There's an even deeper rabbit hole we've yet to venture down, which concerns harmonic content, instruments, the Audioshop and Note Editor. This works so well that you wonder why the option exists under the Effects menu. You have far more control, you can apply volume and panning changes, offset it slightly and make use of the remarkable Draw Pitch tool to add slight variations to the pitch so the harmony sounds different to the original. It's the same deal with all the Effects: they all do what they say on the tin but there's no control over how much, other than the odd up and down button to add more or less volume, reverb, vibrato and so on.įor harmony-related editing, it's much better to select what you're trying to harmonise, duplicate it using copy and paste, and move the newly created notes up and down in the main screen.
As these are generated at playback, the extra part is not shown on screen nor does it have a control panel, GUI or options, so you can't alter the volume or any other aspect of it other than shifting it up and down an octave. Working with my vocal track, the Harmony effect throws in a very convincing pitch-shifted second part. These are Harmony, Quantize, Correct, Flatten and Slide Pitch, Vibrato, Shift Formant, Volume, Panning and Reverb. Under the Effects menu we have 10 mostly pitch-related processes that can be applied to the currently selected notes. A Cancel button or the ability to not save your changes would be beneficial. When I pointed this out to Martin he created a 'Save copy as.' option, which helps, but with all the subtle changes possible, it can be very difficult to work out if you've undone everything.
It automatically saves and overwrites itself, so any messing about you've done is written over the Rip, and there's no way back unless you keep clicking Undo until you've got back to where you want to be (if you can remember what that was). That's a good point to make at this juncture: Infinity is very destructive.
The Effects are in fact RipScripts but these particular ones are a little bit special because they are applied at the playback/rendering stage so they can be turned on and off, whereas RipScripts are applied directly to the stored notes and would have to be undone. Infinity has two main menus: Effects and RipScripts. Sure, I can correct the pitch and all that jazz, but let's move onto things that other software can't do. Let's rip a vocal track and see what else is possible.
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