A precaution regarding OB-Tune...
Although OB-Tune does offer the same algorithm as Autotune, I believe it only offers Autotune's "automatic" mode. My experience has been that Autotune rarely gives me the desired results when used in automatic mode.
I find that Autotune is quite amazing in graphical mode - as you can
draw in where the corrections occur and what notes they should be corrected to. I find that in singing that many (most?) singers acutally slide to many of their note changes. The slide is generally fine and sounds natural. Using graphical mode you can correct only at the point where the slide ends (and insure it ends on the proper note
) rather than trying to "pull" the entire slide to the "corrected" note
Automatic mode generally "guesses" at the correct note (although you tell it the key of the song). I find it doesn't always guess right, and even when it does guess right, I can frequently *hear* the correction (i.e., it doesn't quite sound natural).
I've never used OB-Tune, so I'm only speaking from reading the specs. But based on the fact that it only offers the automatic mode and my experience with auto mode in Autotune has been less than desirable, I would tend to shy away from it. However, there is always the $49 price versus $300 or so.
BTW, AlChuck, I'd been thinking of changing my name to DavidK, but for now I'm gonna leave it as dachay2tnr.