(instrumental music)
- [Narrator] In order to adjust pitch in Pro Tools,
we're going to use this elastic audio component.
And this time, we're going to set it to polyphonic.
So typically, we would choose monophonic for a vocal,
because it is only one note at a time,
but for elastic pitch,
we're going to need to select this polyphonic algorithm.
You can see, it'll blink,
we've got a little green light next to the algorithm here
telling us that we are ready to go.
So, let's listen to this one passage here.
I'm particularly pitchy at the very last note here.
And a little bit of the beginning as well,
so let's see if we can clean this up.
(audio plays)
I need a little lift there at the end,
so let's see what we can do.
First things first is
you want to isolate the regions or the areas
in the regions that you do want to pitch.
So I'm going to zoom in here,
and find where the first syllable happens.
I'm going to go into slip mode for this.
(music plays)
Looks like right there is where I change
so I'm highlighting the areas that I want
to isolate and I'm using the key command command E
to separate this into its own distinct clip. And then again,
for the last note here I'm going to do the same thing.
Command E.
Next thing we want to do is access the elastic properties
which we're going to find in the clip menu here,
going to select elastic properties
and then here we have this menu.
So we'll place it right here
so we can see everything that's happening.
The two main areas you're going to want to look for
are these two boxes in the pitch shift,
part of this menu.
So, here we have semitones,
which is equivalent to a half step.
So if there were two semitones, it would be a whole step.
So you can pitch things up drastically
if you were exactly a semitone under a pitch.
You could easily pitch things up
or you can adjust by cents
which is a much more granular measurement
that's in between pitches.
So let's take a listen to this first clip.
(audio plays)
First let's try a semitone and see what happens.
So, I'm going to one semitone.
(audio pitch is raised)
So that's too much.
So back to zero,
I think I just needed a little bit of height here
so I'm going to notch it up maybe 16 cents
and we'll see what happens.
(audio pitch slightly lower)
I think that did help actually.
And let's take a look at this one as well.
I think I might've been an entire half step below.
I'm just adding,
I just typed in one into this pitch shift area
and let's hear what this sounds like.
(audio drastically pitches up at the end)
Too much!
So again, we're going to go back to zero here
and then I'm going to bump this up
maybe 30 cents, and we'll see how that adjusts.
(pitch sounding more accurate)
So this is sounding considerably better.
Back it up and listen to the whole phrase now.
(pitch sounding more accurate)
A lot better.
You can do this sort of piece by piece tuning
and if you're not making huge sweeping gestures
of adjustments across a whole vocal
and you just need to nudge a few notes,
this can be a really easy and fast way to fix them
inside of Pro Tools.