For me, I'm between Propellerhead's Reason and Native Instruments Maschine. I like the fact I can complete songs in either environment without leaving them!
Just pitch shift the vocals. The end result might sound crap depending on the software you use to achieve it. Kontakt 5 did have a not so good algorithm in Time Machine whenever you pitched/time stretched.
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Don't get too frustrated. It takes time to master chopping up samples. Listen to records; listen to parts of the records that sound like complete loops. Start from there, then you'll be chopping up different parts of the record to make new melodies and loops.
Tools help also. For...