What the heck?!?! Pitch editing in a copied soundbite

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What the heck?!?! Pitch editing in a copied soundbite

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I need your help all. I'm having an issue that I'm hoping you can explain. I had a singer come in to sing a few tracks of backing vocals. Somehow in the confusion, we missed one of the choruses on one of the tracks. Now she's no longer here. So I selected and grabbed her part for the second chorus and put it where her part in the first chorus should have been. So far, so good. But one note at the end of the second chorus is different because it transitions to a bridge and modulates keys. No problem, I thought: I'll just correct the note by moving it in the pitch window in the sequence window. That worked just fine, but now the change is being reflected in the original soundbite as well, rendering it out of tune when it hits the bridge. Why do all my changes in the copied soundbite get automatically made in the original soundbite? How can I make them behave independently? Thanks!
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Re: What the heck?!?! Pitch editing in a copied soundbite

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Select one of them and then under the Audio menu choose "Duplicate Soundbite". Now they can be pitch corrected independently.
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Thanks, Kurt. You have saved me! Much appreciated.
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Re: What the heck?!?! Pitch editing in a copied soundbite

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There's more than one way to do this but I would undo and restore the original soundbite to its previous state. No need to undo the Paste, though.

You can use DP highlight just that portion of the track you want and use Bounce to Disk to make a copy of just that chorus.

Drop it into the track and edge edit. Correct the pitch as you like.
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Or...option stretch (or condense) the second copied soundbite. It makes a new one which you can then restore to the desired length.

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Yea, DP just thinks they are the same soundbite (because they are) so you have to do some maneuver (some have suggested above so that DP knows you want them to be different.

I personally wouldn't use the time-stretch option, as I fear it might leave little artifacts.
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stubbsonic wrote:I personally wouldn't use the time-stretch option, as I fear it might leave little artifacts.
I should have worded it differently.

I didn't mean to time-stretch, just lengthen or shorten the soundbite by edge editing with the option key. With the option key engaged, that forces DP to create a new soundbite no longer attached to the parent.

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I think Merge Soundbite would work here, too.

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Merge! Good call.

I think if you wanted to conserve disk space, you could have two different soundbites referring to the same audio file each with its own pitch edit info. So theoretically, you wouldn't need to do anything other than use buzzy's method of edge editing to create another soundbite without adding data. (Make sure edge edit copy is checked. This ensures that if you have two of the same soundbite and edge edit the second, the first won't change.
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"Duplicate" will not generate a new audio file, just a duplicate soundbite. That's why I suggested it in the first reply in this thread.
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Good to know. Yea all the rest of this hoop jumping is unnecessary.
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As always, I am impressed by the breadth of knowledge of the Nation and appreciate all the great tips.
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