sample PITCH SHIFTING (i.e. female vocal to male vocal)
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 5:22 pm
**** this is something i discovered doing remixes with sampled tracks. it's especially useful on vocals, for example if you want to turn a female vocal into a male vocal without it sounding robotic. or if you want to add backup vocals or complex harmonies to a single-vocalist track. also useful for any instrument sampling where you want to use the sound but change the melody. please not that for vocals it's best to have an isolated, acapella version of your vocal track. ****
- Go into your CLIP (your sample, .wav file or whatever) and find the TRANSPOSE function. If you drop or increase the transpose 12 points, you will change the melody one octave (i.e. your melody will stay the same but the voice will appear to be deeper or higher in pitch). If you drop or increase the transpose less or more than 12 points, you will be creating a new melody.
- to start, this will make a chipmunk voice, or a fake sounding deep voice like a record player playing too slow.
- To get a natural sounding voice (i.e. to make a woman's voice into a man's voice or vice versa), control how the transpose is applied using the Complex Pro function.
- You will see a little white box to the right of the transpose wheel with the words Beats, Tones, Texture, etc. when you click on the box. Select Complex Pro at the bottom of this list. You will then be given two values called Formants and Envelopes which allow you to control how the voice or sound is transposed. Playing around with different combinations of these two numbers will give you the desired sound you want, whether it's a voice or an instrument you are repitching.
- Additionally, using the envelope function (the little E in the left hand corner of all clip windows) and selecting the appropriate transpose function in the envelope menu which appears, you can DRAW in a melody using the mouse to basically create whatever melody you want from your .wav sample. this is specifically useful when sampling instruments, and generally the envelope function is a life-saver in a variety of ways.
- To make back up vocals or complex harmonies using this trick, play multiple clips (in different vertical tracks) at the same time with each clip having its own Transpose value.
- Go into your CLIP (your sample, .wav file or whatever) and find the TRANSPOSE function. If you drop or increase the transpose 12 points, you will change the melody one octave (i.e. your melody will stay the same but the voice will appear to be deeper or higher in pitch). If you drop or increase the transpose less or more than 12 points, you will be creating a new melody.
- to start, this will make a chipmunk voice, or a fake sounding deep voice like a record player playing too slow.
- To get a natural sounding voice (i.e. to make a woman's voice into a man's voice or vice versa), control how the transpose is applied using the Complex Pro function.
- You will see a little white box to the right of the transpose wheel with the words Beats, Tones, Texture, etc. when you click on the box. Select Complex Pro at the bottom of this list. You will then be given two values called Formants and Envelopes which allow you to control how the voice or sound is transposed. Playing around with different combinations of these two numbers will give you the desired sound you want, whether it's a voice or an instrument you are repitching.
- Additionally, using the envelope function (the little E in the left hand corner of all clip windows) and selecting the appropriate transpose function in the envelope menu which appears, you can DRAW in a melody using the mouse to basically create whatever melody you want from your .wav sample. this is specifically useful when sampling instruments, and generally the envelope function is a life-saver in a variety of ways.
- To make back up vocals or complex harmonies using this trick, play multiple clips (in different vertical tracks) at the same time with each clip having its own Transpose value.