LAB EIGHT USING AUDITION

TASK: ABSTRACTING TEXT

Setting Up the Session

In a new session, import track 59 Dr. King from the

Soundscapes and Sound Materials CD.

Place Dr. King into track one at time zero. Listen to the clip.

Separate the first three phrases into clips. Discard the

remaining text.

The first clip should contain Now I believe the words of Dr.
King (yeah); this will be referred to below as Believe.

The second clip should contain If I helped somebody (yeah);

this will be referred to below as Help.

The third clip should contain As I travel on (yeah); this will

be referred to below as Travel.

The three clips as they should now look.

Processing Text

Make a unique copy of the first clip, Believe, then reverse

this new clip by double clicking on it to enter Edit View.
Select All, then choose the Reverse process from the Effect
menu.
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Selecting a clip, then selecting Reverse as the process

Make a unique copy of the third clip, Travel, and pitch shift
it down three semitones. Use the Stretch process, making sure
the Pitch Shift is selected.

Selecting a clip, then selecting Stretch as process. Shifting

down 3 semitones, and making Pitch Shift is set.

TASK: COMBINING SIMILAR TRANSFORMATIONSDIRECTION

Process the File

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Create a clip (Ctrl+K) for each of the separate smashes.

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Drag the extra material (the silences between the smashes)

into Track 2. Select them all (double click on an empty part of
track two), then select Remove Clips from the Edit menu.

Select all the clips in Track 1, then control-drag them to Track

2 to create unique regions.

Double click on the first clip to bring it into Edit View, select
Reverse from the Effects menu.

Return to Multitrack View. Double click on the next clip.

Since reverse was the last command you did, you should be
able to press F2 (Function key 2) to redo the reversal on this
clip. Do this for the remain clips in Track 2.

Five clips, and five unique copies of each clip in track two,
which are all reversed.

Drag one of the reversed clips into a clear track. Create a

unique copy of its forward version (it should be directly above
in Track 1), and place it immediately following the reversed
version

A reversed sound object, immediately followed by a unique

copy of its forward version.
Combining Processes

Double click on the forward clip to bring it into Edit View.

Pitch shift it down seven semitones using Pitch Bender (this
process does not do time correction, so the result will be
longer in duration). Change the Range in the Pitch Bender
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window to 7 semitones, and drag the breakpoints to the

bottom of the window.

Pitch shifting a selected clip by seven semitones

Still in Edit View, add an extra two seconds to the clip by

placing the cursor at the end of the clip and selecting
Silence from the Generate menu enter 2 seconds.

Select the entire clip (Ctrl+A), and use the Studio Reverb
process from the Delay Effects submenu within the Effects
menu.

Adding reverb to a selected clip

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The reversed clip, followed by the pitch-shifted, reverberated

clip

TASK: COMBINING SIMILAR TRANSFORMATIONSTRANSPOSITION

After importing the earlier file mixdown,

Make five unique copies of the mixdown, and place them in

successive tracks, all starting at time zero.

Select each clip, and Duplicate it (Edit menu, Clip Duplicate)

one time each (Repetitions 1 time). This will place a copy
butt-end against the previous one.

Create a unique and slowly evolving volume automation

envelope for each track.

Combining the same process with different settings to create a

dynamically varying gesture.

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TASK: CREATING AND VARYING A RHYTHMIC LOOP

Setting Up the Session
After importing Tracks 39 and 47 (Chisel and Wrapping
Machine) into a new session:

Drag Chisel into the first track, and zoom in to display the first
three seconds.

Highlighting the first four rhythmic in the Chisel clip.

Select four events for a potential loop.

Select Play Looped from the transport controls.

Play Looped will continuously play the current selection.

Moving the selection: use the Selection Tool, and shift-drag to

change the start and end points

Watch the Selection area to make sure that the selections

Length (duration) stays the same.

The Selection area in Audition

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From this selection, create a clip using Split from the Edit
menu, and drag it down to the next track. Remove the extra
clips in track 1.

Use the Clip Duplicate command to create ten copies of these

clips, all with no gaps.

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Changing One Element in the Loop

Select the fourth clip in the track, and make a unique copy of it
in the next track. Switch it with the clip you originally copied,
so that it replaces it in the loop.

Place this new clip into Edit View, and use Stretch from the
Effects menu to transpose it down one semitone (1 b). Make
sure Pitch Shift is selected.

Pitch shifting a selected clip in the loop

Adding an Accent

Select the third clip in the track, and make a unique copy of it
in the next track at the exact same time location.

Adding a clip to the same time location in another track.

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Double click on this click to enter Edit View, then use Stretch
to drop it down twelve semitones, or one octave. Again, make
sure Pitch Shift is selected.

Processing an adjacent clip.

Beat Matching

Select the Wrapping Machine loop, and choose Time

Compression/ Expansion from the AudioSuite plug-ins.

Enter the length of the first loop clip in the Length box. In my
case, the length was 1.314 seconds.

Parameter settings for matching the duration of the second clip

to the first.
The plug-in will calculate the expansion ratio. In my case, it
ended up being 125.674.
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Click on the OK button, making sure that Time Stretch is

selected.
The two tracks should now have clips of identical lengths.

The lower clip is time-expanded to match the upper.

Use the Clip Duplicate command to make 10 copies of this

clip in the track.

Create an interesting volume automation relationship between

the two tracks. Here is one simple example:

A dynamic, rhythm-based relationship between two beatmatched tracks.

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