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Pitch n Time PT vs Fairlight

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Pitch 'n Time Pro
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Ortofon | Serato S-120
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Ba 12:15 PM - 18 August, 2006
Hi,
I own pitch n time in Protools (7.1) and in Fairlight.
But the pitch n time in Fairlight is so much better, that in PT sounds (excuse me) horrible compared to that in Fairlight.
I tried it with same file and same Settings and always the Fairlight sounds much more natural. (For example i stretch often, for pub, some Voice with 88% and it sounds great in Fairlight, in PT i stretch it with 95% and i already hear thats its stretched)

How is that possible?
Serato
dave 7:48 PM - 18 August, 2006
Hi Ba,

That's interesting!

What version of Pitch 'n Time are you using?

How did you get Pitch 'n Time for Fairlight?

- Dave
Oliver M 9:55 PM - 19 August, 2006
I would like to know this, too. I may buy a Fairlight after all. Who knows... ;-)


Oliver
Ba 8:45 AM - 21 August, 2006
Hi,
I use in ProTools version 2.2.3, in Fairlight i dont know the version, its an older one i think, cause we have 3 Fairlight Systems (2 QDCs and 1 MFX3plus) and i always had Serato in one QDC for years already, and now before 6 months i bought also one for the second QDC.

I got it from Fairlight Australia. But like i understood it, the Serato is directly installed and integrated (its no Plug In,its just the alogrithm, i still use the GUI of Fairlight) in Fairlight , cause i just needed to activate and register it, i bought just an activation code.

BA
Oliver M 9:07 PM - 25 August, 2006
Ba, there is no Pitch 'n Time for Fairlight, never was. You must be getting mixed up with something else. ;-)


Oliver
Ba 1:12 PM - 27 August, 2006
Hi Oliver,

In Fairlight it is not named Pitch n Time ,its an algorithm from Serato its named Serato Time Sculpture (Thanks Dave) , its like the Pitch n Time LE for Logic, just for Fairlight. It duses the GUI from Fairlight

BA
Oliver M 9:07 AM - 28 August, 2006
Aaah, ok then. Thanks for the clarification.


Oliver
Peteg 8:43 AM - 27 September, 2006
Quote:
Hi,
I own pitch n time in Protools (7.1) and in Fairlight.
But the pitch n time in Fairlight is so much better, that in PT sounds (excuse me) horrible compared to that in Fairlight.
How is that possible?


Ah, somebody else has found this! I used to have a 32 track Fairlight QDC with the Serato option that I used to use for dialogue editing and the timestretch was fantastic, miles better than anything else I've ever used before or since. When I moved to ProTools I saw the snazzy interface you get for P and T and thought "Great!" but it's awful on dialogue (great for music but I don't do that!), goes all phasey and robotic sounding. I'm stuck using the Digi timestretch which is ok but not great. Is there any chance a Dialogue setting will be implemented that resurrects the quality I had on the Fairlight?

Thanks,
Pete
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dave 5:41 AM - 15 May, 2007
We've listened, and have added a vocal mode to Pitch 'n Time Pro 2.4. Download a free update here -> serato.com