When set to 0, formants areĪlso, loving how it ignores consonant sounds. Â€¢ Formant Shift: Determines how formants adjust to pitch shifts.

Â€¢ Formant Track: Determines the interval at which formants are tracked along the signal. However I'm confused by what the manual says : Setting formant track to 0 seems to only shift the pitch of the note and not the formant. Can anyone shed a little more light on what those parameters do? Formant shift appears to be a global formant shift while I think that formant track has to do with how much the formant shifts when you change the pitch of a note. I can't seem to find much about this in the manual. 1 is formant track and the other is formant shift. I think melodyne is automatically set up to only shift the pitch and not the formant where as in Logic X, I'm seeing 2 parameters in the track / region inspector. I think what makes pitch shifting vocals sound most natural is when you can shift the pitch but not the formant. Logic Pro X 108 - Flexing Vocals: Time and Pitch To learn more about Flex Pitch, check out this tutorial: Thanks to Logic Pro X's new Flex Pitch, I don't believe that is going to be a problem anymore. I don't know how many times I ended up with a vocal on my percussion stems because of this. In these programs, you had to first write the audio in real time into the plug-in, where the content stayed, even when a region in the Main Window was deleted. The fact that all of these techniques are extremely intuitive gives users a big leg up over programs like Melodyne and Auto-Tune. Copying and pasting several regions of Flex Pitch data will help create iterations of melodies and motifs that quickly spin into insanely creative territory. It can be used to greatly change the timbre and emotional feel of not only a vocal, but any other instrument that is put under its influence. Interesting and weird.įlex Pitch is not just a tool for out of tune singers. Artists to listen to for inspiration are Grimes, Fever Ray, and CocoRosie. Radically alter formants to give a vocal an extremely freaky vibe.Create new notes in the Audio Track Editor that allow you to create alternate melodies.MIDI can be generated from this powerful tool and reused in other areas. There are also other features built into Flex Pitch that take advantage of the detected note data.Another good creative use of Flex Pitch is to take instruments that have no (or dubious) pitch, and forcing them into line.

A nice place to start is copying regions with Flex Pitch data and then tuning them up or down to create backing vocals.

Creatively, what can we do besides tuning vocals? So we know the basic anatomy of Flex Pitch. Hot Zones provide convenient and quick access to essential functions when using Flex Pitch.

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