Pitch Correction
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Posted on Sep 26, 2002 03:06 pm
the_germ
Member Since: Sep 24, 2002
what is the best way to impliment pitch correction... thru a program... or... thru an outboard unit..?
i hope u guys dont get sick of me... but i am working this year for the music department as i did last year saving up money and asking for gear at b-day and christmas... to get my studio better....
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Sep 26, 2002 03:09 pm Sick of you? Heck no, you are asking good questions...nothing worng with that.
I always pitch correct in software, WaveLab has a wonderful tool that you can time stretch and pitch shift either one or both.
One time I had a tape of an old radio show that was recorded at the wrong speed, so the radio personality sounded like a fast talking high-pitched girl...I recorded it to the hard drive brought it into Wavelab, stretched it out and lower the pitch and BAM, it turned out beautiful, the client was amazed...
Sep 26, 2002 03:26 pm thankx... i might check it out.... cep has one too... i just have never really tried it out... maybe ill make a tape and intensionally sing a wrong note or 2 and see if i can correct them...
...thats the only way to learn....by testing stuff out...
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Sep 30, 2002 08:13 pm They also make an outboard unit that really rock's, and you can get some very tweaked effect's out of it also.
Sep 30, 2002 11:09 pm i downloaded a copy of the tuner thing....and i couldnt get it to change any thing.... shrug...
also i get an elettronic sound sometimes with certain efects... when applying them.... what causes that....
Oct 01, 2002 03:46 pm An electronic sound? What kinda of sound? And what kind of effects are they? Some demo versions of software effects produce a "beep" or some tone every so often so that you cant use them without paying full the full version. Can you give some details?
Oct 01, 2002 03:53 pm i dont really know how to expain it... to be honest..... like say... i wanted to make my voice lower.... and so u de-tuned it.... it would make this.... it almost sounds like a little bit of flanger or fazer in the background like an added sound that isnt the voice doing it.... but....extra added noise and it makes it sound cheep...
Oct 01, 2002 04:37 pm oh! i know what you mean. all those reverby, robotic harmonics.. yeah you get that with about any pitch shifter i think... i know the lowend freebies are bad for it. I'm using Steinberg's WaveLab v3 and its built-in time stretch/pitch shift doesn't do it nearly as bad, but it's still audible. Still, it's the best one I've used... I'd love to find a "perfect" pitch shift, but in my understanding of what exactly is happening to the audio, I think we're lucky to have what we have. Anyone out there have any comments on eliminating those harsh harmonics??
Oct 01, 2002 05:39 pm yeah if they did that would be great..... cause they are really starting to get anoying...
my pitch shifter in cool edit works ok...
grrrr but i cant get the Auto Tune to work properly... like when i click on key.. it doesnt change the key.... it stays the same... like the letter changes but the sound doesnt...
the frustrations of recording...
Oct 01, 2002 05:42 pm and those noises are bad too... it looks like my best option is to get an efx outboard unit and add efects before i record...
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Oct 01, 2002 11:25 pm About the only way to avoid it is to use the Antares rack unit. I have use the pitch shift in sonar and CakeWalk with pretty good luck, and no chipmunk or falngy sound.
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Oct 01, 2002 11:57 pm Oh ya, I almost forgot. You can look for an option called FORMANT PRESERVING. Sonar and Sound Forge have it as an option in there pitch shifter's. What it does is eliminate most of the harsh sound's you get when you tune down to extreme low tone's. You may also want to look at some preset's the pluggin might have. Although I am guessing the demo doesn't have any. These are usually tuned to work the unit to perfection and avoid all those nasty after effect's you get using a pitch shifter.
Oct 02, 2002 05:17 am I have used the Pitch shift in WaveLab (version 3 at the time I think) to an extreme and it worked very well.
Oct 02, 2002 01:47 pm Ahh! I just noticed that there are three "quality" settings within WaveLab's pitch correction. I get much better results with it set on High Quality. WaveLab is friggin awesome! Best $300 I ever spent! -j
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Oct 02, 2002 09:18 pm Just poke around and you will alway's find something.
Oct 02, 2002 09:40 pm yeah i got cool edit to do it very nicely thankx... i just wanna get pitch correction working rihgt so that when i get a tone deaf singer i can do somehting .... to make him sound decent....eheh
thanks guys
