By chopping and sequencing vocal samples to create new riffs, you can add a lot of sonic interest to any beat, whether you’re producing instrumental hip hop or a backing track for a vocalist to topline over. I wrote a whole article on how to create vocal chops but, for this piece, we’re going to look at how easy it is to make a new vocal chop phrase using Glaze 2.
One of my favorite features of Glaze 2 is that it includes several “Riff & Run” presets which make those chopped ’n’ screwed vocal phrases super simple to make. For this demo, I loaded up a preset called “Boy Please” and then used my Komplete Kontrol S49 to trigger the various hip hop vocal samples included in the preset. This is what I came up with, overtop the original beat: