DaveC
March 2nd, 2007, 08:28 PM
This came up on another thread, but it's an interesting subject (to me anyway).
With 2" - back in the day (for me) I used to love varispeed stuff. Changing the playback speed to pitching it up or down a bit with guitars, pitching up and down more for big choral BVs, it was great.
For people new to the technique - maybe you have heard the chipmunk voice effect where a voice is played back at double speed. Not only is the pitch of the voice raised, but the timbre (tone, character) is also changed. That's the basic magic of varispeed, but not usually done to such extremes. Record a voice. Then double it with the same singer, but with the tape playing (say) slower. The singer has to sing in tune with the slowed down track - ie at a lower pitch than before. Then, when you platback at normal speed, you have 2 voices singing in time and in tune with each other, but they have slightly different timbres and qualities.
Can this be done with DAWs, Alishad HD and Alishad LE?
A couple of guys say the HD Sync IO can do it. How flexible is it? Can I do the same as I could with tape - run a (say) 44.1KHz session and send clock speeds infinitely (umm you know) +/-10%? +/- 100%?
Is there a cheaper thing that will do this for HD? Can the same be done with LE and an 002 - sending variable clock speeds through light pipe or SPDIF?
And finally - does it acheive a similar effect to doing varispeed with tape? Can't see why not, but sometimes you just don't know till you try it.
I miss varispeed since moving on to DAWs - if the Sync IO will do it, so be it. If there is a cheaper way - even better!
With 2" - back in the day (for me) I used to love varispeed stuff. Changing the playback speed to pitching it up or down a bit with guitars, pitching up and down more for big choral BVs, it was great.
For people new to the technique - maybe you have heard the chipmunk voice effect where a voice is played back at double speed. Not only is the pitch of the voice raised, but the timbre (tone, character) is also changed. That's the basic magic of varispeed, but not usually done to such extremes. Record a voice. Then double it with the same singer, but with the tape playing (say) slower. The singer has to sing in tune with the slowed down track - ie at a lower pitch than before. Then, when you platback at normal speed, you have 2 voices singing in time and in tune with each other, but they have slightly different timbres and qualities.
Can this be done with DAWs, Alishad HD and Alishad LE?
A couple of guys say the HD Sync IO can do it. How flexible is it? Can I do the same as I could with tape - run a (say) 44.1KHz session and send clock speeds infinitely (umm you know) +/-10%? +/- 100%?
Is there a cheaper thing that will do this for HD? Can the same be done with LE and an 002 - sending variable clock speeds through light pipe or SPDIF?
And finally - does it acheive a similar effect to doing varispeed with tape? Can't see why not, but sometimes you just don't know till you try it.
I miss varispeed since moving on to DAWs - if the Sync IO will do it, so be it. If there is a cheaper way - even better!