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Old 29th July 2010   #21
DaVinci
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Originally Posted by konkaos View Post
May not be your cup of tea but many of your famous "auto-tune effect" artists prefer to track thru the plug-in in HD. They track thru it to get maximum effect of the grab, hold, and slide of the plug with their voice. Other than that and a few other special fx, I don't see the need to track thru plugs when you can monitor thru them.

If I choose a sample rate, and bit depth, and record my voice at, say, 44.1k, 24 bit, the string of ones and zeros leaving the A/D converter, entering your rig, and hitting your DIGITAL autotune plugin is literally, exactly, perfectly identical to the string of ones and zeros coming back off your hard drive should you choose to trigger the plugin later.... non-destructively.

Anyone who tracks through a digital ITB effect is doing so for one reason only... they are misinformed.
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