What are vocal doubles? In vocal producing, we usually like to record two more takes on the sides panned anywhere from 50%-100% with a lead vocal or harmony vocal for a wider dimension and fullness.
Vocal Doubles
Right click on a MIDI clip or the track head, and select “Create vocal doubles” in the right-click menu to create vocal doubles. It creates 2 new tracks panned left and right down below, the contents are slightly different than the original one, including note position, note duration, consonant duration, and user pitch. This is to simulate the randomness in real singing, which avoids phase issues caused by overly similar results.
In the vocal double window, you can
- Set up the similarity with the original content. 100% represents no changes to the original one.
- The default humanization process includes the duration and position of notes and the duration of consonants
- 85% - 90% is good enough for regular needs.
- Wether to apply random effects to the user pitch.
- This will only take effect on the pitch curves that you draw. The AI-generated default pitch will not be changed by selecting this check box.
- Wether to apply random effects to the VoiceMix.
- If you haven’t blended voices on this track, you don’t need to check this box.
Why not duplicate?
If you just duplicate, the contents will be exactly the same to the original one. In this case, AI will generate the same audio result for the duplicated one, this would cause phase issues.