Aug 30, 2005 10:39 am Have you looked thru nTrack for speed change features. Most software based tracker have a feature that should allow you to do just this with no pitch changes...
record at slow speed-- play back at normal with no pitch change?
Posted on Aug 30, 2005 10:21 am
zigzag
Member Since: Mar 14, 2005
have a guitar piece that's just to tricky to record at normal speed. I'd like to slow the song down while i record the solo and then be able to put the song back to normal speen without
altering the pitch of my guitar solo. i want to record this guitar piece in digital audio, not midi.
i have nTracks, power tracks 3.3, power tracks pro audio ver 9, and an older ver of cool edit pro (i think its 1.2). do any of these software offer such a feature? when i try to use the song speed feature in nTracks, it tells me that its not supported.
i tried doing a search in hrc under song speed, speed control and several others but it didn't yield anything useful
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Aug 30, 2005 10:39 am Have you looked thru nTrack for speed change features. Most software based tracker have a feature that should allow you to do just this with no pitch changes...
Aug 30, 2005 12:58 pm failing that Ableton Live or Acid Pro are specifically designed for this kinda thing...
Aug 30, 2005 08:57 pm CEP has it (if 1.2 does "real-time" effects), but it'll be tough to do it. Take a reference track, or mixdown what you have so far to a mono track and mute everything else in Multi-track View. Import, if necessary & select the mono track (or reference track) where your solo will go (just do like a "punch-in" area, only where the guitar solo will be). In the Effects (and I can't remember the names) you'll find your time/pitch effects, and apply a tempo change. You may have to play around with it like I did (and it's fun, too!) (lol) to figure out what you're doing; practice your lead over the part looping, and when ready, go for it. (The Help box is most helpful...) Now mute your reference track and unmute everything else. Your solo track will be too long, and you'll have to apply the same effect as you did to the reference, but speed it up by an approximately opposite percentage. I say "approximately". You'll have to twiddle with the settings a bit and might end up with a wierd percentage to get it to fit. Do not expect the guitar to come out sounding "boss". It will turn into a whimpy sounding piece of metallic tin that is very irritating. But EQ will help a bit, and if you bury it in the mix, and and and... Good luck. I decided on mine (couple of years ago and in the trash can) that the effort was not worth the result. So I practiced. And I practiced. And I practiced some more... I still can't play the part I hear in my mind's ear...
Aug 31, 2005 01:10 pm Time-stretching'll do it, but it can get pretty wobbly if it's a huge alteration and a big file you're doing it to, how much depends a lot on your processor and the quality of the plug-in.
Sep 04, 2005 07:17 am many tks to all who responded to my post on time stretch. jimmie neutron, thanks for the input about cep. wish i could tell you i got the piece done on the first take but actually i'm still fooling with it. it'll come in due time.
tks again everyone
fivestring
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