Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

Hi..

OK I have no Autotune  stuff and have never really used it however at times wish I had.  Not that I am a great believer in such things but occasionally it would really help some singers recordings etc.    I do quite a bit of a cappella recording and some singers just ca never "cut the mustard".

Just wondering is the software plugin better than the hardware version?
What do people use and what do they prefer?


Steve Currington
de Composer
Wellington, New Zealand
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On Dec 18, 2009, at 6:20 PM, Stephen Currington wrote:
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> OK I have no Autotune  stuff and have never really used it however  
> at times wish I had.  Not that I am a great believer in such things  
> but occasionally it would really help some singers recordings  
> etc.    I do quite a bit of a cappella recording and some singers  
> just ca never "cut the mustard".

I've never used the hardware, so can't answer your questions, but I  
was never able to use any pitch correction with a cappella groups  
because they tend to tune to each other, and can drift a bit over the  
course of a song.  Since AT tries to keep vocals at a single  
reference pitch, you end up having to keep modifying the settings  
throughout the song.  Kind of a nightmare.  I ended up having better  
luck using the time and pitch machine to fix individual notes.  Well,  
I guess AT has a graphical mode that lets you draw in the amount of  
correction over time, so that might work.  I had only the old LE  
version and then Logic's pitch correction, which both have only  
automatic mode, and that's what wasn't working for me on the a  
cappella stuff.

Gregory



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If you must use Autotune I use the Celemony Melodyne plugin. Plays well with logic as an AU plug and is more transparent than some others. Latest version allows individual note editing in a 2 track mix but I haven't had time to try that out. I have a love hate relationship with it but when it saves a dramatic take its great.

On Dec 18, 2009, at 3:20 PM, Stephen Currington wrote:

> Hi..
> 
> OK I have no Autotune stuff and have never really used it however at times wish I had. Not that I am a great believer in such things but occasionally it would really help some singers recordings etc. I do quite a bit of a cappella recording and some singers just ca never "cut the mustard".
> 
> Just wondering is the software plugin better than the hardware version?
> What do people use and what do they prefer?
> 
> Steve Currington
> de Composer
> Wellington, New Zealand
> Web: http://www.singers.org.nz
> Twitter: @kiwicomposer
> Facebook: kiwicomposer
> SkypeID: kiwicomposer
> 
> -------------------------------------
> My Studio
> Hardware: 24" iMac 2.8Ghz, 4Gb RAM, 320Gb Int. HDD, 2 x 1Tb Ext. HDD, 500Gb Portable Ext. Drive, 
> M-Audio AxiomPro49 Keyboard, Motu Traveler Firewire Audio, various microphones
> Software: OSX v10.6 (Snow Leopard), Sibelius 6.03, Logic Studio v8 & v9, various software Synth and instruments
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> 
> 



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