(It’s still there if you really insist, although it’s probably a signal of Apple’s intent that it now comes with a total car-crash of an interface which blends graphics from Logic 9 with the new look of Logic X – we’d be surprised if it wasn’t ditched or completely redesigned next time around.) Meanwhile, the rest of us will be enjoying the convenience of finally being able to call up useful, intuitive and easy-to-use MIDI plugins. By all means, feel free to continue hammering numbers into the ludicrously outdated Environment window. The standard set of plugins is basically just a repackaging of the utilities which could be found in Logic 9’s Environment. To any smart alecs already drafting furious emails informing us that Logic already had MIDI effects, you’re totally right. The new MIDI FX slots finally introduce a user-friendly arpeggiator to Logic Logic X finally addresses the omission with the introduction of a new MIDI FX slot which sits before the instrument plugin on a channel strip. We’ve been bemoaning the absence of MIDI effect plugins in Logic for a long, long time. Here’s its take on the vocal melody from the examples above: MIDI FX Unfortunately, its results are as hit and miss as its Ableton counterpart. The Flex Pitch edit menu also offers a new Create MIDI Track From Flex Pitch Data feature, broadly similar to the audio to MIDI features introduced in Ableton Live 9. Then again, even the most basic version of Melodyne costs €99 Flex Pitch is certainly very impressive for a free, built-in effect, and there are potential creative uses outside the obvious vocal correction. Although it allows pitch, formant, gain, vibrato and drift to be adjusted, it simply doesn’t offer the range of features found in a commercial alternative such as Melodyne or Auto-Tune Evo. If you’re serious about vocals and need a fully-featured pitch correction tool, you’ll probably want a little more than Flex Pitch has to offer. Even so, the results sound pretty good, whether correcting the pitch of individual notes, pitch-shifting an entire vocal or employing the pitch tools in tandem with Flex Time to reshape the rhythm and melody of a recording simultaneously. Suggestions that Flex Pitch is Apple’s answer to Celemony Melodyne are, in all honesty, a little wide of the mark. Flex Pitch is the natural follow-up to Flex Time, allowing monophonic audio parts to be pitch-corrected via a user-friendly waveform-based display. One of Logic X’s main new features focusses on live vocal recordings. As you’ll see, Flex Pitch is both a surprisingly intuitive and powerful musical tool, and well worth closer exploration.Flex Pitch’s Melodyne-style pitch correction options allow vocals (and other instruments) to be tweaked in the audio track editor Flex Pitch Beyond basic pitch-correction, we’ll also explore some of the creative possibilities of Flex Pitch – in this case, creating a complete series of multitracked backing vocals from a single vocal performance. ![]() Given the importance of Flex Pitch in terms of correcting a vocal performance, therefore, this tutorial looks specifically at the task of editing and refining a vocal track. Providing the source material is clean, you’ll enjoy a surprising degree of freedom, from the ability to correct poor intonation through to completely re-pitching a melody you can even control aspects such as vibrato and formant positioning. ![]() The assumed source for Flex Pitch is a monophonic recording – such as a vocal, upright bass or lead guitar – rather than an instrument that produces chords. Beyond this, though, all comparisons end, given the unique and powerful new set of features Flex Pitch offers.Īs with all current pitch-correction technologies, it’s important that you’re clear from the start about what you can and can’t achieve with Flex Pitch. ![]() As you’d expect, Flex Pitch ‘bolts on’ to the existing Flex Time functionality, with Flex Pitch effectively being an additional Flex mode, in addition to the existing Flex Time modes. Whereas Flex Time offered Logic users unprecedented tempo- and time-based flexibility over their audio, Flex Pitch offers the same degree of elasticity in relation to the pitch of a performance. ![]() Flex Pitch was introduced in Logic Pro X as an addition to the existing Flex Time functionality.
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