what I love about this method is you can make the gate only a tiny fraction of your sound at each division. I love how staccato this can become; staccatissimo, if you will. another nice feature is you can very easily vary the release to make your stutter less machinist -- an evolving gate sounds much more organic and can open compositional possibilities. in fact, all the controls are automatable. the best part of all is you can feed in any rhythm you want - even a dynamic one that isn't simply hitting every 16th or 8th note.

those are three ways you can stutter sounds in ableton live! I encourage you to experiment with these techniques & see what results you come up with.