Acca's and Keys...
I have an accapella that is in B flat minor. I want to use this in a track that is written in e minor.
Now when I pitch shift the acca by, I think its 6 or 7 semitones to get to e minor, it sounds either like barry white or barry white on helium! So does this simply rule out the use of this acca on this particular song? Or is there any way of merging the two better than I am doing?
Re: Acca's and Keys...
There are a couple of different solutions for this:Originally Posted by Fuzquia
#1: Use a different track, or change the key of your track. That would be easiest, but if a lot of stuff is already recorded maybe not.
#2: Use a formant-shifting sampler (like the Roland Variphrase sampler) that can change the key without shifting the formant. I don't know how well these work, never having used one, but that's literally what they're for.
#3: Change the key of the a cappella note-by-note to fit in with the track. This will be more of a "creative" kind of remix, though. Like, maybe if the melody went Bb-F-Db... Db-C-Bb, and the chords were E minor and C, you could change it to be B-F#-D... D-C-Bb, using the vocal to add extended tones to the chords to make it a Em7 and a C9.
With any kind of pitch shifting of an a capella, it's always a good idea to add some kind of "obvious" timbral thing (like a phaser or some distortion) to make it clear that the vocal has been processed. The listener's ear won't object to a little formant shifting or artifacting if it's obvious that it's been treated in a number of ways.
Melodyne is probably the best thing I can think of for something like this.
It's expensive but you could do what I did, download the demo, use it and record the output to a wave editor ( because rendering is disabled )
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