6 Jul
2004
6 Jul
'04
1:09 p.m.
Alejandro Lopez wrote:
I'm sorry to say I totally lack any hands-on
experience with these. I
sometimes hear of this or that software which makes use of this
technology, I seem to remember being told about some plugin for Cubase
VST something like 5 years ago already for instance, supposedly it did
audio quantize automagically. Also something like a couple of years ago
someone told me about another tool for Windows which has its own
frontend. With it, you would use samples to actually compose melodies
and the software would adjust notes. All things I've never tried myself.
As for Linux, I'm absolutely clueless in all respects. However, I can
well remember that, a bit to my embarrassment, our engineer once used a
hardware version of a tuner in a trumpet take (that was me playing, oh
well!). It was one of these module shaped affects that you use as
send-return. The results were just amazing. I believe they are used all
the time in studios as I've always seen them around since then.
I have a friend who runs a Pro Tools-based semi-pro studio in his
basement (and just about had to take out a second mortgage to pay for
it!), and he showed me some plugins that handle note tuning. He played
me an example with a singer unprocessed and then processed. It was
pretty neat, to say the least, but I have to say that the end result
sounded over-processed to my ears. It can make a mediocre singer sound
good, that's for sure! I'm not sure I would use it for something like a
guitar, though, where subtle nuances in fingering could be ruined by
trying to tune microtonic bends.
-- Brett
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