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Flatten the pitch of a long segment in 2 keystrokes and 1 click

Posted: 04 Aug 2016
by WongoTheSane
I recently worked on something which required a monotonous, flat-pitched, GlaDOS-type of voice talking for a while. I had a 2:20mn vocal recording of a person kind of rapping, which I pitch-edited. At first, I tried to manually move each note to the correct pitch, but it took an awful lot of time because there were quite a number of notes in the file:
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I suddenly remembered I could "glue" two notes together by selecting the second one and pressing Backspace. And thought: what if I select everything before hitting Backspace?

So I did, and it works. Select-All:
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Backspace (NOT Delete! Backspace is the one above Return):
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Re: Flatten the pitch of a long segment in 2 keystrokes and 1 clic

Posted: 04 Aug 2016
by WongoTheSane
...and finally, click-drag downwards on the white handle:
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And that's it, flattened in 3 seconds. Up the formant three steps and you've got GlaDOS!

Re: Flatten the pitch of a long segment in 2 keystrokes and 1 click

Posted: 05 Aug 2016
by Rene Disco
Looks interesting. Please let us hear them. I would like to know how you are using Reason 9 and what you mean by flattening pitch. Thanks

Re: Flatten the pitch of a long segment in 2 keystrokes and 1 click

Posted: 06 Aug 2016
by WongoTheSane
GlaDLY :) Here is the original recording:

https://soundcloud.com/wongothesane/ori ... ng/s-twX1J

Here it is after I flattened the pitch as described above:

https://soundcloud.com/wongothesane/flattened/s-yLjKq

And finally here it is after I repitched some segments to give it the GlaDOS treatment:

https://soundcloud.com/wongothesane/repitched/s-g64rQ

(for those who don't know GlaDOS: it's a robotic character from a series of games called "Portal").

Re: Flatten the pitch of a long segment in 2 keystrokes and 1 click

Posted: 08 Aug 2016
by Rene Disco
That"s cool. Kinda like small wonder's monotone voice. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Flatten the pitch of a long segment in 2 keystrokes and 1 click

Posted: 09 Aug 2016
by 8cros
The last two links do not work:
"We can’t find that page." :puf_unhappy:

Re: Flatten the pitch of a long segment in 2 keystrokes and 1 click

Posted: 09 Aug 2016
by WongoTheSane
8cros wrote:The last two links do not work:
"We can’t find that page." :puf_unhappy:
I just realized you can still have URLs work as links by using the "URL" tag at the top of the big editor... So here they are in a more convenient format:

https://soundcloud.com/wongothesane/ori ... ng/s-twX1J
https://soundcloud.com/wongothesane/flattened/s-yLjKq
https://soundcloud.com/wongothesane/repitched/s-g64rQ

Re: Flatten the pitch of a long segment in 2 keystrokes and 1 click

Posted: 09 Aug 2016
by 8cros
Cool! Thank you. All perfectly. :)