Audio Arts – Week 5 – “Outside the square” Pt 2" - 01/04/08
Just a touch out with the Zeppelin..
First this week I have vaguely attempted to sing a major arpeggio into Pro-Tools and had the plug-in correct my appalling intonation. The result sounded better when rounded up to a major 6th and the trademark Auto-Tune sonification can be heard in all its glory.
Next I took a sample of myself singing Led Zeppelin’s “Black Dog”. The intonation was awful and I graphically corrected some of the painful spots. There were two points in which the pitch slides up or down to a note that I didn’t make. Finite use of the line tool was the key. The correction is an improvement but Auto-Tune can’t make me sound like a singer.
Lastly I tried something abstract with a line from a righteous brothers song, once again sung terribly by me. I saturated it with multiple processes of Auto-Tune in the Audio Suite domain, harshly correcting all notes to a single Bb. I then duplicated the track, duplicated the two again, and reversed the last two waveforms. Then I graphically drew exaggerated ramps in opposite directions in separate Auto-Tune plug-ins for both pairs resulting in a Grand Prix racing type sample.
Click here to link to online folder containing MP3 examlples.
Reference:
Grice, David. “Outside the square” Pt 2. Lecture presented at Studio One, Level 5, Schultz Building, University of Adelaide, 1st of April 2008.
posted by David J Dowling @ 6:36 PM
2 Comments:
Ahh Autotune. The tool one uses when they can't sing. LOL has anyone done the Cher effect yet?
Aye, apparently it's the tool to use even when one can! There's some mild Cher-esque action in my accompanying audio files, but check John Delany's blog for some thing more extreme.
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