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Mechanical Music / Mechanical Sound Design

The term "Mechanical Music" is used when, for example, a music track (usually electronic music) is characterized by elements of "mechanical sound design."

"Mechanical sound design" refers to the use of techniques such as time stretching, re-pitching, and looping (typically with very tight or extremely long loop times) in the sound design process.

IMPORTANT: The warping algorithms offered by Ableton Live are originally the main solution for achieving mechanical sound design in its true essence (beats mode, re-pitch).
Example: I take an electronic music track and stretch it to extreme levels (700-800-999 bpm) until I get interesting textures both audibly and creatively, using Ableton warping modes like beats or re-pitch. Then I can chop most interesting parts to obtain Mechanical Music / Mechanical Sound Design
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sounds spicy

Person A: Let's play some Fortnite tomorrow
Person B: Sounds spicy!
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Sound like a glock

When someone has a very deep voice you say they sound similar to the very loud and deep sound of a glock
Person: *speaking*
Person 2: Oh my gosh you sound like a glock
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sound the troops

Telling your friends to get ready for an epic event.
Sound the troops bc it’s about to go down.
by Dirtythirtys August 18, 2024
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Sounding

When you shove long, elegant, metal sticks up your urethra
Jacko "I can't wait to go home and do some sounding"
Alyssa "Oh yes daddy I would love to join you pleasssssse"
by Luke_Footwick13 May 9, 2022
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loud and potentially surprising sound effect

A sentence used in any conversation that will make your friends stop talking and will do 1 of 2 things:
1. They will genuinely act surprised, like they don't know what the fuck happened
2. They will stop talking and will be weirded by the fact that you randomly just said that
Tyler: yo what's going o-
Jacob: loud and potentially surprising sound effect
Tyler: (surprised af)
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Sound Like A Broken Record

(Adj.) Having something repeatedly being said to you, most of the time about the same thing. This can vary from being said by your teacher to your black grandma.
"Boy now I done now told you to clean yo room! You makin me sound like a broken record."
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