Hey guys I am trying to get that pitched down vocal affect used in a lot of house but when I warp an acapella in Ableton and use the complex setting, then transpose down, I seem to get an alien sounding affect.

I had forgotten about this issue until I heard a new Aoki track that used a Brandy acapella I had used before. After re-opening my project file I tried to get a similar affect as Aoki but no luck

Mashup I did a while back (would definitely benefit from the deeper vocal affect):
https://youtu.be/6OhmYgLBhbU?t=76


New Aoki track with same acapella:
https://youtu.be/iZxgOsmi1FM?t=23

So basically if I take my version of the acapella and transpose down it sound very alien/munchkin land style.  Whereas somehow Aoki gets a rich deeper vocal.

Thanks for any help.

Ahhh I think I see what you mean, so by shifting the pitch down, I'm also shifting the formants down.  I once saw a trick by Qulinez I believe where, in order to b able to have his kick play different notes, he would pitch the bass of his kicks down but leave a second track with just the "knock" playing at the original pitch, and a fade to cut off the bass, so that everything was at the same volume. 

Still, that method required each kick to be faded (easy to do as you just do the first one and copy/paste for the rest) but vocals could be trickier.

I'm looking at some vocal processing VSTs and Waves VX1 seems to be popular (and not a bad price).  Would that achieve what I'm going for ya think?

Thanks again!

Even with using Complex or Complex pro?