Fortunately, your initial vocal take doesn’t always have to be perfect in order to get a professional sounding end result. There are many different types of tools you can use to fix problem areas in vocal recordings, better yet, they couldn’t be simpler to use!
Launch Ableton Live and go to: Windows:Options > Preferences. Mac:Live > Settings. SelectPlug-instab and ToggleUse VST3 Plug-In System Foldersoff and on again. Hold down the [Alt/Option] key and clickRescan. Once the rescan is done, create a new session with asupported sample rate, ad...
Groups and busses both work for routing audio in Ableton Live. Selecting a group track from the export dialog will bounce each track in the group together as a stereo stem. Some DAWs make bouncing stems as simple as clicking a bus and selecting a range of the song to export. Make sure...
Once you’ve done this, you’ll want to add in some sort of drum sampler. In Ableton Live, I’m going to use the Drum Rack, which allows you to add in different drum samples. After your sampler is ready to go, you’ll want to find a good kick, snare, and hi-hat to load up...
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The advent of time stretching and pitch shifting marked a major change in music production. With analog media like vinyl ortape, speeding up or slowing down a sample always resulted in a change of pitch. Of course, that sped-up vocal sound was used heavily and inspired entire genres of mus...
For PC, Ableton Live and Reaper are great options. The Scarlett 2i2 bundle comes with a lite version of Ableton that may be enough for your needs. Preparing your audio files for sale Once you’ve got your audio recordings, there are a couple of more steps you’ll need to take to get...
approaches to shaping vocals to a new groove. Ableton provides a really easy way to extract a drum groove from a MIDI file and literally drag/drop it onto the vocal audio file for it to match in timing and rhythm. If you don’t use Ableton, feel free to get your hands dirty in ...
it’s not actually the track. I’m using pitch-shifting and Melodyne for that. Melodyne has this polyphonic mode, where you can record in the sample, and then it’ll be broken up into the bass, the mids, the highs. So you can essentially extract the vocal from that. I love how the...
Today’s hardware samplers can still loop samples and patterns in the same manner. Most samplers allow you to record your source material, set the start and end points and loop the sample seamlessly. Many producers still swear by the unique workflow of the Akai MPC, but modern samplers like...