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Any idea what he uses for those pitched up vocals? Ableton's transpose feature aint cuttin it, his just sound so not distorted at all. Then again Burial use or not, any ideas for good pitch shifter VST's or whatever, would be great. Taking good reverb suggestions as well, or how bout just good VST's?

edit: maybe plugin's the right word...

I have read he uses sound forge.

3za wrote:I have read he uses sound forge.

Yeah me too, but his shit sounds like its hand-bent, or at least bending, and theres nothing in soundforge that bends, just stuff that shifts...

Ive read alot of things about Burial.

Basic A wrote:

3za wrote:I have read he uses sound forge.

Yeah me too, but his shit sounds like its hand-bent, or at least bending, and theres nothing in soundforge that bends, just stuff that shifts...

Ive read alot of things about Burial.

Ah, sampler+keyboard pitch bend? Can't believe I never thought of that.

Cut every word of the sample up.
Put each word into a different sample.
In the piano roll for each, fiddle the notes.

Basic A wrote:

3za wrote:I have read he uses sound forge.

Yeah me too, but his shit sounds like its hand-bent, or at least bending, and theres nothing in soundforge that bends, just stuff that shifts...

Ive read alot of things about Burial.

Pitch Bend?

Basic A wrote:

3za wrote:I have read he uses sound forge.

Yeah me too, but his shit sounds like its hand-bent, or at least bending, and theres nothing in soundforge that bends, just stuff that shifts...

Ive read alot of things about Burial.

I also read where he states he used Soundforge. I have my doubts because the Reverb in SF sounds totally different to the verb he uses and so does the pitch changes but it could be because I dont know how to do it right.

Adobe Audition and also SoundForge has a nice pitch benders

blazinaidan wrote:Any idea what he uses for those pitched up vocals? Ableton's transpose feature aint cuttin it, his just sound so not distorted at all. Then again Burial use or not, any ideas for good pitch shifter VST's or whatever, would be great. Taking good reverb suggestions as well, or how bout just good VST's?

edit: maybe plugin's the right word...

get to know the warping function! it fullfills wonders! believe me!

also a method:
click on the title bar of your envelope editor near the bottom left of abletons view - session or arrangement
then click on transpose button within that box and it will bring up the transpose editor within the clip waveform - that's where you change the pitch of your audio file

i have read his interviews are full of shit like rdj ones and he uses basic plugins and features in whatever daw he uses

Burial just uses paul stretch and messes with eclectic drum sounds and twisting vocals....The idea behind his music is very simple its just he does it well.

I'd probably say for the vocals he just edited the audio manually since he uses soundforge.

I cannot really tell what pitch changes there are. Does he change pitch on the vocals as they are spoken then? a lot of his stuff is time stretched, doesn't that cause pitch changes or can do?

try bouncing as a 64kbps mp3 and then pitch shifting. seriously...

sully.harmitage wrote:try bouncing as a 64kbps mp3 and then pitch shifting. seriously...

It sounds alot like the pitch shifter in audacity

James Blake is well able to achieve the same effect quite well also on the Klaverierwerk EP

ReaPitch

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vulvavibration wrote:

sully.harmitage wrote:try bouncing as a 64kbps mp3 and then pitch shifting. seriously...

What difference does that make? I'm too far away from the production pc to try.

gnome wrote:

vulvavibration wrote:

sully.harmitage wrote:try bouncing as a 64kbps mp3 and then pitch shifting. seriously...

What difference does that make? I'm too far away from the production pc to try.

It goes all slushy and ghostly, especially if there's reverb / delay already on the vocal.
not necessarily what the OP wanted but it sounds great imo.
and definitely burial-ish, i don't think he's very precious about audio source quality...