Does PT 7.4 Elastic Audio feature make VocAlign obselete?

[pmh3r]

I'm curious to know if 7.4 provides the same functionality as VocAlign Pro (time aligning vocals and harmonies to one another to make them super-tight). I've watched some of the videos on the Digi website but can't get a definitive answer....anyone?

--P

[Rammelt]

Hi,

as much I like the new Elastic Audio features I'd say no.
There's no way you could do, for example, ADR as easy and fast as with VocALign.
For a few tightening of vocal takes, yes, you wouldn't need VocALign, in fact Elastic Audio would work faster in most such scenarios since you need a Guide to work from in VocALign.
But on the whole, no, they don't even compete.
See them as two different tools for different tasks.

My 0.02$

/John

[mhmh]

It´s not the same functionality exactly, because Vocalign does it automatically, but yes, you can do
exact alignement with EA, probably with better sonic results.

I use both now, EA for the more "important" vocal tracks and Vocalign for the choir harmonies that stay in
the background anyway.
I will probably become a lot faster with EA once I´ve used it more, but still Vocalign is really comfortable.

Martin

[Noiz2]

Also since there doesn't seem to be any transition smoothing with EA it gets very tricky to make smooth changes unless they are extremely small ones inside a region. THe playback jumps at the marker point to whatever the new setting is. Vocalign may work the same way but it is using a lot more markers than I want to drop so it sounds smooth.

[GeneOuse]

I'd say at this point EA doesn't replace VocAlign yet. But now that EA es already implemented it's a few updates away from completely elmininating a need for VocAlign. Thats if Digi decides (and I hope so) it's one of important things to work on from their long to-do list. For syncing vocals it seems, besides transient analisys there's a need for gain and, possibly, pitch change analysis to get the perfect syncronisation on vocals. With EA technology already in place this could be an easy update. I wouldn't mind paying for an upgrade with a feature like this, especially after looking at the price of VocAlign Pro.

[GeneOuse]

I'd say at this point EA doesn't replace VocAlign yet. But now that EA es already implemented it's a few updates away from completely elmininating a need for VocAlign. Thats if Digi decides (and I hope so) it's one of important things to work on from their long to-do list. For syncing vocals it seems, besides transient analisys there's a need for gain and, possibly, pitch change analysis to get the perfect syncronisation on vocals. With EA technology already in place this could be an easy update. I wouldn't mind paying for an upgrade with a feature like this, especially after looking at the price of VocAlign Pro.

[John Pisciotta]

Not really Voc Align, with its ability to take snapshots of vocals is a bit more specific.