Pitch-shifting in protools 8

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Hello all,

My name is Trace. I have Pro-Tools 8.5. I recorded a song with a full band and after we recorded everything we realized the vocal sounded better in E (the original key was D). I tried using the pitch-shifter that came with Pro-Tools, but now the sound warbles. Is there a way I can use the pitch-shifter in a way that doesn't mess up the sound, or is there some sort of plug-in I need to get?

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.

-Trace
 
Trace305 said:
Hello all,

My name is Trace. I have Pro-Tools 8.5. I recorded a song with a full band and after we recorded everything we realized the vocal sounded better in E (the original key was D). I tried using the pitch-shifter that came with Pro-Tools, but now the sound warbles. Is there a way I can use the pitch-shifter in a way that doesn't mess up the sound, or is there some sort of plug-in I need to get?

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.

-Trace
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Are you retuning the entire mix or just the vocal part?
Using a plugin, or elastic audio?

Either way, I think you'll always get some kind of artefacts going on.
I've used elastic audio for timing and pitch correction before, but there's definitely a limit to what sounds acceptable.

Having said that, I repitched one of Armistice's mixes on here by a semitone (I think) and no one caught on. Maybe no one cared....:yawn:
 
Steenamaroo said:
Are you retuning the entire mix or just the vocal part?
Using a plugin, or elastic audio?

Either way, I think you'll always get some kind of artefacts going on.
I've used elastic audio for timing and pitch correction before, but there's definitely a limit to what sounds acceptable.

Having said that, I repitched one of Armistice's mixes on here by a semitone (I think) and no one caught on. Maybe no one cared....:yawn:
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Hi Steenamaroo,

Thanks for replying. I'm retuning the entire mix, I just tried it via Elastic Audio, which gave me results very close to what I wanted (as opposed to my earlier method of using the Audiosuite pitch-shifter), but the results are still just a little off. Do you know of any pitch-changing plug-ins that can make the transition super-clean?

Thanks again!

-Trace
 
Hmm. I'm not aware of anything that would be better.
It's really not ideal at all, to be honest.

Do you still have access to the mix? I can't say for fact, but I bet it'd sound better putting elastic audio on the individual tracks, or at least stems.

Worth trying?
 
Steenamaro,

I tried the Elastic option and it's definitely an improvement. Tomorrow I'm going to try some free demos from Serato and Melodyne and see if that really hits it. Thanks again!

-Trace
 
Steenamaroo said:
Do you still have access to the mix? I can't say for fact, but I bet it'd sound better putting elastic audio on the individual tracks, or at least stems.
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Did you get what I meant there?
The drums, for example, don't need to be tuned.
Rather than pitching the stereo mix, go back a step and pitch the vocal, bass, guitars etc.
 
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