Live Processing Vibraphone to make EDM/IDM/etc. sounds

Hi all,

I have written a few pieces in Max and know my way around pretty well for things I have done before but I wouldn't consider myself advanced. However, you can assume a basic working knowledge of the program and an ability to look through a patch a mostly figure out how it is working. I appreciate any help.

I am writing a piece for vibraphone and electronics using Max and I want some tips on objects, etc. to explore to make the vibes sound more gritty and electronic. Artists like Squarepusher, Venetian Snares and Aphex Twin come to mind for the sound palette.

Some examples of what I want to do are take the vibes down an octave (I currently do this using gizmo~) then I want this to be the growly, distorted, full bass sounds in these types of tracks. I am coming up dry on objects to accomplish this type of distortion. I have worked with degrade~ a bit but it doesn't seem to do what I want.

Outside of this specific sound I am just wanting to make the vibraphone sound more electronic and experiment with some sounds. I can create a lot of the sounds I want in Logic and just create a fixed track for the performer to play over the top but it would be much more satisfying to accomplish some of this through processing.

Thank you for the help