Vox Samples releases Vox Tune Auto Pitch, a free autotune plugin for macOS and Windows.
Most readers who follow BPB’s news section have heard of Vox Samples by now. The developer regularly offers free plugins alongside its paid products. This time, they released Vox Tune Auto Pitch, a free pitch correction plugin for macOS and Windows.
One of the things that all Vox Samples plugins have in common is that they all have playfully descriptive names and imagery.
For example, there’s the Silent Ninja noise suppressor, complete with a shinobi-esque ninja on the GUI (who remembers Sega’s Shinobi?).
Or there’s Drift Pitch, a free vibrato effect, complete with a drift car on the GUI.
Now, we have Vox Tune, a free auto-pitch plugin with a similarly playful interface. I’m mentioning the playful design of these plugins because it generates some discussion among current or would-be users.
The plugins share some more important traits: they do exactly what it says on the tin and are easy to use.
Vox Tune is a free alternative to costly plugins like Antares Auto-Tune. It’s one of many alternatives; there are freebies like Voloco and relatively budget-friendly options like Waves Tune Real-Time ($199, but is eternally on sale for $39.99, or so it seems).
It’s unlikely that a freebie will provide the depth of features offered by Antares, but what you get from Vox Tune is a quick and easy way to fix slightly off vocals or create the hard pitch correction vocal style made famous by artists like T-Pain.
The plugin has just a few simple controls; Key and Scale knobs to set desired pitch/sound and the Smooth knob to adjust the harshness of the pitch correction.
The smoother the correction, the more natural it will sound, and going the other way takes you closer to the T-Pain effect mentioned above. Vox Samples recommends setting the Smooth knob to 20% and above for natural-sounding tuning.
The keyboard below the controls displays the notes in play (determined by the Key/Scale settings). You can use the keyboard to edit individual notes.
Vox Tune is a mono plugin and works best on clean mono vocal recordings, but you can use the L/R switch at the bottom right corner to select the channel you want to tune if you have a stereo track.
Big thank you to BPB reader Numanoid for the info on Vox Tune.
If you’re thinking, what if I’m working with an absolutely terrible singer? Don’t worry; load up Vox Tune, make sure you have the Key and Scale settings in the right place, set the Smooth knob to around 80%, and unplug the microphone.
Later, let the terrible singer hear a recording of a good singer, and chances are it will be what they hear in their head while they sing anyway. I know it is a convoluted workaround! (I can’t sing a note, so there’s no judgment from me).
Vox Tune is available in 64-bit AU and VST3 formats for macOS and Windows.
Download: Vox Tune (FREE)
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