Can’t remember where off the top of my head, but you can change the pitch down or up as many steps as you want, then change it back, without adjusting tempo. I do it whenever we want to try a cover out and want to hear how it sounds in D standard vs. E. I use the Play Rate Change adjust.
Kniferide wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:48 am
I would probably just render out a scratch of the mix, bring it into a track and pitch the item down, record my vocal to that scratch track, and then pitch the vocal track item back to match the original pitch. Are you doing a Chipmunks record?
Ha, nope! I just have a lower voice with a limited range. More like a baritone trying to sing a tenor’s part. I figured two steps max wouldn’t sound too Chipmunky. Doesn’t have to sound natural, it’s indie rock ffs. Broken Social Scene’s Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl comes to mind for example. Ain’t natural. Sounds fine.
I just remembered you can totally record in Reaper with the speed down and then just return the speed to normal. Reaper rules.
twelvepoint wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:45 pm
FM Tommy with the pipes here! PLEASE let this cover song be "More than a Feeling" or "Waiting for a Girl Like You" or "Faithfully" etc...
I wish. Nothing could be further from the truth. Singing is not my strong suit.
Guessing you don’t follow the PRF Monthly Tribute, but I’d be down for Boston or Foreigner!
Kniferide wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:48 am
I would probably just render out a scratch of the mix, bring it into a track and pitch the item down, record my vocal to that scratch track, and then pitch the vocal track item back to match the original pitch. Are you doing a Chipmunks record?
Ha, nope! I just have a lower voice with a limited range. More like a baritone trying to sing a tenor’s part. I figured two steps max wouldn’t sound too Chipmunky. Doesn’t have to sound natural, it’s indie rock ffs. Broken Social Scene’s Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl comes to mind for example. Ain’t natural. Sounds fine.
I just remembered you can totally record in Reaper with the speed down and then just return the speed to normal. Reaper rules.
i love that feature! feels almost 4-tracky. i use that sometimes when i want to overdub a harmony and have it sound a little less like my main vocal. will decrease the rate by ~6%, record my harmonies, then return back to normal rate. it's funny, sometimes when i do that my voice sounds straight up like emily.
Interested to hear everyone’s thoughts on this video - it’s a technique to get your latency calculator a little more exact.
I tried it last night with some mel9 I was reamping and some guitar tracks I was summing through a preamp and it seems to work great, though it was for a swooping kind of cinematic movement that didn’t require on the dot timing. It looks spot on just eyeballing it.
I feel like latency sort of ruined some early tracks of mine - I could feel it when I was playing along but just dealt, though when I listen back I can tell the timing is screwy. Like the overdubbed tracks just never came together in the end. Granted, it very well could be that I was less comfortable with recording, but I don’t think so.
llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Sat May 18, 2024 1:40 pm
Interested to hear everyone’s thoughts on this video - it’s a technique to get your latency calculator a little more exact.
I tried it last night with some mel9 I was reamping and some guitar tracks I was summing through a preamp and it seems to work great, though it was for a swooping kind of cinematic movement that didn’t require on the dot timing. It looks spot on just eyeballing it.
I feel like latency sort of ruined some early tracks of mine - I could feel it when I was playing along but just dealt, though when I listen back I can tell the timing is screwy. Like the overdubbed tracks just never came together in the end. Granted, it very well could be that I was less comfortable with recording, but I don’t think so.
easier and faster way.
Make a track in Reaper and insert Rea Insert (cockos plugin) on the track. Set the left input in the plug to a sound card output, set the Left Input to a soundcard Input, and set the right sides to "NONE". Now take a cable and loop out of you card back into your card and Hit "PING" in the plugin. It will tell you the exact round trip. I tried this against the way shown in the video and got the same result, which for my system is 32 samples. At 48000 samples per second that is 1/1500th of a second, so les than a millisecond, and to me, not worth being worked up about. But if you go to Settings/Recording at the bottom there you can see the manual offset, and mine was set for 38 MS because years ago I did this test I guess and got 38ms, and adjusted for it. IMO, unless you are at least at a MS or higher, I wouldn't worry about it unless you are doing some parallel effects with some outboard hardware or something, and when I do that, I use a single sample POP to calibrate the send every time because even with these offsets, they are never perfect, and seem to float a little.
OK, finished the video, he eventually gets there. Why do all Reaper videos take forever to get to the point?
With instruments being isolated in the DAW anyway, I nudge tracks wherever I see fit, sometimes to the point of artistic effect. If the bass sounds better nudged forward or back 5ms, just do it. But I haven't detected latency issues with Reaper, only with Ableton years ago.