So how good is the pitch correction

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If I'm serious about it am I better off getting a Melodyne package or is the Reaper plugin good enough? I really just plan on tweaking vocals.
 
There is one really easy way of finding this out. Try it, and see what you think.
 
What are you trying to correct - someone who can't sing a note in key or tweaking a couple of stray notes?
 
I'm kinda curious on how well it works. I don't really have a need for it since I record instrumental music, but I'm just wondering how effective it is. I suppose I could try it on a stray guitar note or something.
 
I had no idea reaper had a free autotune, awsome, hopefully I wont need to use it very often anyway
 
It's pretty good, but it takes some tweaking. You have to make several passes using the different settings to see which one will work best for you. And that depends on what computer specs are, how off the note is. It's fairly seamless, and unlike AutoTune, you can't really hear it attacking, but it all depends on what you are trying to do with it. It can't make magic, but for the occasional bad note, it will work. Vocal ticks, throat clearing, the old 'frog in the throat', it won't fix.
 
I have no experience with Reaper vocal pitch correction software. I do however own Melodyne. Melodyne is kind of a pain in the ass to use, as it is a program outside of your DAW. I only use it when extreme, or translucent pitch correction is needed. The pitch correction in Cubase (what I use) is usually good enough for small corrections.

Is it worth the money? Well, yeah, maybe. But only if your software's pitch correction isn't working for you. I only have it as a recourse for when my built in software does not work. I have used it maybe 2 times this year.
 
Just finished a full length album for a local songwriting group, and Reatune is all over the vocals. Worked fantastically for me once I did a little "experimenting" with attack times and different algorithms. You have to enter the key (of course) for the song...and actually check "autocorrect" pitch to have it work throughout. For this project, it was the bees knees. Never sounded artificial, and I would bet that noone even knows that an "autotune" plug was used on the album.
 
I jsut used ReaTune on a new song I've been mixing. Wasn't happy with my vocals at all (that's not unusual), and various things I tried EQ, reverb, compression, preamp, didn't help, so I threw ReaTune on, using the Solo 1 Elastique preset, setting the key, of course. I think it helped. :cool: Now I'm going to go back to some other tunes I've had 'finished' and see if ReaTune helps my vocals on those. Maybe slight pitchiness correction will do it.
 
I've thrown it into a few mixes now to see when it sounds ok and when it doesn't . You can definitely hear it kick in if the attack time is too short. The different algorithms didn't seem to change much - either it worked well or like crap. One time I used it, it made the sung held notes warble up and down, although that wasn't noticeable on the short notes.
 
Vhyle said:
I'm kinda curious on how well it works. I don't really have a need for it since I record instrumental music, but I'm just wondering how effective it is. I suppose I could try it on a stray guitar note or something.
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Usually pitch correction devices are designed for vocals, are you trying to fix your performance or do something experimental?
 
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