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| Fragile Jar-Jar Czar Member Since: Sep 30, 2009 ![]() |
Mar 04, 2010 01:24 pm I'm thinking about purchasing an autotune plug in. Antares seems to be the only one i've seen. I can see myself in the future using it as a noticeable effect for maybe a sort of soft bubbly electronic genre (ie owl city). But the reason i'm actually considering a purchase is just as a way to clean up my vocals with less takes. I'm certainly not a BAD singer. But i do have quite a few pitch issues. Partly my ears fault (again, i've got decent ears but not great. Tuning a guitar is one thing, keeping vocals in key is another). And its partly just, eh. I keep myself pretty busy. I'm tackeling quite a few things musically. And i just don't have the drive to do all the voice exercises i should be doing that my instructor has shown me. So anyway. My real question is, has anyone here used autotune plug ins extensively enough to know if they're useful enough for the money? There's that G-Snap free plug. How much of a step is Antares over G-Snap? The plug in is only 100-150$, so its not too expensive by any means. I'm really expecting to do numerous takes getting as close as i physically can to perfect, and then autotune magically fixing like 90% of my noticable errors. |
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| pjk Prince CZAR-ming Member Since: Apr 08, 2004 ![]() |
Mar 04, 2010 01:44 pm Not much help on AT vs GS, but there's also melodyne to consider. I think it's used by a few on here with good results. |
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| Fragile Jar-Jar Czar Member Since: Sep 30, 2009 ![]() |
Mar 04, 2010 01:54 pm I'll be sure to go on a free VST downloading spree shortly, and see if i get better results with melodyne. I wasn't a big fan of G-Snap. I didn't really notice it on subtle settings. And it didn't seem to do the heavy use particularly well either. Though i'll admit, i didn't really give it a fair chance. Just sorta played around with it for half an hour. Also, i see AT packaged a few other programs in a "vocal suite" for harmonies and a "double tracking" sort of thing. Anyone here use these before? I'm starting to get pretty excited about this, which isn't a good thing lol. My judgment is easily impaired when it comes to the prospect of buying new gear. Its such a good feeling to get new gear lol. But idk, i've experimented double tracking a bit, and i'm almost certain the chorus's to many songs on one of my favorite albums are double tracked at least in certain parts (there's just something incredibly lively to them). But currently, i'm not experienced enough to do a good enough job with it. So the plug-ins may help. Ahhhh. New gear always does this to me lol. Its all i can think about at the moment. |
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| zekthedeadcow Eat Spam before it eats YOU!!! Member Since: May 11, 2002 ![]() |
Mar 04, 2010 05:36 pm though it's still early in development (0.1) there is Autotalent www.olilarkin.co.uk/index.php?p=freeplugins#at |
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| crux Typo Szar Member Since: Jul 04, 2002 ![]() |
Mar 04, 2010 10:10 pm I havent tried the latest Autotunes yet, the last one i tried was years ago so i dont know how far they've gone but the melody correction from Waves, i forget wat its caled, is killer. Its alot like melodyne but its a VST plug so u dont have to go to another program, lots of function and all that. I dont know if its better, but it definitely does the job and its the latest pitch correction software ive used. |
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| olddog Whatever. Member Since: Jul 02, 2003 ![]() |
Mar 05, 2010 12:45 am Of the ones I've used Melodyne Editor (VST plugin) has been the best and easiest to use. In addition to pitch correction, you can create harmonies with it as well as even separate and edit the notes from poly material such as a guitar. You can alter pitch farther without sounding like a chipmunk or other artifacts than any thing else I've tried. It is a bit on the buggy side since it's the first release of the new Editor that includes DNA (poly detection) and it's not cheap, but you can definitley do alot with it. Dan |
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| Tadpui I am not a crook's head Member Since: Mar 14, 2003 ![]() |
Mar 05, 2010 10:16 am Yeah, I remember when BeerHunter did a spot on his blog about Melodyne and it blew me away. they had just introduced the polyphony detection, where you could correct just one note out of a full 6-string chord on a guitar, change a minor chord into a major chord, things like that. Totally amazing. Antares still probably rules the roost when it comes to straight-up pitch-correcting vocals, but that Melodyne is a seriously powerful pitch editor. I'm afraid to know what either costs though, since I haven't ever really been in the market for it. I have no delusions that my vocals are out of tune, nor that many people outside of this site or my family will ever hear them :-) |
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| Quincysan No brown M&M's Contributor Since: Nov 11, 2007 ![]() |
Mar 05, 2010 04:04 pm Man oh man, Melodyne is GREAT for those subtle changes. Never tried Melodyne as an effect so I can't comment on how well that works. Here's a link to the demo: www.celemony.com/cms/inde...%2582%25D1%259A They have great tutorials on youtube too! |
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| Quincysan No brown M&M's Contributor Since: Nov 11, 2007 ![]() |
Mar 05, 2010 04:04 pm I think Melodyne can be had for ~$200 |
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| Fragile Jar-Jar Czar Member Since: Sep 30, 2009 ![]() |
Mar 05, 2010 04:34 pm Hmm. free trials. I forgot companys did that. Looks like anteres does too. Well, might as well download and compare :] Polyphonic manipulation. That is cool. |
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| pipedreams Member Since: Oct 01, 2009 ![]() |
Mar 08, 2010 10:32 pm I've messed around with Melodyne on my friends pc (full version), it's pretty sweet. I dl the demo the other day T-pain style |
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| Geoff stupidity should be painful ! Contributor Since: Jun 20, 2002 ![]() |
Mar 11, 2010 12:09 am I have autotune and have rarly used it to be honest. I end up doing it the hard way, with practice and take after take. as for an effect I havn't used it , i don't care for the whole vocorder effect and i try and talk anyone out of it. I have used the waves pitch correcting plug in (slightly) and it works well, for that almost spot on vocal take that you hate to trash except for that one part type of thing. Sometimes a not so perfect take is what you need. |
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