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On Dec 4, 2004, at 18:27, Ronan Chris Murphy wrote: >> That there Antares Vocal Helper Cher-Box Pitch >> Corrector thingy.... When I recognize it on a vocal, >> yes, it makes me retch. However, I can't help but >> wonder what'd sound like when used to process >> something like an oud, a fretless bass, or (can we >> talk about this here?) to post-process a loop. Yeah, I >> know that when it's active in the circuit, you'd most >> likely lose the microtonal nuances that make fretless >> instruments so cool, but would that 'jumping to pitch' >> thing make any sounds that might be interesting in >> their own right? >> > > The vocal helper thingy you are talking about is called Auto-tune. > You can certainly get some interesting effects from using Auto-tune > "inappropriately" The most interesting thing is that for fretless > performances with slow glissando, AT will get confused about what > pitch it is supposed to be tuning to and bounce back and forth between > notes. If you set AT so that is takes a while before it starts > correcting a pitch you can actually "fix" a note with out much of the > audible artifacts, but you will of course kill the natural vibrato > which is such a lovely part of fretless instruments. I think pitch correction is a cool tool and I actually liked that Cheer tune! The effect has been used in a little different way by artists like Daft Punk or Röyksopp. But I've been a fool for real-time pitch transposing all since I heard Jon Hassel for the first time. I think he was playing the trumpet through an Eventide... something, harmonizer? Anyway, I'm playing around here with a borrowed Eclipse now and it's like having four parallel autotune plug-ins in a hardware box. Very inspiring! I really don't see the point in not using pitch correction. After all we make music to set up imaginary worlds, not to show that we can handle certain musical instruments ;-) Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen --- http://www.looproom.com (international) http://www.boysen.se (Swedish site) http://www.cdbaby.com/perboysen