Voice changing software

Heath

Anyone know of software to alter ones voice ... you for those of us that would like to record lyrics but have kak voices

AlanRatcliffe

Celemony Melodyne is the industry standard for pitch correction:
www.celemony.com/

...but other than that, not much you can do aside from practice or find a vocalist.

FenderBender

Cubase does have an "autotune" feature that can raise or drop off-pitch vocals to correct pitch. Not sure if this is what you are looking for.

deanBailey

Alan Ratcliffe wrote: Celemony Melodyne is the industry standard for pitch correction:
www.celemony.com/

...but other than that, not much you can do aside from practice or find a vocalist.

+1 Melodyne Plugin is far superior in pitch correction than any autotune program (purely my opinion). I even use it on guitar's sometimes when I have players with heavy hands.

Check out the latest Melodyne ? it will blow you mind at not only fixing the note but also if you strum a chord on a guitar it seperates EVERY note that was played so you can basically manipulate the chord as you wish. eg. A major chord can be turned into a minor

AlanRatcliffe

it will blow you mind at not only fixing the note but also if you strum a chord on a guitar it seperates EVERY note that was played so you can basically manipulate the chord as you wish. eg. A major chord can be turned into a minor

I saw the demo and was blown away by that. Just the technology involved in taking a chord, separating the individual notes out of it and applying a pitch correction to one is mind-boggling. I can''t even begin to figure out how they do that.

NorioDS

I don't think Tailon is looking for pitch-correction but more of actual tone-effects. Things that actually change your voice. Tailon?

deanBailey

Hmm..well If you're maybe looking for that "Cher" effect, Melodyne can do that too, just take off the formant correct option and flatten out the pitch.

Or use a Vocoder that way you sound sorta like Cynic and you can still pitch your vocals but it will sound more robotic.

andrewjbryson

some of my favourites

Antares AutoTune - Pitch Correction
Antares Voice/ Throat Modeler - actually changes the tone/timbre of your voice by visual reconstruction of the throat and surrounding glands(eww)
Antares Mic Modeller - Record your vocal takes with a SM58, and convert the signal to a AKG C414 - this thing is kinda a gimmick but sometimes you hit a magical "conversion" , cool for going from NEW to OLD mic's , instead of the other way around.

does anybody know software that can let me do the Peter Frampton "LIKE WE DO",
its a childhood fantasy ive always had ?

Renesongs

I have spent many nights of my life tweaking and fiddling with Melodyne, Antres and others. My conclusion is that it takes less time and effort to retake and retake until your vocalist intonates correctly even if you have to go down to a syllable at a time because that what you need to do with vocal correction software anyhow.

FenderBender

andrewjbryson wrote: Antares AutoTune - Pitch Correction

This is what I used on Cubase SX a few years ago. The corrected bits have a tinny, robotic timbre, but it sounds ok in the mix if hidden stealthily behind a lead axe or keyboards ?

I agree with Rene regarding recording.

deanBailey

andrewjbryson wrote: Antares Mic Modeller - Record your vocal takes with a SM58, and convert the signal to a AKG C414 - this thing is kinda a gimmick but sometimes you hit a magical "conversion" , cool for going from NEW to OLD mic's , instead of the other way around.

I'm pretty interested to see this thing in action. It sounds pretty impossible, like taking an .mp3 and turning into a .wav expecting better quality. I don't think it's 100% faithful because the the C414 for instance will pick up a different group of frequencies compared to the 58.

The only way I can see this working is with the use of Mic Impulses that probably just alter the EQ drastically.

renesongs wrote:My conclusion is that it takes less time and effort to retake and retake until your vocalist intonates correctly

Nail on the head! That is the way with everything when doing any recording. The crazier and more advanced the technology gets the lazier engnieers and even artists are getting.

There is a misunderstanding I see happening in the studio often eg. artists are getting ready to record and whip out notes explaining how they want this on this track and want this part here, which is ok to an extent when trying to add effects or overdubs etc..but not that drastic. You should in Theory be able to play your performance 100% perfectly fine "Note-for-note" in front of someone as if an orchestra plays infront of you flawlessly. That's why almost every 16 year old kid, with one-two years on their guitar, starts a technical band and sounds perfect on the album.

The truth is that the engineer is the one that should just have to set-up very few things in the signal chain and just push record. The performance by the artist is where it's supposed to come from, not the 'studio techniques'.

I say it a lot and I know It sounds synonymous but:
"The engineer records the artist, not the Artists records for the engineer"

FenderBender

deanBailey wrote: The only way I can see this working is with the use of Mic Impulses that probably just alter the EQ drastically.

Essentially the DSP will boost and cut certain frequencies and add in compression, reverb or even distortion at high levels so that the output resembles the response of a C414 or whatever else they care to model. This is exactly the same principal as a guitar effects processor, although processing vocals could be a challenge. I'd like to give it a try.

"The engineer records the artist, not the Artists records for the engineer"

The band is just fantastic!
That is really what I think.
Oh, by the way,
Which one's pink?

AlanRatcliffe

I've got the Antares Mic Modeller around here somewhere. Cool little gimmick - nice if you treat it more as a special effect to change the character of a recorded track, but I find it is lacking as an accurate modeller, depending on the source mic. Fine if you have a U87 to start with and want to kludge it down into sounding like an SM57, but the reverse does not work anywhere near as well. The thing is, there is absolutely no way to recreate missing detail in a recorded track.

deanBailey

All these Simulation Programs are fun to play with on demo's and messing around but shouldn't be treated as a "Go-to" plugin when doing serious albums or EP's etc.

Until they invent the personal home-version Clone machine I'm nothing will ever sound/feel like the real thing.

A band is referred as an artist too being a singular.

DEO151515

hey does anyone want me to tune their vocal track for them? I'll do it for free, i have some free time and love to make crappy singers sound amazing my email is DEO151515@yahoo.com hit me up!

majestikc

Crappy singers shouldn't really be singing in the first place, whats next......jacob zuma for president?