This helped so much. I've been trying to mix this song for about a week now. Something about it just sounded off. I used this on the rhythm section and I could see that both takes were slightly out of sync. It wasn't by much but I could definitely hear it. I used this to tighten up all of my guitar tracks and now my song sounds amazing. I am so glad I came across this video. Thank Graham!!
Yesterday I started using elastic audio in PT and it's freaking awsome. It has helped me a lot with my friend drum recording, which was out of beat of course haha.
I did my first live base recording yesterday and today, thanks to your video, I was able to quantize it. Thanks so much for your videos Graham. I'm grateful. God bless you.
Great video Graham ! I was already using Elsastic Audio for a while but never messed with the Warp markers. So your explanations reavealed to full power of these. Thanks !
Great tutorial! I wish I had it spelled out to me this clearly when I started using it years ago. I just wanted to add that if you have the time to let it render, X-Form sounds the most transparent. When I'm completely done editing, I like to switch to X-Form, let it render (takes a while even on a good machine), and then commit.
Great tutorial! I have been finding each individual transient myself and adjusting each manually. This tutorial will take me to a much higher level in editing. All I was trying to do was find if vocal tracks could be sped up or slowed down after recording. I guess the answer is "yes." Thanks so much.
Great tutorial! Very helpful and succinct. Wish i had this like 7 years ago, but then also it's a little scary how you can essentially play something out of time and out of pitch and protools can fix it all and even make it sound "human" with variables. Think of all the years I spent actually learning how to sing and play on pitch and on time..what a waste! (just kidding).
Pretty cool. I still prefer the Flex Time in Logic Pro 9 though. It's similar but there's only one view and each transient is color coded whether they were compressed or stretched. I love it!
Hey Graham! Is it better to use beat detective considering time stretching can leave behind artifacts, or are these such slight adjustments it's alright to do this? Thanks man I have watched Every video you have made and your a blessing. My teacher Michael Cochran said you got a hold of his track at some point and mixed it. We both recommend you to our class all the time!
i read on a forum that guitars should be set to ticks not samples when doing EA. Any truth to that? I've always done samples unless I want to change the tempo of the whole track
really awesome video just what i needed to learn.....do you have any vids on delay compensation. like what to do if it reaches red...is it bad or good. & how to does affect the overall production
Hi Graham...I watched your video along with many others and continue to find that when I apply elastic audio along with quantize just to tighten things up a bit on an acoustic track the audio phases and becomes completely un musical...is there a real time setting im missing. Just doesnt seem to be getting the samet results even though it looks easy enough to apply. Thanks for what you do!
No story needed.. Not dissing PT's I used it for 9yrs or more. But Reaper Slip Editing for like drums is really fast and doesn't have to stretch any audio.. So you're are ever altering the original audio. Both are cool.. Just sound Reaper to be much faster and when working with clients who tape their foot because the clock is ticking and that is money.. Reaper wins.. But of course if the client could play drums you shouldn't need to do crazy edits.. But that's not how it is anymore...
Can you help me align a multitrack drum track that was reorded without click? I want to align it at the recirded temp. Also I have tow guitar tracks in harmony and one needs to be stretched longer to match the other can you help?
I tend to hit "xform" before committing it to the track because xform has a much more complex alg that sounds better..so I just use the real time algs (monophonic, polyphonic) to audition the timing, then I switch to xform to give it the best possible alg...then I commit
great videos, been going through them all night! I was wondering if there is a way to match all your elastic audio tracks to the global BPM? like, if I analyze and quantize an audio track to the grid, then change the BPM, can I have the transient markers follow that new global BPM? I'm not having any luck with it right now.
I for some reason do this and it won't ever bring the audio back online. Specifically what Im trying to do is not align transients to the grid I am just trying to stretch a wave from to fit a certain amount of bars, its a polyrhythmic music thing Im experimenting with to explain that but it never comes online so I can't listen to it stretched and I also need polyphonic, is there much different I have to do?
Something that I never thought about this elastic audio tool when took my first client. Was that this trick does NOT work for any doubled mono performances that are hard paned. Yes, it aligns the notes to the grid, but in the process of time locking everything to the grid you absolutely destroy any kind of positive phase correlation that was helping the sound of your stereo instruments. Once I got wise and learned about phase, unfortunately after all of my tracks were in the middle of my first mixing stages, my doubled guitars and effects had been completely shot of any kind of positive phase viability. These songs can now not be played through a mono source and sound good. The phase of the doubles completely take out random frequencies. Unfortunately I wasn't aware of it, but I will never use Elastic Audio for editing anything thats doubled ever again. Whether that be two separate performances playing the same part, or two mic's on one mono source, this should not be the go to for editing. Otherwise I have nothing more to say about this. It can come in handy for single performances. Don't be like me and take this into consideration before you edit your guitars this way or, even better, before your artist leaves the studio. Believe me, It's going to be what makes your mix a good mix or a pro mix. Also, another great video by Graham. Keep it up! Love your work.
I'm using logics flex time to accomplish a similar editing style but am running into an issue... I'm trying to record a basic scratch track for my drummer to play to. I want it to be in time (I play to a metronome and play pretty close) but would like to lock to the grid. However, I feel like this kills the "feel" of my track. It's just a basic pop song but I don't want to lose the nuance of the main guitar part. Any suggestions on how to make a good scratch track and keep the feel of the song?
If it's just a scratch track it can be as locked as you want, then I'd suggest later going back and taking time to record a well timed track over the drums. It'll probably be easier to play to the drums because it feels more natural and has more subdivisions
+LucidLife On audio that has a lot of notes, or a lot of guitar strumming, we could try to remove some of the analysis markers, and only keep the ones on the first beat of each measure, and then quantize. Let me know what you get.
+Fred Krubel Your right Fred. I figured out how to use the plugin better, by reducing the number of analysis markers, and only focusing on the down beat.
Excellent tutorial, Graham! Precise and concise with no "I love to hear my own voice" fluff! You are a True gentleman!
This helped so much. I've been trying to mix this song for about a week now. Something about it just sounded off. I used this on the rhythm section and I could see that both takes were slightly out of sync. It wasn't by much but I could definitely hear it. I used this to tighten up all of my guitar tracks and now my song sounds amazing. I am so glad I came across this video. Thank Graham!!
loved this straightforward and clear tutorial
Yesterday I started using elastic audio in PT and it's freaking awsome. It has helped me a lot with my friend drum recording, which was out of beat of course haha.
This is by far the simplest explanation of elastic time ever! Great video!
I did my first live base recording yesterday and today, thanks to your video, I was able to quantize it. Thanks so much for your videos Graham. I'm grateful.
God bless you.
Great video Graham ! I was already using Elsastic Audio for a while but never messed with the Warp markers. So your explanations reavealed to full power of these. Thanks !
Thank you Graham. I have found so many of your protools videos to be incredibly helpful.
You should be commended!
Great tutorial! I wish I had it spelled out to me this clearly when I started using it years ago. I just wanted to add that if you have the time to let it render, X-Form sounds the most transparent. When I'm completely done editing, I like to switch to X-Form, let it render (takes a while even on a good machine), and then commit.
Great tutorial! I have been finding each individual transient myself and adjusting each manually. This tutorial will take me to a much higher level in editing. All I was trying to do was find if vocal tracks could be sped up or slowed down after recording. I guess the answer is "yes." Thanks so much.
Thanks Graham, You guys are making a big difference to the speed of my work flow. Scott
I knew I could count on you to have a tutorial for exactly what I needed to learn how to do now -- thank you!
Thanks Graham, I added this one to my library , nice, concise and factual. I'll come back for more.
You can always count on RecordingRevolution for a very well done, well explained video. Thank you!
Great tutorial! Very helpful and succinct. Wish i had this like 7 years ago, but then also it's a little scary how you can essentially play something out of time and out of pitch and protools can fix it all and even make it sound "human" with variables. Think of all the years I spent actually learning how to sing and play on pitch and on time..what a waste! (just kidding).
Great tutorial Graham! Loved it and just what I needed in my next step!
I do not use ProTools, but this video still very helpful for my DAW's version. Thanks.
Really awesome lesson!
Great explanation!
Pretty cool. I still prefer the Flex Time in Logic Pro 9 though. It's similar but there's only one view and each transient is color coded whether they were compressed or stretched. I love it!
Thanks Graham, great video. Very helpful. This was well thought-out, clear, and easy to follow. THANKS MAN!!
great tips as usual! thank you Graham!
Hey Graham! Is it better to use beat detective considering time stretching can leave behind artifacts, or are these such slight adjustments it's alright to do this? Thanks man I have watched Every video you have made and your a blessing. My teacher Michael Cochran said you got a hold of his track at some point and mixed it. We both recommend you to our class all the time!
Best tut ever. Great example!
this is exactly what i needed and never new about...lol..thanks a lot..ill never cut up my bass lines again
Awesome. Just what I needed.
I been looking for ever how to do this.
thanks man. this helped me sample a track perfectly
i read on a forum that guitars should be set to ticks not samples when doing EA. Any truth to that? I've always done samples unless I want to change the tempo of the whole track
That was a really nice tutorial Graham. God bless. You have a great teaching talent. Keep up the great work!
Extremely helpful as usual!
really awesome video just what i needed to learn.....do you have any vids on delay compensation. like what to do if it reaches red...is it bad or good. & how to does affect the overall production
Wow! I didn't know, that elastic audio can be quantized too.
SUPER helpful. Thank you!
In the straightest way possible... Man crush, Graham.... Man crush.
fantastic video! thanks for keeping the video concise and to the point
Great!! Very very helpful
Another great video!
Just curious.. What is the piece of music you use for your intro?
This looks a lot better than Live's warping setup. Can protools ReWire Ableton as slave?
Great video...Thanks Graham
great tutorial man very informative!
Hi Graham...I watched your video along with many others and continue to find that when I apply elastic audio along with quantize just to tighten things up a bit on an acoustic track the audio phases and becomes completely un musical...is there a real time setting im missing. Just doesnt seem to be getting the samet results even though it looks easy enough to apply. Thanks for what you do!
No story needed.. Not dissing PT's I used it for 9yrs or more. But Reaper Slip Editing for like drums is really fast and doesn't have to stretch any audio.. So you're are ever altering the original audio. Both are cool.. Just sound Reaper to be much faster and when working with clients who tape their foot because the clock is ticking and that is money.. Reaper wins..
But of course if the client could play drums you shouldn't need to do crazy edits.. But that's not how it is anymore...
Can you help me align a multitrack drum track that was reorded without click? I want to align it at the recirded temp. Also I have tow guitar tracks in harmony and one needs to be stretched longer to match the other can you help?
Amazing. Thank you
So you did not have to convert the track to tic based, correct?
I tend to hit "xform" before committing it to the track because xform has a much more complex alg that sounds better..so I just use the real time algs (monophonic, polyphonic) to audition the timing, then I switch to xform to give it the best possible alg...then I commit
very helpful,
Oh Thanks a lot! So informative...
great videos, been going through them all night! I was wondering if there is a way to match all your elastic audio tracks to the global BPM? like, if I analyze and quantize an audio track to the grid, then change the BPM, can I have the transient markers follow that new global BPM? I'm not having any luck with it right now.
good stuff!
Graham you are a Hero. true and true.
I’ve added an audio to my project and somehow pitched the whole project down and mistakenly saved after, help?
Thanks that was great!
I for some reason do this and it won't ever bring the audio back online. Specifically what Im trying to do is not align transients to the grid I am just trying to stretch a wave from to fit a certain amount of bars, its a polyrhythmic music thing Im experimenting with to explain that but it never comes online so I can't listen to it stretched and I also need polyphonic, is there much different I have to do?
sorry for typo's working late and laptop keyboard sucks..
awesome
Something that I never thought about this elastic audio tool when took my first client. Was that this trick does NOT work for any doubled mono performances that are hard paned. Yes, it aligns the notes to the grid, but in the process of time locking everything to the grid you absolutely destroy any kind of positive phase correlation that was helping the sound of your stereo instruments.
Once I got wise and learned about phase, unfortunately after all of my tracks were in the middle of my first mixing stages, my doubled guitars and effects had been completely shot of any kind of positive phase viability. These songs can now not be played through a mono source and sound good. The phase of the doubles completely take out random frequencies. Unfortunately I wasn't aware of it, but I will never use Elastic Audio for editing anything thats doubled ever again. Whether that be two separate performances playing the same part, or two mic's on one mono source, this should not be the go to for editing.
Otherwise I have nothing more to say about this. It can come in handy for single performances. Don't be like me and take this into consideration before you edit your guitars this way or, even better, before your artist leaves the studio. Believe me, It's going to be what makes your mix a good mix or a pro mix.
Also, another great video by Graham. Keep it up! Love your work.
+Parker Middleton couldn't you then go to slip mode and move one of your tracks a little farther down sort of like the haas effect?
Thanks, BRO!
I'm using logics flex time to accomplish a similar editing style but am running into an issue...
I'm trying to record a basic scratch track for my drummer to play to. I want it to be in time (I play to a metronome and play pretty close) but would like to lock to the grid. However, I feel like this kills the "feel" of my track. It's just a basic pop song but I don't want to lose the nuance of the main guitar part.
Any suggestions on how to make a good scratch track and keep the feel of the song?
If it's just a scratch track it can be as locked as you want, then I'd suggest later going back and taking time to record a well timed track over the drums. It'll probably be easier to play to the drums because it feels more natural and has more subdivisions
Thx ,very clear!, saves me a lot of time
really wish i had watched this video sooner! haha!
perfect!!
you should mention that you want to use X Form before committing, way less artifacts.
You're the goat🤝
Thats a lot Gram!
very good video
Thank you for this one ;-)
great vid
I get an artificial over corrected sound when quantizing the strumming of guitar chords, in polyphonic elastic audio, with pro tools 10.
+Lawrence Adams Jr Yea everytime I quantize audio, or use elastic audio I get the same thing
+LucidLife On audio that has a lot of notes, or a lot of guitar strumming, we could try to remove some of the analysis markers, and only keep the ones on the first beat of each measure, and then quantize. Let me
know what you get.
I'll try that. Is there a way to control the number of warp markers pro tools produces?
+Lawrence Adams Jr Takes practice to play in time, though perhaps used subletly this feature can be used without the dreaded warble.
+Fred Krubel Your right Fred. I figured out how to use the plugin better, by reducing the number of analysis markers, and only focusing on the down beat.
thanks
nice
That's right.
Yo lemme hear dat track
Good video btw, thanks.
Time saver
@Faderjockey cool story bro....
Whale shiet!
Wow Reaper is faster...
VERY GOOD EXPLANATION
THANKS
Any logic users out there that know how to do this editing that he's talking about in logic?
You can use Flex Time to quantize audio