Half speed recording...

[Julien Apruzzese]

Hi everyone,
is there someone who found how to record back to the protools something playing at half speed playback ?
For instance, you have a track with a vocal already recorded on your protools. You play it at half speed and you like what you hear ( a vocal pitched down by an octave ). Is there a way to record this sound just with the protools itself ?
( of course, you can record it on a second medium and record it back on the protools... but maybe we can find a simplier way ? ).
Best regards,
Julien A.

[Craig F]

TCE

[TimNielsen]

I have not found a way to do this. And to note, playing back at half speed sounds WAY better than pitching -12 semitones. Why, I can't tell you. But it surely does. Smoother, less artifacting.

I kept a DAT around for years just to be able to just that, play out half speed to the DAT and load it back in. A pain, but I just couldn't get any better pitching than doing it that way.

Tim

[Carl Kolchak]

How you do it depends on whether you're talking about just having the vocal re-pitched, or the entire song.

If it's the entire song you need to bounce it to another track and then use the Audio Suite Time Shift Tool (for example) on that new region.

If it's just the vocal, go straight to work, as above, on the vocal region.

The key is to use Varispeed mode, not Time Stretch (compression / expansion).

[TCDet]

Hi. I do this via another recorder.
I use the transport to scratch forward n backwards, play variety of speeds (Fast and slow and Half speed)
scrubbing and so forth.

I record on the same computer into DP or Logic using analog PT’s outs and in's of a FW-MOTU 896. Import back to my session. Works well for those cool experimental moments.

[25ghosts]

set your external sync to Vari_Speed... then pull the percentage down... that will give you the effect

[mgoorevich]

Try audio hijack pro. It can record everything (audio) passing through computer processor.

[Carl Kolchak]

Try audio hijack pro. It can record everything (audio) passing through computer processor.

Does that work?

I use OpD2d all the time on my Windows laptop, but I always assumed it wouldn't work with DAE, though it works with the wave driver.

Whenever I need any scrubbing effects I run a dithered signal digitally into a hardware sampler, then either analog back in or copy the file over and src on import.

Looks like I might have been wasting my time

[RobMacki]

Why not just export the file as 2x SR then re import with out converting it and it will play 2x slower?

[Carl Kolchak]

Why not just export the file as 2x SR then re import with out converting it and it will play 2x slower?

If you're asking me,

because the Audio Suite Time Shift Tool in varispeed mode does the same job quicker.

And if you are trying to record the sound of scrubbing back and forth across a piece of audio, the only option is to record to another system or possibly use Audio Hijack / OpD2d.