Question about Elastic Audio

[chrisdee]

I hear elastic pitch in PT8 will be able to pitch audio regions up and down without creating new files. Does this apply to elastic audio also ?

Currently EA creates new files every time I change tempo. I would be nice if it manipulated the original wavfile instead of creating new files with every tempo change.

[princeplanet]

Originally Posted by elicious

hey pp,
not to belabor the point, but just making sure...
did you consolidate your regions first? (b4 ea)
e

Thanks, but yeah, we know about that trap.

[princeplanet]

Originally Posted by DigiTechSupt

Could we possibly get a session from you with the example of what you're hearing?

What we need is a session in the state that you're using it in - including all the EA tweaks you've done. You should include 'before' and 'after' track versions.

The reason we want this is to see if there's something you're doing that may be causing the problem, or if there really is a phase issue. We had another customer complaining about problems with EA and we were able to solve it once we saw their session.

Sure, give me few days and we'll try to replicate a scenario. So how do you want us to send you the session?

[DigiTechSupt]

Originally Posted by princeplanet

Sure, give me few days and we'll try to replicate a scenario. So how do you want us to send you the session?

YouSendIt or WhaleMail should do it - if not, let us know and we can get you DigiDelivery login info.

[RyanC]

are you grouping all your drums?

I think this is the key in my experience, otherwise it want to move each hit, and will not preserve the phase relationship overall. . .

Maybe you already did that I just thought I would check.

Are you a all mic pre's must be the same kindof guy? Just curious.

[princeplanet]

we only mark kick and snare hits, all drums are moved according to those. Phase should not change.
I use various pres within a drumkit, not that it makes a difference to EA......

[PaulV]

Let's see, maybe some clarification: So the new pitch shifting in PT 8 is a part of the Elastic Audio functionality (you adjust it in the Elastic Properties window on EA-enabled tracks), and is performed by the Elastic Audio plugin in conjunction with time compression/expansion (it's not a separate processing step). If you're using Realtime Processing with the Elastic Audio plugin, then neither pitch shifting nor time stretching generate new files for the affected regions. However, fades in PT are always rendered to separate files, so modifying the TCE or pitch on a region will cause any attached fades to recalculate. Chrisdee, perhaps this is what you're seeing when you change the tempo. If you don't have fades on your tick based EA tracks, then no files are generated when you change the tempo.

If you're using Rendered Processing on your EA tracks, only then does it generate files for each region when you change the pitch or TCE. And of course, you should only use Rendered Processing if you really need to, or if you want to use X-Form.

I hope that helps.