Having issues trying to get clean pitch bends with vocals...

[CowboyClyde]

Hey all,

I've been trying to figure out how to do CLEAN vocal pitch bends.
I'm trying to mimic something in this song:


Starts at :58. Notice how he pitches way past an octave but the vocal holds the same amount of time. It doesn't become all chipmunky. It rings out and sounds clear as it moves up.

A faster example of a clean pitch bend:


Starts at 1:03ish

Here is a video of me trying to do the same thing:


First I take the phrase "Love You"
Throw it into an EXS24 and try to play the keys. As you can hear, as I move past 5-6 semitones or even try to get to one octave, the phrases last less than half a second, are inaudible, and sounds like someone scratching a record really quickly...aka sounds like shit...

How do I fix this and get clean, clear, pitch-bending vocals that hold out?

Thank you!

 

[bandcoach]

so listening again (I did listen when I fixed the links) and the only thing that I can think of is that modern samplers do not create loop points inside the sample for sustaining a note i.e. they treat everything as a 1-shot sample, which is not clever

so you may need to go in and edit your samples in whatever it is you use in fl and start adding loop points (beware of zero-crossing errors) and then try again

others might suggest that you use time-stretch/warp to do this but it is safer to add loop points to your samples and use the abilities of the sampler to play back the samples at different pitches and apply pitch bend/portamento/glides/slides as needed

 

[krushing]

Yep, sounds like it's actually just a really short snippet of a vocal that's being looped - and thus almost acts like an oscillator. I think it does become pretty "chipmunky" but it doesn't sound that bad because it's so short a sample.