound effects, master-bus fills and build-ups, sidechains and trance gates, beat grooves, synth-bass modulations and many more.

There are plenty of presets that show off the range of the plug-in, including many designed by BT himself. Stutter Edit 2 can sense which DAW youвЂ™re using, and will show you a step-by-step guide when you select MIDI play mode. Some require a separate instrument track to host the plug-in, with audio fed in via the sidechain input. The triggering of these gestures differs depending on your DAW. You can perform these modulating effects by simply hitting a key or by using the useful new Auto mode, which automatically plays your selected gesture on loop. Its presets are called gestures, and can be assigned to MIDI keys and saved as banks. SE2 can give you some unique FX sounds that the other's will struggle to replicate, but I don't think these particular sounds are amazing enough to pick SE2 over the others.Setting up Stutter Edit 2 is simple. With SE2 I discover happy accidents, not pre-intended results. I actually find the others give me the results I want much more easily. it's a nice to have, but DEFINIETLY NOT essential. Well - I have lots of multi-FX VSTs including SE2 and I'd say. is SE2 worth upgrading to? And does SE2 stand up against the competition. So - going back to the original question.

which marry LFO's and Envelopes and Followers (etc.) with Amplitude, Filters, Width, Panning, Reverb, Delays, Distortion (etc.) Shaperbox, BYOME, Tantra, Gatekeeper, UVI Shade, The Drop, Zenith, Multipass (etc.). The clubbing era of over the top stutters seems to have gone (although a lot of tracks still have little snippets of stutter - just not from start to finish). whereas version 1 felt like a one trick pony that smacked you in the face for stuttering vocals, synths or drums. Wholeheartedly agree that Stutter Edit 2 is extremely useful for subtlety. I picked it up cheap when it came out (because I can't control the GAS) and I have since uninstalled version 1 I can say its a must download, and its certainly not something that I use on every project. as I find that I tinker away different sections and change my mind. I like how you can chop up a loop/ track easily without being destructive to the original source. I find its best used subtly which I find version 2 is easier to dial in the subtlety than version 1 is. and its not all about totally destroying your loops. I find stutter edit 2 much easier to use, I mean I can get the results that I am looking for quicker.

Stutter edit presets