Serious V-Vocal questions.

Serious Answers:
 
[PITCH]
 
1) The best way to start working with pitch is to focus on the horizontal WHITE lines.  These are the pitch "centers" that V-Vocal has detected.  Hover over the line and you should see your cursor change to an up/down arrow.  When this happens, left-click once.  At this point, just sit back and appreciate the magic.  You will see the whole detected note highlighted.  This will save you tons of time selecting by trial and error.  Now go back the same way and grab that white line, and now drag it up and down.  This is how you move the pitch of the whole detected note.  While you're at it, take a look at the tool selector on the left.  You have choices of center pitch, vibrato (sinewave), eraser, etc.  TBH, the only ones I ever use are the pitch and vibrato.  Select the vibrato tool, and now do the same hover-and-drag move with that tool.  Now you can control the vibrato amount of the entire note, and naturally.  To change the pitch/vibrato of a piece of a note, go to an open area of the screen and drag across (left to right). This will highlight the time span of your change. Now repeat the hover-and-drag operation. Voila'.
 
2) What you're seeing are the effects of vertical and horizontal zoom.  When I create a V-Vocal clip and the editor window opens, the first things I do are maximize the editor window (in my case, on a second monitor), then I hit Shift-F.  Try it, you'll like it.  If you need finer control over Zoom, just search for the Zoom controls in teh V-Vocal help.
 
 

Ok. After reading this, and playing with it, I got it. One of the things that confused me was that initially, I couldn't make the <|> things appear. Then I realized your cursor has to be in the relative middle of the screen. Not very intuitive, but now that I have it, I'm good. Thanks again.

Yes, you can!
read this: V-Vocal info From Scott Garrigus

Look for it in the pdf manual , or the online help. Adjust the dials to taste.

Is there any way to automate this process of forcing your vocals to equal or approximate the pure notes as defined by specific frequencies?

Yes, but avoid the temptation to do so if you want your edits to sound natural.

You need to listen to the original performance CAREFULLY and decide which notes are audibly flat/sharp and ONLY correct those - and even then, DON'T align them to the exact pitch.

No singer in the world will land dead on the "correct" pitch so as Bitflipper say quite rightly - tread carefully, otherwise you'll end up with that dreadful Cher effect.

1 - Nope
2 - Depends. I am fortunate enough to have a system that can cope with 60+ live, unbounced clips on the go in a project, yet other people have instability problems with just 1 or 2. Experiment. see what works for YOU
3 - Probably, though in my opinion, you'll get better results from not using the auto correct facility and doing it manually

I have my V-Vocal set up how I want it, but there are occasional random noises on the clip in between the vocals which I need to remove.

I can achieve this reasonably well by setting a Volume envelope.
If I try to bounce to clip, however, to explore other options, I get a circle with a red line through it after the bounce and a Fade In is applied which I don't seem to be able to adjust.  Have tried several times and keep getting these results.

Any idea what's wrong or how to fix it?

mosk


2 more VVocal questions:

1) Do you need to Bounce the VVocal to Clip before applying any audio effects (like VX64 Vocal Strip)?

MHO: YES!  V-Vocal uses serious system resources.  I always bounce to clip when I'm satisfied with the edit.

2) Do you need to bounce VVocal (or other effects) to clip before Exporting Audion to a WAV file 

Audion?  Hmm... I consider V-Vocal a special case and *always* bounce to clip b4 doing anything else.