110: 06: Working with Elastic Audio

Question 1

After enabling a tack for elastic audio, how would you enable the track to update dynamically to match any subsequent tempo changes you make in the selection?

Answer 1

Make it tick based

Question 2

Which real-time elastic audio plugin typically works best for drums? Which typically works best for vocals?

Answer 2

Rhythmic, monophonic - analyzes pitch as well as peak transients.

Question 3

Which elastic audio plugin provides only rendered processing? When/why would you want to use rendered processing?

Answer 3

Xform. At the end of the process switch to this as it provides the highest quality TCE processing.

Question 4

What can the elastic audio analysis’ tempo detection determine about an audio file? What are some conditions that will cause no tempo to be detected?

Answer 4

Native tempo and duration in bars and beats. Tempo changes, single transient, rubato, no tempo, etc

Question 5

What is meant by event confidence? How can event confidence be used to eliminate false transients when applying TCE processing on elastic audio enabled tracks?

Answer 5

Relative clarity of transients. Lower event sensitivity t filter out erroneous events.

Question 6

What views are available for working with elastic audio enabled tracks?

Answer 6

Analysis view- add and remove event markers

Warp view- manually warp audio

Question 7

Name the three types of elastic audio markers. What are the differences between them?

Answer 7

Event markers - indicate events. May not display, depending on zoom level.
tempo event warp markers - diamond on top, visible only on tick based tracks,
warp markers - anchors points to the timeline

Question 8

What is a telescoping warp? How does it differ from an accordion warp? From a range warp?

Answer 8

Range warp is between two points
Accordion is on either side of a fixed point
Telescoping is on one side of a fixed point and is useful for matching the tempo of a session

Question 9

What are two ways to apply elastic audio pitch transposition?

Answer 9

Using the elastic properties window or the transpose (event operations) window.

Question 10

Elastic audio processing is provided by a special plugin processor available in which window?

Answer 10

Edit window only

Question 11

Hw can new tracks automatically have elastic audio enabled?

Answer 11

Preferences>processing>enable elastic audio on new tracks

Question 12

How can a clip be conformed to the tempo of the session?

Answer 12

Clip> conform to tempo

Or

Right click on the clip> conform to tempo

Question 13

How can new tracks be tick based by default?

Answer 13

Enable new tracks default to tick Timebases in the editing preferences page.

Question 14

How can event sensitivity be changed?

Answer 14

Clip>elastic audio properties

Question 15

How can event markers be removed?

Answer 15

Manually or by lowering event sensitivity.

Question 16

How would you go about enabling elastic audio on a track?

Answer 16

Click on the track’s elastic audio plugin selector and select the appropriate plugin.