Neat trick...how do i do it?

off.the.walls

So i saw this before basically, you have one track with vocals, and another is a midi track with some chords playing and somehow you trigger the vocals and they come out in the note that the keyboard is playing. Does anyone know what i'm on about and how to do this?

Cheers

Seziertisch

Vocoder?

off.the.walls

Not sure, the way i think it was shown was record the vocals, set up midi track, insert a gate onto the track and make the trigger the vocals. But i can't reproduce the effect.

Adyx

I'm not sure this is what you mean but I was playing around with a free version of the Meldaproduction Harmonizer which sounds like it does what you want.

That said I also remember reading an article (in SOS) I think about doing something similar in Ableton Live. It might have been just a vocoder though.

fitz

off.the.walls wrote: »

Not sure, the way i think it was shown was record the vocals, set up midi track, insert a gate onto the track and make the trigger the vocals. But i can't reproduce the effect.

Are you talking about triggering the midi instrument track off the vocals?
So, the midi track is only played when there's vocals? If so, just slap a gate on the midi track, set the gates sidechain to the vocal track, adjust the gate's threshold to taste and you should ok. If you're looking to get the midi notes to be detected from what the vocal is doing, that's a different thing entirely...

kabaal

If you use Autotune, you can have it so that the pitches of a vocal melody are dependent on the pitches played by the midi track. So for example if you had a vocal track that at particular point was singing an A, if you had a midi track playing a B, the note sung by the vocalist would snap to a B. Thus you can basically rewrite the pitches of the vocal melody in realtime using a keyboard or a midi track.

If you looking to simply have the chords played on the keyboard or midi track "sound like they are singing" then yes it is phase vocoding your looking for.

Hope this helps...any questions let us know

off.the.walls

Thanks guys vocoding is what i was looking for.

Denalihighway

there should be some good vids on Youtube for this - I found a good one but I use cubase (think you're on PT if I remember correctly)

might need to download a vocoder etc

krd

There's a free autotune plugin I have that can do that.

I have got it to work yet - but you have a midi track play a sequence, and the plugin takes that midi channel as an input, then it pops all the audio into tune with the midi.

A vocoder does something a little different. A vocoder filters out anything that's not in tune with your input note