MOTM

I just finished a project that involved a whole lot of backup singing.
Although the 3 singers were extremely talented and professional, there
were a lot of parts at the low end of their ranges.

The group paying for the project wanted perfection if possible and
wanted to avoid using AutoTune.  The project was done in ProTools.  On
one particular backup part we did 46 punch-ins.  There were a lot of
edits.  We also tried to align parts and note endings as much as
possible without using VocAlign.

We did end up using AutoTune on selected notes.  There was also a lot of
fader automation involved in trying to make the three parts exactly
equal in dynamics.

Vocaloid would have been faster, I'm sure, despite all the tweaking.
I'm also sure it would not have sounded nearly as good.

(We also used a real horn section, but we did use sampled strings, as
they wanted a full string section sound.  Strings were recorded as
individual lines rather than playing chords.  Maybe I should have tried
to get Elhardt.)

This was a major project.  Most of my clients cannot afford to spend 15
or 20 billable hours per song.  I definitely will be evaluating vocaloid
in the future.

Paul Haneberg

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Gibbons [mailto:scott.gibbons@...] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 2:58 PM
To: motm@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [motm] Re: [OT] Mind-boggling Yamaha software

> Having said all that, I'll probably still end up buying the thing.
> It's far cheaper than hiring a bunch of backup singers.  Most of my

Is this cheaper? It seems like it takes a LOT of tweaking (read:
billable
hours) to get anything realistic, while good singers could come in and
nail
it in a couple takes. No?

best,
- Scott
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