popping and clicking when I apply pitch shifter to vocal clips in Audition 2019

[elizabethm27435297]

Hello,

When I speed up my vocal tracks via pitch shifter or stretch in the multi-track there is often popping or clicking occurring during playback. This only occurs in the multi-track not in the waveform.

Any advice on how to get rid of this distortion?

thank you,

Elizabeth Marlow

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

Are you doing this in real time, or rendered mode? It always works much better in rendered...

[elizabethm27435297]

Hi, Rendered mode definitely helps but I still get some popping and
clicking when I apply other effects, even with rendered mode on. Any
suggestions?
thank you SO much for help

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

The other thing you should do, especially if there are other effects on it, is to pre-render the whole track:

So that's the little green lightning bolt. You can always undo this if you change your mind about anything, but what it does is to preprocess everything on the track before attempting to play it - which invariably makes things smoother, especially if you have any heavy-lifting effects like Full Reverb added.

[elizabethm27435297]

hi! thanks so much for your quick response. Pre-rendering the entire track
definitely helped. Should I leave the "rendered" option on in each clip or
turn it off when the lightening bolt is on. I will experiment with this as
well.
thank you again so much!
Elizabeth Marlow

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

In the absence of any information to the contrary, I'd leave them both turned on.

[elizabethm27435297]

will do! thank you again, Steve!