Hi Chris

No, it sounds like given the circumstances I’m going to have to do separate 
vocal tracks.  The harmonisation issue doesn’t exist, as I have perfect pitch, 
after a fashion these days, but I do still have it.

As I said, there are two issues here regarding ProTools.  Lynne tells me that 
the funds could be made available if need be.  But the main issue is that it 
seems that Avid will only ship ProTools boxed, not downloadable.  That said, I 
am tempted by the M Audio box they are currently offering alongside a purchase 
of ProTools.  But I think I’d prefer a digital download.

I’m keen to get this done, but I need to brush up on my production of FX and 
VoiceOver skills.  I have a bunch of pre-recorded FX’s here which I need to 
loop together.  To make them sound right even over a VoiceOver is something I’m 
going to have to learn over again because I haven’t done this kind of work 
digitally.  I used to do it daily when we were back in the good old world of 
tape splicing.   But that was about a million years ago and I’ve probably 
forgotten all the skills I once had.  But I want to re-learn.

Kind regards

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On 29 Oct 2013, at 21:38, 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.

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