Start Ableton. Load the vocal that you want to gate into the audio channel, and then load a Drum Rack plug-in onto the MIDI channel. Load a closed hi-hat sample into one of the slots in the Drum Rack and double-click a slot in the MIDI channel to create a new MIDI clip.
Double-click the note fields in the MIDI clip to program the desired gate pattern. The gate will open on every beat that contains a note. Use 8th or 16th notes for the pattern.
Drag and drop Ableton's Gate plug-in from the Live Devices section onto the audio track. Click the "Sidechain" button on the gate, and then select "Drum Rack." Click the "Track Activator" button on the Drum Rack channel to mute the hi-hat sample.
Play the vocal. Drag the "Threshold" slider downward to increase the Gate effect. The lower the slider, the more gating Ableton applies to the vocal.
Open the vocal in your digital audio workstation, and then drop the StormGate1 VST plug-in onto it. Click the "A" button at the bottom of the Stormgate1 window.
Click the "Subdivide" drop-down menu and select "1x," "2x," "3x" or "4x." The higher the subdivision setting, the more pieces StormGate1 divides the vocal into.
Click the "Step" button. Click and drag the green line inside the StormGate1 window to program the gate. To open the gate for any given division, drag the line to the top of the window; to close it, drag it to the bottom. The higher the green line is, the more the gate opens.
Play the vocal. StormGate1 applies the programmed gate pattern to the audio.
Open the vocal in your audio program. Drop the Gat'r plug-in onto the vocal channel.
Click "Have a Gat'r Day" to open the presets menu. Load a blank preset by clicking one of the numbered presets on the far right of the presets menu.
Click the "Tempo" button and select a note length from the pop-up menu. A shorter tempo setting makes the gate open and close faster.
Click the boxes underneath "Sequencer" to program the gate pattern. Gat'r can gate the left and right audio channels independently of each other. To open the gate for the left channel, click the top box in a column; to open the right channel, click the bottom box. Click both boxes in a column to open the gate for both channels.
Play the vocal to listen to the gate effect.