Please give me some advice. how can I randomize an audio track? I need this to create a double vocal.
In Cubase Pro you could use the stock plugin “Cloner”. It comes with several presets.
Thanks. I’ll try this
Hi,
I’m not sure what your are looking for. The words “double” and “randomizing” are a bit contradictory to me: Do you want to thicken up your lead vocal by adding a double? Or do you want to add backing vocals which are different from the lead vocal with regard to pitch and melodic movement?
In my experience, trying to fake a vocal double is never really satisfactory. In a pop context, I will sometimes copy a vocal from one chorus “underneath” another, while messing with variAudio and audioWarp to taste. That or find another take if you have it. Otherwise Cloner from Steinberg or Doubler from Waves, can be used to “thicken” up a vocal (not really the same as a double though).
Copy the audio.
Cut it into short events, maybe five or ten seconds each.
Go to the first event and stretch it, just a tiny bit.
Got to the second event, shrink it by the same tiny, tiny amount.
Rinse and repeat.
When you’re done, select them all and create an audio part. Detune it by a few cents, no more than 5. Detune the original, in the opposite direction, by the same amount.
Put both tracks through a saturation/exciter plugin with different settings and gently saturate/excite.
Long winded but has worked for me. (Using vocal sample packs.)
Waves ADT works really well if you’re looking for that classic Abbey Road sound.
@popov_sv67 Maybe it’s best you upload a link to a song and point at the part where we can hear what you are looking for. There are literally endless possibilities out there to deal with vocals.
Yes, it’s cool.
Which got invented because John Lennon was always complaining about needing to record his vocals twice to do real double tracking. So they ‘automated’ it.
if I understood the history of the plug-in correctly, the voice duplication device was mechanical. In fact, it was a magnetic tape with several heads.
He was so darn good at doing it, too (the actual double tracking)
There is an easy trick when it works it will sound great. Duplicate the track, quantize the second track using low Q like 1/4, basically it will create warp markers then warp audio to nearest quantize spot, when you hear some artifacts like extreme warps you can fix it on the spot with Free Warp. Some slight pitch shift afterwards will help too.