From the course: Remixing Techniques: Time Stretching
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Time stretching the vocals to a faster BPM
From the course: Remixing Techniques: Time Stretching
Time stretching the vocals to a faster BPM
As you can see, I made quite a few edit points to my audio clip, and while I might be sitting in beat against my MIDI drums, I'm not 100% sure that my phrasing is accurate. So I need to give myself a little bit more of a musical context, and I'm going to create a bass line. So I'll create a Stereo instrument track using Xpand, and I'll just select any kind of bass. We'll do a Fretless Bass, that's fine. We'll record enable the track. (music playing) Excellent! I'll give myself 1-bar pre-roll, and I already that this song is in G-Major, so I pretty much know in my head a bass line that will probably work against the vocals, if not all the way through the song for most of it. But I'm interested in coming up with an 8-bar pattern that I will paste throughout this entire sketch arrangement, and then I'll go through and listen to the vocals against the 8-bar arrangement to make sure that the phrasing will work in a remix context. (music playing) Quantize my bass line to 16th notes, put Pro…
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Starting from a pre-existing Pro Tools multitrack session13m 34s
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Tightening up a vocal that drifts from the click track, part one9m 55s
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Tightening up a vocal that drifts from the click track, part two7m 37s
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Subdividing 6/8 time and changing the time signature to 4/47m 5s
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Editing vocal phrasing to work with 4/4 time7m
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Time stretching the vocals to a faster BPM9m 1s
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