how to make a transponed audioclip sound more dense?

smog g · Post by **smog g** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 4:55 pm

when you use the lives fantastic feature to transpose an audio loop up or down, the result is sometimes not so wonderfull, especially with wide/atmospheric sounds,
nomatter which warp mode you take (beat, complex...)
the more you shift the loop up or down from its original pitch , the more it can be heared. (the sound is not really clipping, but it looses viatality and tightness.)

which procedures can be done to cure the sound again?

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:24 pm

a little reverb to help blend it back together?

smog g · Post by **smog g** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 2:46 pm

danm right! that could help a little.
and i think a little eq to rise the high tones on down pitched stuff.

any other ideas?

smog g · Post by **smog g** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 10:59 am

imstillcuriose

beamsville · Post by **beamsville** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 11:17 am

can't try this until I get home from work, but here's a posible suggestion:

play the same sample in two or more tracks, each transposed by the same semi-tones, but vary them in one or more ways such as:

-change the Detune a few CTs
-change the offset just a tinie bit
-use different but similar reverbs
-(as you said) eq, but they could be different
...

smog g · Post by **smog g** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 12:38 am

detune? mmhh. i think this will sound like chorus?

beamsville · Post by **beamsville** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:04 am

indeed, or phasing (although both effects have LFO on how much they detune)

chorus is actually another good suggestion, as the idea was to make the sound more dense

cheers

smog g · Post by **smog g** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:32 pm

well, i think this will ake the sound really dense but allso too fat. and maybe way too different from the original but from case to case this might be a good thing...