Laurie: You can never do better than actually singing a part multiple times. I always double and sometimes tripple my background vocals the old-fashioned way. Some of the new and very sophisticated voice processors now have algorithms that more closely simulate the kind of give and take that goes on when singers do multiple parts. Gord ----- Original Message ----- From: Laurie Simpson To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 5:52 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Another Sonar puzzle. Gordon and Chris, Thanks for your suggestions. Yes, while awaiting any responses I discovered the use of the nudge in this case. But my husband doesn't like the effect. He says it still sounds too synthetic to him. Since this is a piece he has written, I told him that he has to try singing it again along with the first vocal track. Hopefully this will give him the more natural sound he wants. Thanks again! Guess I should have explored a bit more before posting but it took a while for the nudge idea to occur to me. Thanks again! Laurie -----Original Message----- From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gordon Kent Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 5:24 PM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Another Sonar puzzle. Laurie: Are you using sonar 4? You can copy the vocal track to another track but don't link clips. Then nudge one a bit after the other. You can use the slide function if you aren't using sonar 4, but nudge is really great for this sort of thing. Gord ----- Original Message ----- From: Laurie Simpson To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 4:22 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Another Sonar puzzle. Hi guys, I'm hoping someone out there has tried this in Sonar. I have a male vocal track. I want to duplicate it so that it sounds like four monks singing in unison in a cathedral. How can I do this in Sonar, or, can I do this in Sonar? If not, is there any way to do this? I've tried the chorus effect in Sonar and in Sound Forge, too synthetic. I tried exporting the vocal track and then importing it to a different track. Both tracks played together sound like one single voice, only a bit louder. Tried cloning the track, same result. Tried bounce to track bouncing the original track to a new one, same result. Any way to do this? Thanks! Laurie