“For Good,” i.e., for good purposes, not for ever. :)
Last week I played with the Antares Auto-Tune plugin for Audacity. One thing Auto-Tune does is that it takes an audio track, finds the pitch frequency, and bends that frequency to the standard set of frequencies. If one is on pitch, there isn’t much change; if one is off, the effects can be quite humorous.
To see how well I stayed on pitch, I ran the plugin against some of my Time Out tracks, and it was eye-opening in a good way. Here was a way I could get some immediate feedback on my singing. There’s room for improvement, but it’s improvement that could be achieved. Instead of doctoring the audio, I could improve the singing so that the audio would not need to be doctored up. Tomorrow’s Time Out, Episode 80, will show the results. I think you’ll like it.
Now that my trial for the Antares Auto-Tune is up, I’ve switched to a free plugin, KeroVee by g200kg. There is another plugin called GSnap that has similar functionality.
There is enough of a singing element in some speech to make auto-tuning quite entertaining. YouTube has an Auto-Tune-The-News Channel, but I think you’ll like the attached auto-tuning of a great Lutheran podcast, the God Whisperers. Enjoy.
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Dan,
I was wanting to Auto-Tune the convention, or at least parts of it. That would be good to do.
Cheers,
Jason
Perfect clip for auto-tuning. It’s like a cherry on top.
Dan, this has nothing to do with auto tune, but did you once commented on my site about pdf files and why they were used so much. I was wondering if you would mind clarifying.
I have a meeting at Clayton Mo city hall and was sent link to a new e-newsletter to see what I thought. Frankly, I don’t see a need for pdf files for all the city’s short news communications.
Thanks
Diane
No problem, will answer you in email.