Using Elastic Audio in ProTools 7.4

In this tutorial, Jeff Dykhouse demonstrates how to use the power of ProTools 7.4's - Elastic Audio. Elastic Audio allows you to easily change the tempo and timing of your sound files without cutting up your tracks. Here Jeff uses Elastic Audio to fix an "out-of-time" guitar track.  This kind of fix would have taken longer using the old Beat Detective or manual cut and nudge methods.  Elastic Time makes it really easy.

This tutorial is taken from the upcoming ProTools 7.4 tutorial. For this and many other tutorials visit us at www.HowAudio.com.

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• Elastic
• Time
• Audio
• Music
• ProTools
• pro
• tools
• dykhouse
• time
• shift

[UberTroll13]

look kids...you don't need to learn how to play bass guitar, you can just use elastic audio, it's like autotune for your fingers!!!

Thanks,

Pete Wentz xxxx

[OutOnTheDay]

I find it really funny that you consider music lifeless if it was recorded with a click...

#1. A click is just a guide. You can still play behind the beat or ahead of it. It doesn't have to be unison with it.

#2. How easy is it to say that those bands back then didn't use all the technology we have today when the technology didn't even exist at that time! I'm sure if it did they'd make use of it like artists now.

#3. Robert Plant used autotune on his solo album.

[wolfierobblack]

DUDE YOU HELP ME SO MUCH HELL YEAHHH!!!

[larabini1]

Thanks :)))

[aznmidgetskater]

i fully understand now as to elastic audio works. i mess around with it all the time on my friend's laptop. but i am utterly helpless on where exactly i have to go to download the plugin for elastic audio onto my computer. help, anyone?

[retsofnalanosaj]

Thanks Jeff



[intermediate007]

that part was played really tight ... ha

[FriedAtheist]

@HowAudioTV this feature is not just to fix noobs who can't play.

I just worked magic with this tip by changing the complete tempo structure of a song and quantizing the guitars back to the new tempo map.

The original guitars i played were near perfect, but I wasn't happy with the original tempo map that they were played to. This feature is incredible even if you are a professional player.

[FriedAtheist]

@UberTroll13 this feature is not just to fix noobs who can't play.

I just worked magic with this tip by changing the complete tempo structure of a song and quantizing the guitars back to the new tempo map.

The original guitars i played were near perfect, but I wasn't happy with the original tempo map that they were played to. This feature is incredible even if you are a professional player.

[FriedAtheist]

this tutorial just saved me a whole lot of time and headache.

I can't believe what i just did with 2 acoustic guitar tracks.

I wasn't happy with the tempo fluctuation of a song in which the guitars were recorded very nicely to.

So I recreated a tempo map with the conductor tool and the tempo change feature... in which case the guitars were completely off tempo.

I quantized to 8th notes with elastic audio on polyphonic and made 2 minor corrections on transients. Results were amazing.

[CutClip]

what 6 idiots gave this a thumbs down?

[LastDayStudios]

Ladies and gents watch this guy>>>>He knows his stuff!!