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- (Instructor) Moving on to editing pitch,
I've performed one more bounce in place
and I named this track "Pitch"
and the previous ones "Timing" and "Comp"
to indicate which edits I did in which version of this file.
Let's turn on the flex tool for this file here,
and it's down in the sample editor.
Instead of flex time, because I already did my timing edits,
I'm going to select flex pitch from this menu
and you can see that there's some stuff going on
in the file already.
I just need to scroll down,
'cause here's my piano roll on the left hand side.
You can see I'm actually seeing
a very high register right now,
and I didn't sing that high
so I'm gonna scroll down until I start seeing
the notes that I did sing.
There they are.
Just going to zoom in quickly.
Turn the cycle off.
So what's happening really is that Logic
is converting audio to MIDI.
And as MIDI, you know you can adjust the duration
and the placement of all events,
so in a lot of ways it's a very similar work flow
to editing MIDI.
You can see if I just hold this note,
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it's indicating which tone that I'm singing,
and if I hover on this middle dot
on the top part of the event,
it's telling me how sharp or flat I am.
Right now it's giving me the number four.
Let's see what happens if I pull down.
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Then I get to a negative number.
So each pitch, or each semi-tone,
is made up of 100 cents.
Right here it's telling me I am eight cents flat,
or if I go up,
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you can hear it going with me, I am 37 cents sharp.
In a lot of ways, it's very mathematical.
Just moving the events until they are close to zero.
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Anything that's within 10 cents,
you typically don't wanna tune.
The human ear isn't going to recognize that
as really being sharp or flat.
Or some people will, but most people won't.
You don't want to make your voice be a robot,
you just want to fix the pitches
that really sound off pitch.
So you do need to look at these numbers,
but then perhaps more importantly,
you actually need to be using your ears
and follow that more than the number
that you're seeing on the screen here.
On the left, I can adjust the pitch drift,
so you can see I kinda scooped down into this note.
If I grab it, I can just pull the note down.
Pretty crazy.
Same thing on the other side,
I can adjust how I'm scooping into the next note.
Down here I can add overall gain
to this syllable or this word.
Here is a vibrato parameter that I can flatten out
this note or add even more vibrato to it.
The formant shift isn't really going to be important
for us right now, we don't want to do anything too crazy.
Going through and quickly just looking at a pitch,
looks like I'm 32 cents sharp.
So let's grab it.
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32 cents is kind of a lot. (techno music)
Let's find a place in this file
where I did not so good of a job,
which shouldn't be too hard to find.
I know in the pre-chorus, I struggled a lot
because it's very high for me.
Perfect, you can see there's this sort of
step-wise line cliche that I have going on.
I'm gonna zoom in here and we'll just quickly take a listen
to what it is we're looking at.
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All right, I could use a little love there.
So it's telling me that I'm actually very close
to being on pitch with this first note.
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(electronic buzzing) 27 cents flat.
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See this next one, 34 cents flat.
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It's a lovely sound, isn't it?
It looks like I'm very sharp here.
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Let's listen now.
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So I actually was just really flat
instead of actually sharp.
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I'm just gonna grab this note and pull it up.
So you can see I just really quickly made that adjustment
by grabbing the event and moving it all around.
I could do that here.
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So much better, so so so so much better.
Again, using your ears and your math skills
to pitch your vocal can make a huge, huge difference.
I know I really struggle with high notes,
so having the option to pitch those up
really makes a huge difference in my self-confidence
of what my vocals sounds like.
As you've might've guessed,
after we have made these pitch adjustments,
we're going to want to perform yet another bounce in place
which will be the last one,
and then we'll add our effects processors to that track.
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