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Snow

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Stretching a vocal
« on: January 29, 2016, 11:48:53 am »
When I have a vocal, the last word of the vocal is Ohhh, but that Ohh is only 3 seconds. Is there any way to stretch that to oooooooooooooooh for like 4 bars? or anything else. If I just stretch it (in FL) it won't work because it simply gets pitched down..
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Re: Stretching a vocal
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2016, 04:49:59 pm »
Have you tried the other timestretching algorithms within FL? e3 Generic and Auto don't have any pitch-warping, as far as I know. You might get some artifacts, but you could try it.

Alternately, you can either put it in a sampler with some looping enabled or chop up the sample and duplicate out parts of it and crossfade it so it sounds like one long "Ooh". If looping it cuts off before the last consonants, you can just record out the sampler and put in the end of the original sample manually.
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Re: Stretching a vocal
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2016, 05:59:57 pm »
Like Mussar said there are definitely ways to stretch it without pitching it down, some of the default FL sampler options can do that.

However I'd recommend using something like Edison to find a good part in the middle to loop so that you still get the intact beginning and end. Copy and paste it a bunch or just set it as loop points so holding the note will loop those bits.
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Re: Stretching a vocal
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2016, 06:25:43 pm »
Thanks, will try that out ;)
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Re: Stretching a vocal
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2016, 08:28:26 pm »
I don't use FL but in Ableton, if you find a part of the sample that remains pretty static and then just copy and paste it for as long as you want, and then use the volume crossfader between clips (right click then choose "show crossfades") and move the automation dots so it looks like a wavy "X" between each clip, I think that should make it sound like one long "oh" without the breaks being obvious.. Maybe you can do the equivalent in FL?

This is basically doing what Mussar said but without using a sampler
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Re: Stretching a vocal
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2016, 07:52:31 pm »
Quote from: Mussar on January 29, 2016, 04:49:59 pm
Have you tried the other timestretching algorithms within FL? e3 Generic and Auto don't have any pitch-warping, as far as I know. You might get some artifacts, but you could try it.

This is what I do. You WILL get some artifacts, but I usually counter this by using Gross Beat, and creating a gating effect.
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