Upon listening to falaise by floating points and it’s slightly jittery strings, I was completely enthralled by this repeated cutting out, something about it was so unique and present, the whole song is very powerful and really stirs up the emotions of the listener. At first I had thought it was some kind of tremolo but upon listening further and making my own attempts with some tremolo:
I found that there wasn’t as much of this jittery effect, the cuts were too smooth and felt more like it was spinning. I asked my partner who does music and she thought it sounded a lot like sidechain compression. After doing some further research we had found it. From there I did a few tutorials and figured out a way to actually do this, by layering a sound that has a repeating sound (something with heavy tremolo on or a quickly repeating sample) putting it on mute and sending the side chain of the sound I wanted to jitter you would be able to recreate this effect pretty closely, but after taking this sound and reversing it you got the effect exactly, as the attack was very low giving it a stronger jitter.
The stuttering base I used for this was an uneven, constantly changing one made with the granular synthesis module in Cecilia, I think this gives it a much more natural sounding feel, despite being something not found in nature weirdly enough, I really enjoy this effect and would love to use it creatively, perhaps for a soundscape in Chain of Being. It has this very hypnotic effect, this slightly changing repetition. I did it once more and formed it with my other attempts into a piece of some kind: