Guest post by Rys Up Audio
A vocal chain should survive a session move because its decisions are clear, not because every DAW uses the same plugins. The transferable part is the order of operations, the reason for each stage, and the reference you use to judge the result.
I had a badly recorded vocal – too close to the mike, too many peaks at various frequencies (450 Hz, 13 kHz, 17 kHz), big low end, too much presence at 2.4 kHz. I tried everything – compressors, EQ – but ended up with a do-nothing pitch shift.
Here is what to expect from the next major upgrade of Orinj – to version 10.
Below are several mistakes to avoid when arranging songs.
First, a back story: Years ago, I sat with a session drummer and went over one of my early songs. His first words were: "This riff is great, but I am already bored." I was a beginner and the whole exercise was an eye-opener. It was the first time I thought about arrangement seriously and understood that three chords and a riff do not make a song.
I am now working on one of my first songs – an even earlier one. It has issues.
In the first post, we used the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) to compute the magnitudes and phases in a signal. In the second post, we computed pitch shifted magnitudes and phases. In this last post, we will construct the new, pitch shifted signal.
In the previous post, we used the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) to compute the magnitudes and phases in a signal. In this post, we will pitch shift these magnitudes and phases. In the next post, we will construct a new, pitch shifted signal.
We will deconstruct a pitch shift, since it is one of the more complex processing of digital audio. We will use the Fourier transform to detect frequencies. We will then pitch shift these frequencies and construct the pitch shifted signal.
I am hosting VSTs. I built a DAW. I want that DAW to handle VST gracefully. And I am learning – a bunch…
I am a music lover who studied math and started coding by chance. My work gravitated naturally towards digital signals and then audio DSP. I consider myself well versed in DSP, as I have designed, used, and sold DSP audio effects and guitar amp models. But I am not an engineer. I meet with some engineers who design tube guitar amps and, honestly, I have no idea what they are talking about. We have no common language.
Orinj version 8.0.0 is a beta release with several important changes and numerous other improvements.
Auxiliary channels in Orinj version 8 are session tracks. They are shown as tracks in the session and allow all the controls that other tracks use, including effects and envelopes (automation).
