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Working with tonal vs. nontonal sounds

Working with tonal vs. nontonal sounds

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Working with tonal vs. nontonal sounds

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- In this movie, we'll use Audition's handy Pitch Display to identity and correct a tonal conflict for a sound effect. Sound effects can fall into two categories: tonal and atonal. Effects likes "whooshes", which we've been using a lot, are considered atonal. They do not have a perceived fundamental tone or pitch. Listen to Production Element title Transition Whoosh Short 11 and you'll hear (whoosh sound) There's no real fundamental tone or pitch. On the other hand, if we listen to this clip here, Production Element title Transition Logo 8, I'll go ahead and solo it, we do hear a fundamental pitch going on, a couple pitches, and this would be considered a tonal sound effect. Let's take a listen. (tonal sound effect) So if you have a good ear, you'll hear some musical notes there. Even if you don't, I wanna show you a way where you can actually look at pitch visually in Audition. If I go ahead and double-click on this clip to open up the Waveform Editor, first of all, in the normal…

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