Dimension Pro out of tune by 1/4 to 1/2 step w/ "ahh male or ahh female chorus"

they should bundle a copy of Melodyne with DP

classic



if you have DP it's easy to check.


:-)

titusgroan1

slartabartfast


I doubt the patch/sample is off by that much.

It definitely is. The female vocal patch is unusable.

Exactly, if it was 1/2 step off one could work around it but it's a little under 1/2 step.
Some of the bass guitars are off too but these are know issues to CW.

I can't check it with my tuner because it has some phasing or chorus. However, checking it against my hardware synth, its close to 1/2 step off. Try transposing the track down a 1/2 step.

That is pretty bad.

root,

If you audio device says 44.1 (or 48.1) and if it says the same thing in the bottom of the SONAR window... and that agrees with the settings in your Audio setup... then it's probably just that you are discovering what many of us have been disappointed with.

I used Melodyne to repair a few Dimension tracks once and have never launched it since.

You certainly don't want to start a song with Dimension Pro... because then you are trapped. If you use it for a overdub you'll probably notice and issue right away. It's when you write from scratch in Dim pro that you get caught thinking it sounds good while it's really out of tune.

Some folks say that makes it seem more realistic.

bummer.

best,
mike

slarta,

I also tested this on my older Sonar7 Pro machine and the 1st the male vocal was OK, unlike the 1st review on my new set up. The female aah chorus I doulbed and then transposed an octave sounded flat - I mean not just a little but enuf to be obnoxiously rugged to stand. In other words it was unusable. So it's probably that Dim pro just sucks when it comes to vocal pitch intonation. It's does still have a lot of other usable features.

I can't explain why the pitch has changed and the way it did on my new computer either. That's why I'm posting this thread. To find out why. I called Cake support and Seth says he was unaware of this problem in Dimension Pro. I'll be calling them too just in case I have any settings wrong on both computers.

I'm also having a problem working with video editing in 8.5.2. I'm getting a error message when I reopen the video project (.mov to be exact) that says "unable to open playback device. Device may not support the current projects audio format....."

I called Echo after Cake reps said it's not Sonar's fault. Echo says it's related to Win 7 in that Win 7 doesn't allow the sample rate to be locked.....or something like that....I called ADK and we tried changing the drivers to wdm but that didn't work. They are going to try again tomorrow.

Time will tell. 

There have been many complaints about Dim Pro having pitch problems (mostly about bass patches)...Perhaps in the "soon to be released" update to 8.5.3 the "bakers" will address this...

Look at it this way, if they dump it, hopefully the replacement will be glitch free and therefore a little better.

As far as the vocal replacement, I found a few free mellotron imitation plugins that work fine...... if you learn how to tweek their available range, attack, delay, sustain & reverb parameters. I also found some cool mini moog plugins as well during the searches.

It makes me ticked that Cake techs play dumb when you ask if they've heard any previous complaints.

Ha! So I'm not losing my mind. I thought some of those bass sounds were out of tune! I honestly hadn't heard this before, though.

Steve

Hey beachy,

This intonation problem happens even when Sonar is the only app running according to my task manager - I have an Echo Layla 3G for the record.

Does anybody else still get the out of tune patches w/out other apps running?

Thanks for the heads up on the problem being thru out the plug patches...

I don't think task manager sees clocking issues!  So you may want to go to control panel/sound manager and make sure nothing is looming there!

Good luck!  do you have your onboard audio switched off in your bios?