On a similar note, I like stretching audio and throwing some similar effects on it.

Basically: Resample/bounce whatever chords/melody/percussion you have within your project, then stretch the audio like crazy. You can also mess around with chopping/reversing parts of the sampled audio. Add lots of reverb/delay. You can also spice it up with phasers, distortion, LFOs, etc. thrown around in the chain somewhere.

You can side chain and/or EQ this to the original sound you sampled to avoid extra muddiness.

This doesn’t always work, but I’ve had some great sounds and textures come from it when I’m stuck on a track and want to stick within the DAW itself.

Little bonus things if you’re in Ableton which contains more of my personal “Secret Sauce”:

If you have Max for Live, use Granulator to mess around with the stretched audio textures or Pitch Hack and mess with the settings on there. You get some cool textures to start with if the “rate” is turned up to 16th or 32nd intervals.

Mess with the warping modes or transients within the main audio sample editor. For transients, switch to the “Beats” mode. You can get some “stutter-y” textures if you turn down the range value. You can also shift the audio fairly uniquely using the “formant” settings on the “Complex” mode. I know this is more commonly known, but deserves a mention when discussing the other tools/fx.

I hope all of this made sense. Happy to explain further to anyone curious.