you should check out the archive there was a little conversation about it a while back, much talk of delay lines and stuff, vd, tabread, xgroove et cetera, it's certainly dooable...the stutter effect (aswell as granular synthesis and the fft) was one of the reasons i got into the max family of programs although i find that it is rarely used with any imagination by most musicians, ultimately most people use these techniques as effects, whereas i prefer the view that each "effect" should provide a core ideology to the music rather than be used as a cherry on the cake or something...well i dunno that's just what i think...
p.s. my favourite use of a stutter type effect is on the autechre track gantz graf, has anyone got any better examples?
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