Madonna's Hollywood pitch change

[sonicfire]

tc helicon?

[eduardo_b]

Ehh, are we talking about changing the formants?

I have not heard that specific part, though.

Applications like Melodyne makes such things with ease.

Cheers Bob

I have the clip if you give me a place to send it to. Or I suppose I could post it on one of the file download sites. Then maybe you could tell me (and others) how it was done.

Yeah, it would be cool if you PM:ed me a link.

Cheers Bob

It's at http://storeandserve.com/download/59085 ... e.wav.html

[Jason Brian Merrill]

very cool pitch shifting...

horrible music.

I liked ray of light too tho.

[eduardo_b]

very cool pitch shifting...

horrible music.

I liked ray of light too tho.

Well, I'm only guessing it's pitch change. Someone suggested morphing. Maybe it's a combination.

[sirocco]

The producer of that album - Stuart Price (alias 'Jacques le Cont') is a shithot techy. He's used that trick on some of his Les Rhytmes Digitales work, and has also used a variant in his other side project - Zoot Woman. (Who are ace BTW)

Howzit done though? Dunno.

i love his work as thin white duke the most

[deastman]

I saw a clip of her pulling that effect off live at a Tower Records appearance in Los Angeles. My assumption was that she used TC Helicons VoicePrism Plus.

[Manc Chris]

The producer of that album - Stuart Price (alias 'Jacques le Cont') is a shithot techy. He's used that trick on some of his Les Rhytmes Digitales work, and has also used a variant in his other side project - Zoot Woman. (Who are ace BTW)

Howzit done though? Dunno.

i love his work as thin white duke the most

Yeah, this guy has his fingers in a LOT of pies. BT? BT???

[AndrewSimon]

It's a gradual pitch shift with locked tempo.
You can easily do it with Melodyne and that's probably what they used too.
Note that it's speech not singing.
On singing it wouldn't sound so good

[oxbee]

I just hate this kind of demonstrative use of technology in music. It's far more impressing when it's a subtle use I think.

[Manc Chris]

I just hate this kind of demonstrative use of technology in music. It's far more impressing when it's a subtle use I think.

I think that the first time it's done (on a commercial scale) then, no probs in it being conspicuous. 'State of the art' etc.

It's just when everyone else jumps on the bandwagon and does the same thing (ala the Cher effect) that it becomes damned annoying.

[yemski]

I just hate this kind of demonstrative use of technology in music. It's far more impressing when it's a subtle use I think.

Most popular music is defined by the demonstrative use of technology in one way of the other. Hendrix's
use of guitar pedals was at the time pretty outrageous and original, but as the time passed it soon became part of the lexicon of standard guitar playing. What really matters is not the subtlety/unsubtlety of the techniques used,but whether they contribute to the emotional impact of the music. If they don't serve the music in this way, then I would agree they are mere gimmicks.

Though not a great fan of the tune I think the Maddona tune "Hollywood" demonstrates this overt use of technology well. The song conveys in an albeit simplistic way, the vacousness of celebrity culture and the hollowness and alienation contained there in, so the use of a very artificial sounding voice is appropriate in this context.

[Jason Brian Merrill]

I just hate this kind of demonstrative use of technology in music. It's far more impressing when it's a subtle use I think.

in that case, I probably shouldnt use distortion on my guitar, cause its not very subtle, that is.. unless I want to just put a little on, like chris isaak's "graduation day"...

nah, sorry... do whatever sounds good

[BobYordan]

Sound like the formant changes to me.

This might possible to do in Melodyne.

Depends of if the formant changes just between the
notes or also on the notes. Might be possible to split a note in Melodyne and make a formant change
of the 2 halfs???

Well I listened to it one more time and it could be that the format changes occures between the phrases.
The are many phrases that occures rapidly so that gives the impression of a flow. Analog with looking at a movie, that are really frames on the film.

I dont know what tool they used on the Madonna song, though? Might be some kind of auto formant changer in
a hw effect world??

Cheers Bob

[Stupid American Pig]

I bet I could get similar results with v-vocal..

[blortblort]

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