How to hold a Vocal note for long time?!

Hello,



Anyone can help me how to do this in ableton?



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David Guetta & Chris Willis Feat. Fergie & LMFAO - Gettin' Over You (Official Video) - YouTube





thanks in advance

You could try doing what tom cosm does in this vid.



Tom Cosm



might work.

i try but doesnt work…sounds terrible…

Ahhh, thought it might. Not something i’ve ever done myself, wish i could help ya mate

[quote]onetwoseven (30/06/2010)[hr]Ahhh, thought it might. Not something i’ve ever done myself, wish i could help ya mate[/quote]



no problm… maybe someone knows!



thanks anyway :wink:

I gather the type of vocal loop your after would be like the Steve Angello - BE track?

[quote]onetwoseven (30/06/2010)[hr]You could try doing what tom cosm does in this vid.



Tom Cosm



might work.[/quote]



It’s a cool tip but i can’t see how it could work with vocals or certain sounds because of the reverse.



Have you tried melodyne? You can stretch out bits of the vocal? Otherwise Live 8 lets you stretch pretty successfully, you’d have to play around and tweek to get it sounding smoother and not so gritty, but it can be done depending on how long you want to stretch.

Otherwise looping is your option, maybe try using lots of reverb / delay to help blend and smooth out your loops or stretches.

Jeez - She has some set of lungs on her… Didnt realise she was on that track.

David Guetta - He’s a bit of a guilty pleasure really isnt he? Fair play.

I’ve never dont this myself - But… I always imagined that it was a Sample - with loop points set somewhere in the middle & then played in a sampler / keyboard / 1 long note. That way you could get something to sound like a Pad etc…

But - If you actually listen to that part, its more like a skipping sound, like its being retriggered, so it might just be a series of midi notes - or could even be as easy as a bit of chopped up audio with fades at each end.

Must try it out.  

i try many things but always sound like a loop and not a continue voice like the example i made in the first topic :doze:

[quote]DJ_Labs (30/06/2010)[hr]i try many things but always sound like a loop and not a continue voice like the example i made in the first topic :doze:[/quote]

That doesnt sound like a held note to me Mate.

Listen to it again…

cant you just cut the audio and repeat it for a bit? cut a real thin quantized slice and repeat?

[quote]jpgetty2win (30/06/2010)[hr]cant you just cut the audio and repeat it for a bit? cut a real thin quantized slice and repeat?[/quote]

Thats how I think its done in this tune…

The Technique the OP is asking about is similar - but different, as it involves using a Sampler & all that ****.

ye i know the effect hes after. mirwaiz used it on madonnas tracks.

on the track “im so stupid” at 0.31 he uses it quite blantantly.  

this is the gear mirwais uses. its gonna one of these that does it

MIRWAIS GEAR

Alesis ADAT (3)
Alesis QuadraVerb processor
AMS 1580 S-DMX pitch shifter
Antares Auto-Tune plug-in
Apple Mac G4
Clavia Nord Lead 2 rack module
Clavia Nord Lead 3 rack module
dbx 120XP Subharmonic Synthesizer
Digidesign 888|24 I/O interface
Digidesign Pro Tools
Emagic Logic Audio
EMS Vocoder 2000
E-mu E6400 Ultra sampler
Eventide H3000 Ultra-Harmonizer
Gibson Les Paul Goldtop guitar
Ibanez SDR-1000 effects processor
Korg Prophecy keyboard
Mackie HR8 monitors
MAM VF 11 vocoder
Martin D-28 acoustic guitar
MOTU MIDI Express XT interface
Roland JD-990 Super JD rack synth module
Roland VP-9000 VariPhrase Processor
TC Electronic Finalizer
Yamaha NS10 monitors
Yamaha O2R mixer
Waldorf Microwave XT synth

[quote]DJ_Labs (30/06/2010)[hr]Hello,



Anyone can help me how to do this in ableton?



Start @ 2:29:

David Guetta & Chris Willis Feat. Fergie & LMFAO - Gettin' Over You (Official Video) - YouTube





thanks in advance[/quote]



First time I bothered to listen to the track, you can clearly hear it looping!

Theres definitely a really proper polished way of doing it…



But you can either cut it & paste it out…



Or:



If you have Live - Simpler will let you choose a part to loop. You can mess around with the fades / envelopes etc… till your brain feels like its been eaten.



Its not the exact proper way as I say… but you get the basic idea.



Same principal as all those old Synths - They had like 1sec of audio sampled into them by the Factory, just looped @ a point… Think the standard OOH and AAH Choir sounds… But they did that on everything.



Looping it like that - if you had a good sampler - would let you go all crazy with LFO’s and everything.



I need a ladder to get off this chair cos I’ve gone mad listening to looping vocals in Simpler. You can get some pretty interesting sounding stuff - out of anything!



Too tired to use Google properly - if anyone finds anything before me, please post it. Its all Audio / Sampling Techniques you need. CM did a special a while back on sampling, might be worth digging out if anyone has it.

ok guys, i’ll try some things u wrote.



thanks

[quote]DJ_Labs (01/07/2010)[hr]ok guys, i’ll try some things u wrote.



thanks[/quote]



Yeah it’s defo looped, you can use reverb and delay to help blend the loops together so they smooth out a little, just play around till you get it right. It’s all about the correct quantized loop aswell, otherwise it can sound weird. If you listen to Fergie, her looped voice bit is starting on the 16ths

it’s looped with some heavy crossfading on it.