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To change Source Tempo of a region:
1
Open the Elastic Properties window for the re-
gion.
2
Select the correct note value for the beat from
the Tempo Resolution pop-up menu. For exam-
ple, if the source file is in 5/8, select 1/8 note.
3
Do one of the following:
• Type the tempo in the Source Tempo field.
• If the tempo was incorrectly analyzed as be-
ing half the tempo of the source file, click
the x2 button.
• If the tempo was incorrectly analyzed as be-
ing twice the tempo of the source file, click
the 1/2 button.
Meter Field (Tick-Based Only)
Elastic Audio analysis does not calculate meter
and assumes all files are in 4/4. If you work with
meters other than 4/4, use the Meter property to
correctly identify the source meter.
To change Meter of a region:
1
Open the Elastic Properties window for the re-
gion.
2
Click in the Meter nominator field and type
the correct number of beats per measure. For ex-
ample, if the region is in 3/4, type 3.
3
Click the Meter denominator field and type
the correct note value. For example, if the meter
is in 6/8, type 8.
TCE Factor Property
The TCE Factor property in the Elastic Properties
window displays the percentage of change ap-
plied to the source file. On tick-based tracks, this
property is display only and cannot be edited.
On sample-based tracks, you can change the
TCE Factor to apply TCE to the region. The per-
centage of the TCE factor is always calculated in
relation to the source file. The TCE Factor value
turns red when Elastic Audio processes exceeds
the valid range (see “Out of Range Processing”
on page 876).
Event Sensitivity Property
The Event Sensitivity property in the Elastic
Properties window lets you filter Event markers
based on the analysis confidence level. The con-
fidence level for any detected transient event is
based, in part, on the clarity of the transient. For
example, if the file is a drum loop, loud accented
hits will be analyzed with a higher degree of
confidence than a soft, unaccented hit.
The Event Sensitivity acts like a threshold for
showing only the transient events that were de-
tected with a high degree of confidence. In
Warp or Analysis track views you will see the
number of Event markers decrease or increase as
you lower or raise the Event Sensitivity.
Lowering the event sensitivity can help reduce
the number of erroneously detected transients.
In turn, this can result in better sounding Elastic
Audio processing. Pro Tools preserves the de-
tected transients when applying TCE in order to
avoid flamming and granulation of the tran-
sients. Consequently, false transients are also
preserved and the resulting sound quality can be
less than desirable. If you are working with au-
dio material that does not have clearly defined
transients, you may want to lower the Event
Sensitivity in the Elastic Properties, or you may
want to even edit the Event markers in Analysis
view.
If lowering the Event Sensitivity results in filter-
ing out important Event markers, you can pro-
mote those Event markers in Analysis view (see
“Promoting Event Markers” on page 878).
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Reset Button
Click the Reset button in the Elastic Properties
window to reset event analysis data for the re-
gion to match the original file. The Event Sensi-
tivity property is reset to 100%.
Input Gain Property
It is possible to encounter clipping when time
compressing audio. Real-Time Elastic Audio
plug-ins provide a Clip indicator to let you know
when clipping has occurred and the Elastic Au-
dio plug-in button turns red. Rendered Elastic
Audio regions display a Clip indicator on the re-
gion when clipping has occurred (see “Region
Clip Indicator” on page 866).
If you encounter clipping when processing Elas-
tic Audio, use the Input Gain property in the
Elastic Properties window to attenuate the gain
of the audio signal before it is processed.
Pitch Shift Property(Polyphonic,
Rhythmic, and X-Form Only)
The Pitch Shift property in the Elastic Properties
window lets you pitch shift whole regions on
Elastic Audio-enabled tracks using the Poly-
phonic, Rhythmic, and X-Form plug-ins. You
apply real-time or rendered pitch shifting in
semitones and cents by +/– 2 octaves.
Elastic Audio Region-Based
Pitch Shifting
(Polyphonic, Rhythmic, and X-Form Only)
In addition to Pro Tools Elastic Audio time com-
pression and expansion capabilities, you can
also change the pitch of whole audio regions in
semitones and cents in the range of +/– 2 oc-
taves.
To pitch shift a region:
1
Make sure the region, or regions, you want to
pitch shift are on Elastic Audio-enabled tracks
(using the Polyphonic, Rhythmic, or X-Form al-
gorithm).
2
With the Grabber or Selector tool, select the
audio region you want to pitch shift. Only re-
gions that are completely selected will be af-
fected.
For REX files, Pro Tools converts the slices
as Events with 100% confidence. Conse-
quently, setting the Event Sensitivity from
99% to 1% does not filter out any events
based on slices. However, if you set the
Event Sensitivity to 0%, all markers are
filtered out regardless.
When you change the Event Sensitivity
property, Pro Tools writes temporary fil-
tered Elastic Audio analysis files (.aan) to
the session’s Rendered Files folder. Any
unused temporary filtered analysis files are
purged when you close the session.
Elastic Audio pitch transposition is not sup-
ported with the Monophonic algorithm.
However, if you switch to the Monophonic
plug-in after pitch shifting with another
plug-in, the pitch metadata for the region is
maintained.
Elastic Audio pitch transposition cannot be
applied to looped regions or region groups.
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3
Open the Elastic Properties window for the re-
gion.
4
Adjust the Pitch Shift settings up (“+”) or down
(“–”) by an amount in semitones and cents.
To transpose the pitch of an audio region in the
Transpose window:
1
Make sure the region, or regions, you want to
Transpose are on Elastic Audio-enabled tracks
(using the Polyphonic, Rhythmic, or X-Form al-
gorithm).
2
With the Grabber or Selector tool, select the
audio region you want to transpose. Only re-
gions that are completely selected will be af-
fected.
3
Choose Event > Event Operations > Transpose.
4
Do one of the following:
• Adjust the Transpose By settings by an
amount in semitones and cents.
– or –
• Adjust the Transpose From and To settings
by an amount in Semitones and Cents.
5
Click Apply.
Varispeed and Pitch Shifting
When using the Varispeed algorithm, pitch
transposition and time compression/expansion
are always linked. If you apply pitch transposi-
tion to an audio region using the Polyphonic or
Rhythmic algorithms, that transposition data is
stored in the metadata for the region. Conse-
quently, if you then switch to Varispeed, change
the TCE factor, and then switch back to the orig-
inal Elastic Audio algorithm, the region will re-
vert to the original amount of pitch shifting
while maintaining the amount of time compres-
sion/expansion applied by the Varispeed algo-
rithm.
Elastic Properties window
Event Operations, Transpose
The Transpose All Notes To and the Trans-
pose In Key settings can only be applied to
MIDI notes. When only audio regions are
selected, these options are unavailable.
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Removing Region Pitch Shifting
If you have applied any pitch shifting to a re-
gion, you can remove pitch shifting and revert
the region to its original pitch. This can be use-
ful if you are not satisfied with the results and
want to revert to the pre–pitch shifted region.
To remove region pitch shifting:
1
Select the region for which you want to re-
move warping.
2
Do one of the following:
• Choose Region > Remove Pitch Shift.
– or –
• With any Edit tool, Right-click the region
and select Remove Pitch Shift.
AudioSuite Processing and
Elastic Audio Regions
Real-Time Elastic Audio processing is non-de-
structive. However, since AudioSuite plug-ins
process the entire region and write a new audio
file (or actually apply destructive processing),
when applying AudioSuite processing to regions
on Elastic Audio-enabled tracks, any Elastic Au-
dio processing is rendered first, the rendered file
is then processed by AudioSuite, and the result-
ing new audio file is analyzed for Elastic Audio
processing.
Remove Pitch Shift can only be applied to
regions and cannot be applied to region
groups. To remove pitch shifting from re-
gion groups you must first ungroup the re-
gion, then apply Remove Pitch Shift to the
underlying regions, and then regroup those
regions.
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Moving Elastic Audio Between Tracks
Pro Tools analyzes, conforms, and commits audio in different ways when moving audio regions be-
tween tracks with Elastic Audio enabled and tracks without Elastic Audio enabled. The following table
shows the different results for moving regions between real-time Elastic Audio-enabled tracks, Ren-
dered Elastic Audio-enabled tracks, and audio tracks without Elastic Audio.
Moving Elastic Audio between tracks
From
To
Result
Real-time Elastic
Audio–enabled track
Rendered Elastic
Audio–enabled track
Render region with destination track’s Elastic Audio plug-
in
Real-time Elastic
Audio–enabled track
audio track (no Elastic
Audio)
Render region with source track’s Elastic Audio plug-in
and commit the region to the destination track
Rendered Elastic
Audio–enabled track
Real-time Elastic
Audio–enabled track
Apply real-time Elastic Audio processing using the desti-
nation track’s Elastic Audio plug-in
Rendered Elastic
Audio–enabled track
audio track (no Elastic
Audio)
Commit to track
Audio track (no Elastic
Audio)
Real-time Elastic
Audio–enabled track
Calculate Elastic Audio analysis and apply real-time Elas-
tic Audio processing using the destination track’s Elastic
Audio plug-in
Audio track (no Elastic
Audio)
Rendered Elastic
Audio–enabled track
Calculate Elastic Audio analysis and render the region
using the destination track’s Elastic Audio plug-in
Pitched Elastic
Audio–enabled track
audio track (no Elastic
Audio)
Render region pitch shift with source track’s Elastic
Audio plug-in and commit the region to the destination
track
Regions that are committed, either by disabling Elastic Audio on a track or by moving a region to a
track without Elastic Audio enabled, are written to disk as new audio files (see “Committed Regions”
on page 862.)
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Fades and MicroFades
Fades and Elastic Audio
Processing
When applying fades to warped regions (regions
that have been processed by Elastic Audio), the
audio selected for the fade is first rendered and
then the fade is generated based on the rendered
audio file. While you can create fades and cross-
fades on regions on Elastic Audio-enabled
tracks, neither Real-Time nor Rendered Elastic
Audio processing can be applied to fades. Con-
sequently, fades always retain their absolute du-
ration and fades must be recalculated after any
Elastic Audio processing has been applied to the
underlying audio.
For example, if you change the session tempo, a
region on a tick-based Elastic Audio-enabled
track will change its duration (in minutes and
seconds) to match the new tempo, but any fades
that are part of that region do not change dura-
tion. The underlying audio is processed to
match the tempo change, then it is rendered,
and then the fade is regenerated. Even though
the underlying audio changes, the absolute du-
ration of the fade does not.
In Warp view, you will notice that Event mark-
ers never appear in fades and that Warp markers
cannot be added within fades. As a general rule,
apply fades to regions on Elastic Audio-enabled
tracks only after you have finished any manual
warp editing.
Microfades
Real-time Elastic Audio processing is not com-
pletely deterministic. Consequently, depending
on where you start playback, the part of a region
being played might actually be a few samples
longer or shorter. When fades or crossfades are
applied to warped regions, the audio waveform
at the boundary between the (real-time) region
and the (rendered) fade may not actually be con-
tinuous.
For example, if there are two butt-spliced re-
gions on a Real-Time Elastic Audio-enabled
track, Elastic Audio processes them separately
even though they are contiguous on the track.
As a result, the audio may not really be contigu-
ous after Elastic Audio processing and there may
be an audible pop when playing back across the
transition between the two regions.
To help compensate, Pro Tools applies micro-
fades to region boundaries on Real-Time Elastic
Audio-enabled tracks. Microfades are small real-
time fades at region boundaries intended to mit-
igate artifacts across region boundaries, or be-
tween an Elastic Audio processed region and a
rendered Fade file. Microfades are very short;
they are only about 1.5 milliseconds long (64
samples at 44 kHz, 128 samples at 96 kHz, and
256 samples at 192 kHz).
Region groups that contain regions with
fades are not allowed on Elastic Audio-en-
abled tracks.
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Approximate Waveforms
Another consequence of Real-Time Elastic Au-
dio processing is that the drawing of the wave-
forms is only approximate. For example, if you
bus record a Real-Time Elastic Audio processed
track, you will notice that the Waveform on the
source track does not necessarily exactly match
the recorded track. However, be assured that
what you hear is an accurate rendition of the
Real-Time Elastic Audio processing even if the
waveform drawing on the source track is only
approximate.
Elastic Audio Preferences
The Elastic Audio settings in the Processing Pref-
erences page determine which Elastic Audio
plug-in is used for preview and import, and
whether or not new tracks are created with Elas-
tic Audio enabled using the selected default
plug-in.
Default Plug-In Lets you select any Real-Time
Elastic Audio plug-in as the default plug-in for
previewing and importing Elastic Audio. The se-
lected default Elastic Audio plug-in is also used
when new tracks are created with Elastic Audio
enabled. The Elastic Audio Plug-In selector in
DigiBase browsers inherits the selected Default
Plug-In setting. Likewise, changing the selected
plug-in in DigiBase browsers updates the se-
lected Default Plug-In setting in the Processing
Preferences page.
Default Input Gain Lets you attenuate the signal
input to Elastic Audio plug-ins by 0 to –6 dB for
preview and import. If you experience clipping
due to Elastic Audio processing during preview
or after import, you may want to set the Default
Input Gain to slightly attenuate the audio signal
input for Elastic Audio processing. This prefer-
ence also applies to any audio imported to an
Elastic Audio-enabled track.
If you commit any regions on a track (by dis-
abling Elastic Audio on the track) that were im-
ported with Input Gain, their region-based In
put Gain is reset to 0.
The Elastic Properties window inherits the De-
fault Input Gain preference. To apply further re-
gion-based Input Gain for Elastic Audio process-
ing, select the region and adjust the Input Gain
setting in the Elastic Properties window (see
“Elastic Properties Window” on page 880).
Enable Elastic Audio on New Tracks When se-
lected, new tracks are created with Elastic Audio
enabled. The selected default Elastic Audio plug-
in is used.
Elastic Audio preferences
If the Enable Elastic Audio on New Tracks
option is selected, you may want to also
select the New Tracks Default to Tick Time-
base option in the Editing Preferences page.
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