There are many reasons why Pro-Q has become the number one choice, but the main attractions are its sound, features and beautiful display.ĭouble-clicking the spectral display creates a new EQ band, with its adjustable parameters appearing so you can easily tweak frequency, gain, EQ, plus the band's filter shape and slope. While not a dedicated vocal processor, Fabfilter's Pro-Q is one of the best EQs on the market, and every vocalist – or producer dealing with vocal recordings – needs a great EQ to tame all those frequencies around a vocal. Whatever version, Melodyne is powerful and remains an exceptional tool for manipulating audio in functional and creative ways.ĭynamic EQ implementation could be a touch more clear Melodyne 5 Studio offers the full panoply of multitrack polyphonic editing options, but, if you mainly work with monophonic material, the more affordable Melodyne 5 Assistant – see prices above – still delivers many of the essential features. Vocal pitch editing is also now incredibly natural due to features like a Levelling Macro that balances quiet and loud elements, and even the tiniest of pitch deviations can be tweaked. Recent additions include a Melodic algorithm that allows editing of noise-based sibilants to be carried out separately from pitch-based parts. And with the latest versions – there are several price bands you can buy into – integration with your DAW has never been better. You can even get in and edit polyphonic material, black magic technology that Celemony has been fine-tuning since 2009. Where Antares has made the 'Cher sound' famous with Auto-Tune, Celemony's Melodyne brings more natural tuning to vocals – and indeed, anything else. Takes some work to get the best out of it Read our full iZotope Nectar 3 Plus review With many other great features and modules plus a souped-up EQ, Nectar 3 sounds incredible and flows beautifully, and we can’t recommend it highly enough to any vocal-wrangling producer. This feature has also been enhanced for Nectar 3 Plus, the latest incarnation of Nectar. The results are invariably well-judged and thoroughly effective, giving the vocals a perceived lift that’s almost always beneficial. In Unmask mode, Vocal Assistant clears space for the vocal by applying equalisation to any other track that’s fighting with it for space. The input signal is analysed for a few seconds, during which the modules are set up in the background to correct for dynamic fluctuations, resonant peaks, sibilance, and even adjust pitch correction and reverb mix. Select Assist mode, point the algorithm in the right direction by choosing Vintage, Modern or Dialogue as the source ‘Vibes’, and Light, Moderate or Aggressive as the processing ‘Intensity’. Called Vocal Assistant, it creates a custom preset to make your vocal sound objectively ‘better’ and more mix-ready. One of Nectar 3's many highlights is a machine learning-driven system for automatically setting up the plugin based on analysis of the input signal. It utilises an array of reorderable modules to apply voice-optimised dynamics shaping, EQ, pitch correction, harmonisation, de-essing, distortion and effects to your audio. It’s become a go-to plugin for the professional producer looking to easily get vocals of all kinds – from sung and rapped to dialogue and voiceover – sounding their best. Nectar is a powerful one-stop vocal processing shop. Read the full Antares Auto-Tune Pro review You can also use the Auto-Key plugin to detect the key and scale of the audio in your track, and transmit the results to all running instances of Auto-Tune.Īdvanced view has a few extras like Create Vibrato, ideal for adding a bit of wobble via an LFO, plus options to set minor and major modes, edit across multiple octaves, and MIDI input editing features.Īuto-Tune Pro is the most powerful, usable incarnation of this standard yet, and easily maintains the software's position as one of the best retuning solutions available, and may well prove to be the ultimate pitch-manipulating toolbox. With Basic, choose a voice type, select the target key and scale, set specific pitches for removal (or leave unchanged). You also get two views: Basic and Advanced. It’s operated in either of two modes: Auto and Graph, the first enabling real-time automatic re-pitching, the latter for detailed manual editing. It can do this transparently, or with the famous ‘Cher/T-Pain’-style sudden jumps in pitch. Like all Auto-Tunes, Pro takes an incoming signal and corrects any pitching, so puts an out-of-tune singer in tune. Antares kickstarted the automatic tuning revolution with Auto-Tune back in 1997.
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