> Same here. I have my degree in business of music and technology and we
> learned a lot about this digital editing stuff. It is best to have them sing
> all the harmonies especially when you are dealing with cord inversions. Or
> find other voices to sing them. Wink. On Oct 29, 2013, at 14:38,
> "Christopher-Mark Gilland" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Quite bluntly,
>
> The obvious thing to do actually wouldn't be to get ProTools, but would be to
> get someone who could sing correctly in the range needed for the harmoney
> part and do it naturally. Otherwise, it's gonna sound terrible! Yes, you
> can raise the pitch, but then you look at two problems. Firstly, the person
> will either 1, sound all chipmunk like, or 2, they will sound all chipmunk
> like, plus if you force it to only adjust the pitch, not the speed, then
> you'll introduce really weird sounding artifacts. coming from me being a
> professional sound engineer who does this for a living, trust me, just to do
> pitch correction, is probably not what you're looking for here. It does have
> it's time and place, yes, and without hearing the raw vocal, it's hard to
> say, but I just can't see that being the best way to work through this.
>
> Chris.
>
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Smith" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 11:29 AM
> Subject: Sound recording, music, vocal tracks
>
>
>>
>> Hi all
>> This is probably going to sound a bit of a strange question, but here goes
>> anyway. I've been asked to work with a young lady who wants to do some
>> vocali for the jingles on our new comamunity radio station which we are
>> opening up for the people of our town on 5 Nevember. If she prepares a
>> vocal track, is there any way we can use that track with a higher pitch so
>> that we can create a vocal harmony mix? I'm sure you know the kind of thing
>> I'm talking about, it is something you hear a lot of in professionally
>> recorded muksic.
>> Unfortunately, I don't have access to ProTools yet, as it is out of our
>> price range just at the moment. We do, however, have access to a number of
>> other audio editors/recording tools such as Peak Express, NCH Software
>> WavePad, Amadeus Pro and quite a few others. I also have access to
>> GarageBand, of course, and I'd really like to get into using that because
>> I'd love to be able to use virtual instruments with my M Audio keyboard.
>> But unfortunately, I don't consider myself nearly qualified enough to
>> attempt a mission-critical recording "sing GarageBand at this point in time.
>> I very much welcome advice and opinion either on or off list. Of course, I
>> know that the obvious answer here would be either to get hold of a copy of
>> ProTools, or else let somebody else do this work. But neither is an option
>> just now. So it's a matter of making do with what we've got.
>> KIND regards
>> Gordon Smith
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