turn animated spoken word into flat monotone

[fairlyclose]

You are welcome! The fact is that "making flat" an animated speech involves two components: making the intonation (pitch) flatter, and making the rhythms more regular (with an even, regular spacing between the syllables). The first problem is solved very well with Trax, but I have no idea on how to solve the second (assuming that you are interested in doing also that second part of the process).

pitch is enough for the current project - and looks like that is now solved.

[e-crooner]

Not sure really where one puts this question but I want to take a recording of an animated spoken work radio announcer's voice and make it flat, monotone and uninteresting. I have tried a number of fx but they have fairly terrible artefacts. eg Pitchmap from Zynnaptiq fails on this task whereas it is fine on instruments like violins. Melodyne is a bit artificial sounding tho better than Pitchmap. I haven't figured out a fast workflow for meldoyne yet tho. Anything else that might do? Maybe Autotune, but that is outside my budget and I am not even sure that could what I want any easier or better than Melodyne.

Run the audio through the Pope plugin

[Notheorem729]

Trax is certainly the winner so far - cleaner more natural solution than the other options I have tried. thanks for that suggestion

You're welcome. I just happened to test trax not long ago so it immediately came to mind when I saw your post. I didn't test it for what you are trying to do but everything else seemed pretty good. Good luck on your search.

[fairlyclose]

Trax is certainly the winner so far - cleaner more natural solution than the other options I have tried. thanks for that suggestion

You're welcome. I just happened to test trax not long ago so it immediately came to mind when I saw your post. I didn't test it for what you are trying to do but everything else seemed pretty good. Good luck on your search.

thanks - nce you set it to the type of voice it is just one dial all the way to the left - pretty simple. You can tweak to try and optimise but the auto setting gets you 99% of the way there. Different voice types need different settings but that is about it.
Melodyne is also pretty good but not as good - although I have yet to fiddle with settings to refine the result. Also Zynaptiq Morph with a single note sidechain input is not bad, similar to Izotope Vocal Synth. But Trax is the most natural
$400 is a lot though so with a bit of luck they will have a great Black Friday sale

[Local Man]

Try Soundtoys Little AlterBoy on Robot mode with the pitch all the way down.

That was my first thought but I don't think it will sound very natural.

I think this may be a somewhat impossible task.
One thing to try though would be a few of these tools with mild settings in series. So the zynaptiq into melodyne into maybe little alter boy or something. But all of them just doing a little bit of work.
Lots of experimenting that can be done in the vein.

[Halonmusic]

Image Line Newtone perhaps?

https://splice.com/plugins/25475-newton ... image-line

[funky lime]

Im gonna go ahead and be that asshole and suggest using a microphone and the old vocal cords. Way more natural results, way faster and easier, and arguably cheaper than many software solutions. It seems dead simple compared to some of the convoluted-with-meh-results suggestions. But clearly I'm missing something here...

[fairlyclose]

Im gonna go ahead and be that asshole and suggest using a microphone and the old vocal cords. Way more natural results, way faster and easier, and arguably cheaper than many software solutions. It seems dead simple compared to some of the convoluted-with-meh-results suggestions. But clearly I'm missing something here...

you are missing the bit where I want to "a recording of an animated spoken word radio announcer's voice" and thinking instead i want any old flat monotone voice

[fairlyclose]

Image Line Newtone perhaps?

https://splice.com/plugins/25475-newton ... image-line

should be similar to Melodyne I think - which is "okay" but not "okay enough" for this job - great for other stuff, but Trax is much better here

[Halonmusic]

Image Line Newtone perhaps?

https://splice.com/plugins/25475-newton ... image-line

should be similar to Melodyne I think - which is "okay" but not "okay enough" for this job - great for other stuff, but Trax is much better here

Alright. You set with Trax then?

[fairlyclose]

Image Line Newtone perhaps?

https://splice.com/plugins/25475-newton ... image-line

should be similar to Melodyne I think - which is "okay" but not "okay enough" for this job - great for other stuff, but Trax is much better here

Alright. You set with Trax then?

Yep, still exploring the demo and hoping they have a 99% BF sale

[Touch The Universe]

imagine line new tone is the easiest way. Make all words on the same monotone key, remove all pitch modulation fine tune and center, use the variation and center buttons.

[Halonmusic]

Image Line Newtone perhaps?

https://splice.com/plugins/25475-newton ... image-line

should be similar to Melodyne I think - which is "okay" but not "okay enough" for this job - great for other stuff, but Trax is much better here

Alright. You set with Trax then?

Yep, still exploring the demo and hoping they have a 99% BF sale

imagine line new tone is the easiest way. Make all words on the same monotone key, remove all pitch modulation fine tune and center, use the variation and center buttons.

Yes i've done that quite a bit myself

[Touch The Universe]

Can you show a demo of trax vs newtone?

[fairlyclose]

imagine line new tone is the easiest way. Make all words on the same monotone key, remove all pitch modulation fine tune and center, use the variation and center buttons.

i have not used newtone - is it better than Melodyne as I can do exactly that in Melodyne