The “Flex-Tune” control reduces the amount of quantization to the nearest pitch to a certain degree, which can be useful for things such as vocal scoops which don’t always sound better when tuned to the nearest note.Īs you can see, there is a lot of flexibility within the auto mode of Antares Auto-Tune, whether you want that classic T-Pain sound or a more subtle effect. This is a pleasant quality of a natural voice that can get tamed or completely removed by the software. “Natural Vibrato” is pretty self-explanatory, as it allows you to preserve more vibrato in a vocal. Without this, things can get a little robotic (but maybe this is what you want!). The “Humanize” function allows for slight adjustment of the retune speed to make notes sound more natural. In addition to this control, there is also a “Humanize”, “Flex-Tune” and “Natural Vibrato” control if you are looking to get a more subtle sound from this plugin. Setting this at 0 ms will make it respond incredibly fast and give you that “T-Pain” style sound, but for a more natural sound, setting it to 20-30 ms often works great. Like most tuning plug-ins, there is a retune speed control, which adjusts how quickly Auto-Tune will respond to your source audio.
They can do all the jobs! If you have the flexibility to use all of them, you can choose what is best for you and what is best in a specific situation. They’re all really good for multiple different instances. Bear in mind this was 5 years ago, so both of these programs may encompass that now! Waves Tune immediately found that note in the super growly vocal and was able to fix it. I tried Auto-Tune, but there was so much growl in his voice that it barely had a note- same thing with Melodyne. I was working on a rock album with Mike Clink (Producer of Guns N’ Roses)- he had a performance of a singer with a super growly voice that had a few instances that needed fixed. I’ve found that Waves Tune’s algorithm is particularly good on rock vocalists that have a lot of grit. It’s my choice to use Auto-Tune for this, but of course Melodyne does that as well. This works especially well when I love the tonality of the singer. I can use it to tuck the vocal into the note I want it to be. I use it to fix vocals in a graphical mode- it allows me to see any elements out of tune in a whole vocal performance, and adjust the single piece of vocal that went out. You can see the scale and you can grab those blocks, move them up to the next note and build a harmony from the original.Īuto-Tune is the one I use predominately. It’s also quick and easy to use for building harmonies.
For a one-size-fits-all, Melodyne is pretty amazing. Once they’ve identified the key they’ll quickly use it to fix any tuning issues. A lot of my friends who are engineers but not musicians love Melodyne. It has the ability where you can collect the blocks and push them up! It’s really super quick to do. Melodyne has a functionality which I believe is second to none in its ease of use. I’ll tell you what I like about each of them.