The way you choose to interact with Revoice Pro 4.2 can make it feel like a plug-in anyway.įrom within Pro Tools (my DAW of choice), three AudioSuite plug-ins route audio in and out of Revoice Pro 4.2: Quick APT, Quick Doubler, and Link. After a long period of resisting leaving my DAW to do a specific task, I have come to appreciate this type of round-trip external work it gives your computer processing advantages, as well as a much easier visual experience. Revoice Pro 4.2 is a standalone application, though if you want to, you can interact with it more as if it were a plug-in. You can, of course, create your own presets as well. There are presets aimed for post production folks called Dialog, and others more oriented toward musical applications are intuitively called Music. There are numerous Process presets with varying degrees of tuned-ness and tightness. The way you manipulate audio is with the Process window, applying processes to selected audio, and then having the results appear as new audio tracks. The central concept of Revoice Pro 4.2 is called Audio Performance Transfer (APT). Tweak 64 tracks of backing vocals? Sure, piece of cake! Can I make a lead vocal double? Yep, give me thirty seconds! You can cleanly, and without artifacts, tune and time a vocal, then share that tuning and timing (plus the performance’s energy) with other vocal tracks – automatically, and in a few seconds.

Let’s repeat those abilities again because it’s too easy to gloss over the power you have at your disposal here. It’s the holy grail for backing vocals although that description is far too limited since you can use it on lead vocals and instruments as well.

A few years ago Synchro Arts made a spinoff of VocAlign, christened it Revoice Pro, and added the ability to tune vocals enabling one track to impose its timing and tuning on other tracks. One of the only positives about the coronavirus lockdown has been having time to learn some new skills – or in my case, take a fresh look at an old friend. VocAlign saved me thousands of hours worth of tedium, and that’s not an exaggeration. I bought it and used it to pocket many a stacked set of backing vocals on countless pop songs. Soon, using it on music was added to the demo – there was a weak rap vocal with a big burly doubled voice added convincingly underneath. At first, it was demoed doing dialog replacement perfectly replacing messy on-location sound with nice clean studio-recorded voices. Years ago, while wandering around NAMM or AES looking for new plug-ins that could do something cool and unique, I could always count on seeing the people from Synchro Arts showing off their unique plug-in VocAlign, which could take one vocal’s timing and impart it to another.

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