scottcmusic

Windows 10 just updates pretty much whenever it wants to I take it. Maybe there is a setting somewhere that overrides that ... Anyway, After this latest update, I loaded Melodyne, which had been working, as a region clip and many of the normal tools were missing. Then I received a fatal error prompt and CbB crashed. I opened it up again and tried V-Vocal. Same thing. It must be to do with the Region Effects feature. Anybody else? This all seems to have occurred after the new Win 10 update. Everything had been working so smoothly prior to that.

You know what? I think I have that video. But you guys have given me some cool stuff to experiment with. I'll have to see which timing parameter to modulate with my keyboard pitch wheel so I can play the flanger while recording this automation live.

Have you found a way to alter the flanging over time? I haven't tried Craig's trick yet myself, but am very interested in using it to get the Journey "Anytime That You Want Me" flanging where the whole band is affected. When you do this with an actual tape deck, you place one finger on the flange of one of the reels to affect flanging in real time almost like you would a wah pedal. So it can be very expressive that way. You are playing the flanger like an instrument. Is there a way to tweak this in real time to manually modulate this parameter with Craig's workaround?

The book is great. Just the workflow stuff alone is worth 20 chops. It has the through zero flanging trick too, which I had been trying to hunt down.

Exactly you guys. It's actually harder and more involved to do this in the current day with modern technology than it was in the old days when you would just twiddle a knob. There's a plugin idea for someone! An effective, life -like varispeed control for digital audio. What I also really want to do is, on the Beatles song "Rain", and even "Strawberry Fields" at certain parts, the tape was sped up, George would tune to it, record his part, then when they slow it back down to normal speed, his guitar has this ethereal and very trippy timber to it that you can't get any other way.

Great job on the tutorial.

Cool. Ask and ye shall receive. This from Craig (thanks): "This was a common technique with analog tape: Slow it down or speed it up, sing along, then return the speed to normal and the voice would be on pitch but have a different formant and character. Here’s how to do this with Sonar. 1. Create a premix of the song that starts at the beginning. Mute all other tracks. 2. Open the premix in the Loop Construction window. 3. From the Clip drop-down menu, enable Stretch On/Off. 4. Move the Threshold slider all the way to the left (0%) so all the markers disappear. This is very important. 5. The two right-most fields adjust semitones and cents respectively. Do not enable the Pitch button! That will just confuse things. Cents will adjust +/-49 cents which should be enough. If not, for example if you need to make the pitch 70 cents sharp, set semitones to 1 and cents to -30. (For Chipmunk effects, set semitones to +12 .) 6. After adjusting the pitch, create a track and record the new clip while monitoring the premix. 7. If you started recording anyplace other than the beginning, slip edit the new clip to the beginning, bounce the clip to itself to add this extra length, then open the clip in the Loop Construction window. 8. Repeat steps 3-5, but this time, adjust pitch equal and oppositely. For example if the premix was -36 cents, set cents for the new clip to +36. 9. Bounce the new clip to itself, and now it will be at the correct pitch and tempo but with a different formant and character. You may need to trim the end, as Sonar will still think this is a loop and repeat part of the beginning. You can now delete the premix."

Awesome. Will take a peek.

Great FREE convolution reverb I use to run IRs. https://www.kvraudio.com/product/nadir-by-ignite-amps

I got a pretty good formants tool in Melodyne ... I'm not as interested in that part of it as I am the ability to finally be able to sing high harmonies above the melody that would normally be above my range. I want to build up some BGVs Todd Rundgren style just using my own voice. So, I need something that lets me lower the pitch of a master WAV file. Then, once I sing the vocals, and re-pitch to the original key, I could then paste in the BGV tracks into my song file. He demonstrates this in the video pretty well. Thanks for your input.

Is anybody aware of a way within CbB to varispeed an audio file of a song down a few steps? If not directly in the DAW, how about a plugin? I usually layer all my parts up myself, including vocals. The trouble there is, it can be really obvious sometimes to the listener that it's the same guy singing all the parts himself. I'm interested in the varispeeding technique Jamie Lidell demonstrates in this video. You pitch the song down (or up) and layer the vocals in that pitch. Then, you return the file to regular speed and you have different timbres for your BGV parts.