Pro Tools® 8 - Transpose with Elastic Pitch

[Sarrgas]

Does Elastic Pitch come included in Pro Tools? Or is it something you need to buy separately?

[jeasy2be]

You should let people know your using HD protools

[HanitpalSingh]

great... another alternative fucking way to have crap singers sound good like with autotune...

[charlesmusicwebs]

@HanitpalSingh But they could never become popular because of the inability to do a live singing performance. Plus - an audio expert would be able to tell if the singing was real or tampered with. Either way, it would get out that whoever it is isn't a good singer.

[Carlos11220]

i kno this might be of topic but, do u guys know how to make the pro-tools on screen follow the red-line.... i dont want to keep scrolling.... plz any1, msg me

[anytingtv]

Or you could just use Melodyne or Auto-tune...great feature though...

[Audiowithalex]

@anytingtv thats if you want to be super precise though, this is great if you want to pitch shift entire regions

[shoneew]

Want to transpose the entire song to another key How is this done in Pro Tools 8?

[drockyourock]

@shoneew if each track has multiple takes... firstly consolidate the entire track so it is one region... then apply elastic audio and shift for each track that you want to change in pitch

[shoneew]

Thanks for getting back to me. I will try it.-Then let you know!

[DrumminThaProducer]

Pitch SHiFt Sir.

[topgun9491]

This is cool.. But I like Ableton more

[bookofchapters]

Lets say I wanted to transpose a vocal. Something like they do in southern rap these days. How would I do this?

[waynegacy666]

I think Melodyne essential is included in PT8

[StarksIndustries]

whats transpose mean??

-STARKS!

[TheYeasteatingwalrus]

changing the key

[DrumminThaProducer]

Pitch Shift, in the drop down menu, just make sure you got time correction on. turn it down in semitones.

[blinklover2]

is there anyway to get this song?

[texdaddy123]

this may be a dumb question, but assuming your vocals were tuned perfectly could you use this to ultimately create harmonies without actually recording harmony parts?

[sloothsnoop]

not a dumb question at all.

yes, you definitely can create harmonies.

just create a couple of tracks, and duplicate the region you want to harmonize, then just shift until it fits !!woohoo!

[DigiRarefaction]

True, you can simply duplicate the track and create harmonies, though if transposed too much, artifacts will be introduced. But, in the mix it is sometimes very insignificant and goes unnoticed.

[waynefau]

@sloothsnoop unfortunately theory wont let you "move it up 20 or cents" and get perfect results because the major and minor third being a half step apart will usually leave some notes tuned and some dissonant. think about it they're not

ALL gonna be like 2 whole notes up. just use tuning software

[chuckawobbly]

There is actually a digi video of the guy in these videos doing just that but in 7.4. It is possible but when you are creating harmonies you may need to split some of the audio up and change the pitch different to the pitch you had for the other harmony's, otherwise there might be key clashes. Did that make any sense to you LOL?

[JaredPPP]

Yes.

[fridrikur]

It is fantastic. Sounds better , looks better, feels like it has been made for musicians now. The score editor works perfectly, and the new look is very smooth, and the bunch of virtuel instruments along with the brilliant selection of templates ensure you make music from day 1

[RyanMortimer13]

If you're so hung up on MIDI just use logic.. fuck

[Captnuendo]

Logic is OKAY..

[chrislpp]

What's all this about BUFFER nagging

can someone explain?

[Captnuendo]

Maybe you got a crap pc.. i dont get nags anymore. and im on a p4 2.8 ghz with 2gc of ram..

[UberTroll13]

I have P4 3 ghz but only 1g ram

I'd need 2gig ram but I have a macbook and this PC has loads of shit installed and would need cleaned up.

[Captnuendo]

me and u are in the same boat.. i just tested my instance load... i cannot have more than 3 xpands and 2 sansamp plugs.. i get super nags.... my workaround is create loops bounce to audio and leave one instance of rtas intruments.. its more work.. but it works!!! i need a dual core pc :(

[girotube]

DIGI! this is great but I have all these tools already in my DAW.

Can you fix the PT nagging about buffer.. You know, you are at your top producing then pop goes PT (nag, nag, nag, I need more buffer please)..

All I have to say is that when people see me working in cubase they say "what the heck, you can do that"?, "hey that awesome", "no way", "wow", "you go so fast", "thats is nice" ..they are talking about how awesome the workflow is and just using my $30., 2 clicks mouse... ;)

[FocusMix]

Here's a question - I just upgraded, right? So how do I enable the Zoom hotkeys? (you know, R & F on the QWERTY keyboard)?

[girotube]

LMBO this is old. for years I've been able to do it! and I just have to click once...! hah I use the mouse wheel to change the pitch!

Keep trying PT you will get there but we were there already! You look very nice now thanks to the developers how took stuff from other programs...

[theforsakenatheist]

what program have you been using? i'm a cubase user.

[girotube]

I can do that with Cubase and more..

Since Cubase came out with VST 5, you can chop audio and quantize it! create hit points and create groove quantize.. Then SX came out in 2001 and the rest is history... SX2, SX3, Stretching, hit points, timewarp etc, etc...

And just wait till you get your hands on Cubase 5!

PT8 still nags about the buffers... I have PT7 for transfer PT sessions to CUBASE or NUENDO where Audio editing really can be free...

[girotube]

With Cubase-Nuendo, I can change the pitch in real time and select audio parts and do audio editing on the fly (pitch correction without Antares) just like PT8 here is trying so hard to do.. when I've been doing it for years LOL.. PT is okl but the stuff they come up with, other systems have been doing it for a LONG time..

ALSO!! PT8 MIDI still suck!

When my colegas see me working in CUbase they want to shoot themselves when they go back to work with "pro tools" ;)

[theforsakenatheist]

i have cubase 4 atm. see i always thought cubase was awesome.. and the new features in 5 look off the scale... but coz you suggested being able to do automatic pitch correction inside of the program you were using, insted of something like melodyne which i am currently for pitch correction... i thought you might of been using something like cake walk as they have been doing built in pitch correction long before ethier PT or CB but i tried using that program once and hated it lol

[girotube]

Well Cubase can pitch correct since SX came out!

I used this feature many times to correct some parts of a vocal or trumpet.. Selecting the area you want to edit with the selection tool, then R-click, processes, pitch shift, using the envelope you can correct a flat vocal..

[theforsakenatheist]

not quite the same as the meleodyne correction technology though. or any of the new pitch correction software. in the newer programs the sounds nowhere near as affificial as your standard built in pitch shift, plus it the click of a mouse button no a long process of figuring how much your note is out by and how much it needs to shift. lol

[girotube]

Like I said! I can correct any vocal without Melodyne by using this tool in Cubase. If you need Melodyne to tune the entire vocal then you are spending the same amount of time or more! I just select here and there where its needed.. and bring a flat note to where it needs to be! OR! I tell the singer you are flat! (I always do) get the best performance and then edit what can't be well performed.

So yes Cubase can correct notes. And it can transpose audio on the fly.

[girotube]

AND! with C5 new plugins you can do this and more... dedicated vocal editor and autotuner plug in, convolution rev and so on!

my point here is that all these features are already on the DAW. Play order track and arrange and remix is here too long ago..

[texdaddy123]

you may be able to correct the pitches but to my ear from this video anyway there is a HUGE difference in actual quality from even the basic antares EFX vocal real time correction. cool feature to have stock, but i'd take melodyne or antares over it any day.

[Desbandados]

Download the manual called "what's new in version 8" in the digidesign web page and there you go.

[borgtennis]

How do you access elastic pitch? I just bought my version Friday and I can't find it. Is it in the audio suite or the plug -ings,.