AA3 Week 5 - Production "Outside The Square" Part II

For this week's exercise I used a vocal sample, a harp sample and a piano sample. The vocal sample is of a recording I did a few weeks ago recording my younger cousins singing. The sample I used for this exercise is of the singer who I think sounded the best. For an untrained 14 year old, I think it's pretty good.

I applied Auto-Tune only as a correction tool in this example fixing the notes that were slightly out of tune. You can hear that Auto-Tune isn't always 100% accurate. It has jumped to notes that I think are not quite right. If I spent more time on the setting maybe this could've been resolved.

The harp sample was messed around by using a weird scale. I think I used the Greek Diatonic Scale. This resulted in the notes jumping all over the place.

The piano sample was messed around by bypassing many of the notes and then drawing in some pitch changes. I couldn't get rid of the crackling sound. I'm not sure why that comes through when you edit the pitch by hand. Below is a screenshot of the piano editing. Click on the image for a hi-res version.




AUDIO
Vocal Original Sample [468KB]
Vocal Sample w/Autotune [468KB]
Harp Original Sample [268KB]
Harp Sample w/Autotune [268KB]
Piano Original Sample [404KB]
Piano Sample w/Autotune [404KB]


[1] David Grice. "Audio Arts: Semester 1 - Week 5 - Antares Auto-Tune". Lecture presented at the Electronic Music Unit, University of Adelaide, South Australia, 1st April 2008

[2] White, Paul 1999, AUTOMAGIC - Alternate Uses for Auto-Tune, 21/2, 2007,