In electronic music there are many genres which employ chopped-up, interestingly transposed and processed vocals as part of the instrumentation. These vocal chops can create great, interesting elements in a track without you having to source and record a vocalist. This technique allows music makers to use samples which can be made unique and original. Of course, recording and working with your own vocals will give even more originality to this process. In this article we will explore how we can use Live’s Simpler device to slice vocals and to trigger slices with MIDI in both the Session and Arrangement View, instead of having to manually move many small audio clips on the timeline. Furthermore, in order to be able to get creative with processing and transposing each slice independently, we will take a look at how to convert the slices into a Drum Rack.