Can anybody think of a good way to do this ...?

[chico.co.uk]

Trying to think of an easy way to do this, not coming up with anything great ... any ideas?

Basically I used to record on cassette 4-tracks, years ago. One of the features was a pitch/tempo slider, which let you slow down, or speed up the overall playback, which would repitch the audio up or down, because it was literally slowing the tape down, or speeding it up.

This was useful, for one specific effect. I would slow the tape down a little, record some vocals, then speed it up again, which would pitch the vocals up about a semi-tone, and change the general tone of the vocal.

I'd like to use this trick again, but I'm struggling to come up with a good way to slow the entire edit down, and pitch the whole thing down, to record the vocal.

Any ideas?

[chico.co.uk]

Oh, hang on ... maybe i can do it with edit clips .... lets try that

[jabe]

I'm wondering how much of the backing is required to guide the vocals. You could mix some of it down to a single .wav file so your vocalists knows where to be, then do a temporary project with the backing track stretched, then record the vocals on another track, then render the vocals, then squash the vocals audio into a track on your original project.

[chico.co.uk]

Edit clips look like they'll work pretty well, assuming I can pitch it back up again (no time stretching algo used) accurately enough to get the vocal in time. Think this will work, for the handful of times I want to try this trick...