by itroitnyah » 23 May 2014 22:27
The way to get just plain speaking into your song is to mix it in well. Light reverb to keep it from standing out (unless you want it to be the main attraction to your song), some compression if you need to limit the dynamic range, some sidechaining on whatever you find is conflicting with the lyrics in the mix, and compose around the vocals. You can open the speech up in a program like Newtone to get a good idea of the pitch, maybe change up the pitch a bit to get them more on notes you can compose around, whatever. There's a lot of things you can do to get the speech to fit into the song, it's just a bit complex because it takes a slightly different skill set to work with than what you normally experience with an acoustic song.
For glitching and splicing vocals, you can use Edison (or something similar) to pick out the vowel sounds or any other slight snippets that sound good glitchy, and then use Newtone to slam them to either the nearest note in the scale and just use something like slicex to just load up all the spliced samples so that you can compose them all in one piano roll, or if you want more freedom to compose with the splices, snap them hard onto a middle C note, then open up them up in samplers and mess with the envelope and timings and stuff so that you get the splice you want and you're all set.
Forgive me if anything is confusing, it's late and I'm tired. If you need more in depth I can help you when I get back on or if somebody else gets here before I do.