![]() ![]() Perhaps try them out in the shop and see if they offer what you need. You might also look at some of the Digitech hardware offerings. Might be worth checking, though, since PowerTracks is only $50. That said, from looking at the screen shots of PowerTracks, it looks to me like perhaps a TC Helicon plugin is included - but I don't see any mention of it. The TC Helicon has probably the fewest artifacts of any I've heard.īut you need to buy either a hardware box or a powercore to get the TC Helicon sound. I've heard some things using TC Helicon that I wasn't absolutely sure just from listening that it was the Helicon (or at least I had to listen very closely to notice that it was DSP. Even the TC Helicon is going to have a tendency to sound at least a little synthetic compared to using multiple recordings of unique voices to - though if it's done well, and the harmony parts aren't super exposed. To my ears, I'd say the TC Helicon sounds - well, probably the best of the bunch. Don't forget that you've got ReaInsert, which can allow you to use the hardware and automatically compensate for the latency without a bunch of faffing about. Something to think about at least.įor *auto-generation* of vocal harmonies (at least if you are looking to do it in real time), I think this is a situation where you may want to look at hardware if you're serious about doing some of this kind of DSP harmonising. Could this be indicative of a potential pit-fall in the development process? I guess that depends to some extent on what Reaper wants to be when it grows up and what the target user community is. It could be that the reason for this is that the light-weights using Reaper are under-represented in the dialog about Reaper, and if they were expressing their opinions, Reatune would get attention before some of the features that are now being added. On the other hand, Reatune, which could stand some work has gone untouched (of course Jason might be working on it in the background). This is in part because the people asking for features are working at a very high level in very particular ways. Justin has done a lot of work lately on what I see as pro level features. So maybe a harmonizer IS a feature that pros and light-weights would both find useful. On the other hand, the availability of Reatune has proven to be a major boon to me (BTW: It really works great on horns and bass guitar) and I suspect that I would feel the same way about a good harmonizer if one were available. Pitch correction and harmonization fit the Reaper paradigm best as plugins, and they are not at the core of Reaper functionality. But it seems that this discussion is moving toward more and more narrowly defined problems and I suspect that many of the recording light-weights like me find these issues less important than a busy pro. These are obviously core Reaper functions, and are thus very important. I suppose that not all of them spend their days trying to record the next hit Indie album.Ī lot of the feature discussion lately has revolved around work-flow issues or midi functionality. Or perhaps I am thinking too narrowly of what professional recording engineers spend their time doing. So my question is whether forum folks think that a vocal auto harmonizer would be a worthwhile feature request? Maybe this has been discussed and I just missed the thread?įor various ridiculous and disgusting reasons, plugin versions of things engineers actually need are few and far between. ![]() It seems to me that ReaTune would have some of the basic coding already in place - minus formant modelling that would probably be needed. There ARE a lot of us though.īut then several other questions popped into my head: Why so few existing plugins? Difficult to code? (certainly seems to me that it would be) Little demand? (surely that wouldn't be true). (Thinking of promoting Reaper) Probably most pro-level folks shudder at the idea of using such a plug, so it would really be targeted at us amateurs. I could only find two: Melodyne (very expensive) and Akai DeccaBuddy (~ $100 US).įirst it struck me that this might be a really attractive feature to add to Reaper's set of plugs. So I did a fairly thorough check on the net for plugins that might do the job. Last night I was working on a project and decided that I would wanted to try using a vocal autoharmonizer plugin to deal with a tricky vocal passage. ![]()
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