Help with a very specific audio effect idea
Hello!
I’ve got kind of a weird experimental audio idea and I’m trying to figure out what tools/plugins I should look into.
I’m pretty new to more advanced audio stuff. I mainly use Reaper and basic VST effects, nothing too deep into scripting or modular setups.
What I want to do is basically take one or more speech recordings and turn them into something that gets chopped into small fragments (words / syllables / sometimes longer bits), and then have those fragments randomly shuffled and played back continuously.
So instead of a normal glitch/stutter effect or granular “smear,” I’m looking for something more like:
- automatic slicing of speech into chunks
- random or rule-based reordering of those chunks
- playback that constantly rebuilds speech in a new order
- sometimes you almost catch full sentences, but it never fully locks into anything coherent
I tried granular plugins already, but what I got was more of a washed-out reverb/cloud texture rather than actual “cut and rearrange speech pieces.”
So I’m guessing what I need is more like a:
stutter / slicer / buffer shuffler / transient-based random playback thing?
Does anyone know good plugins or workflows in Reaper (or other DAWs) that can do this kind of thing without having to manually cut everything?
Thanks!