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Effects and effect plug-ins 145
Note on timestretching: Timestretching cannot be automated, but can continue to
be used statically when using Elastic Audio.
Edit window
The pitch characteristic is shown in the editing window. To customize the pitch
correspondingly, the original pitch of the audio material must, of course, be known.
Fundamental to the functionality is therefore a preliminary pitch analysis of the
material. This is basically only for tonal, monophonic material like solo vocals, solo
instruments, and speech.
The analysis function starts automatically when the editor is opened. The analysis
requires more time with longer objects. After the analysis is complete, the objects are
split up into individual "slices" according to the recognized pitches. The medium
pitches of a slice determine its position in the graphic, independent of the set
progression of the pitch curve inside the slice. On the borders of the slice objects, two
handles are created on the pitch curve. These handles can be moved in order to
produce an increasing or decreasing pitch characteristic, but still keep the small
changes in the basic frequency (vibrato).
The “Tune” function for automatic pitch correction can be found beside the "Draw
pitch" function.
Axes labelling and legends
Y axis: Pitches in notes. The notes can be deselected on the keyboard. They won’t be
used in the automatic pitch correction or in quantized drawing. The corresponding