Auto-Tune Artist (formerly Auto-Tune Live) is designed to meet the demanding needs of working musicians, producers, and live sound engineers. It includes all of the advanced real-time pitch correction features of Auto-Tune Pro, and is optimized for low latency performance on stage or in the studio.
While some people don't hesitate to show their singing talent in public, others prefer to leave it for their bedroom or bathroom. Regardless of which crew you belong to, the apps for automatic voice tuning will help you develop your singing skills and support your voice without hurting anyone's ears. In this article, we explore the best auto tune apps.
Smule
Smule is the biggest music app you haven’t heard of! Or, perhaps, you have heard of it. In this case, you know that the app allows to sing songs together with someone who’s far away as well as with top artists from all over the world.
Smule also has pitch correction for real-time tuning. This is what we call auto tune in this article. The program automatically fine-tunes your voice so that it sounded right and smooth.
If you want to get an application for singing that has the whole package of useful features, you should get this one! After all, it has been chosen by millions of people worldwide and really deserves its popularity.
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Voloco: Auto Tune + Harmony
Voloco: Auto Tune + Harmony is an interesting music app that has very broad functionality. It allows you to quickly get the desired effect in online automatic mode. The app lets you record your voice and in real time adjusts its intonation to the selected music, thus making it immediately processed and ready for playback. Speed and convenience will appeal to those who appreciate these characteristics.
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AutoRap by Smule
Are you dreaming of becoming a famous singer or a hip-hop artist who repeats the success of Eminem or Tupac Shakur? Then Smule’s AutoRap application is the right choice! It will assist you to do that.
This time Smule company has pleased us with a novelty – a musical application AutoRap which transforms your speech into a composition in rap style. It can do it due to a replication technology – a musical breakthrough in the mobile industry. Of course, the AutoRap application is also based on AutoTune technology.
After launching the AutoRap application, you must select the appropriate mode: Talk Mode or Rap Mode. The distinction between them is that when you use the former mode, you just effortlessly dictate the lyrics of your future song and the app matches these lyrics with the rhythm; while when you use the latter mode, you need to follow the chosen bit and sing along.
In AutoRap, there is a huge variety of styles and bits. You can encounter tunes of the tracks created by Outkast, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, BOB, Dr.Sc. Dre, Beastie Boys, Ludacris, Tupac, Nicki Minaj, Chamillionaire, Nelly, Rihanna, Kelis, and other world stars of hip-hop music.
The composition you end up with can be saved and/or uploaded to Facebook or any other social media website.
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Rapchat – Rap Music Studio with Auto Vocal Tune
Rapchat is a great app for beginning hip-hop artists and anyone who likes to create and have fun. The app provides you with thousands of beats. The auto vocal tune feature lets you sound like your favorite rappers.
In general, the app is great for creating content. You can record your lyrics in any way you like. If you don’t want to come up with your own texts, you can use the existing ones and try to sing like your heroes. In any case, this is the app you will certainly enjoy! Its interface is beautiful and its functionality is more than impressive. Get it now and check it out yourself.
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StarMaker
You must have already guessed what is the major peculiarity of StarMaker. The purpose of this app is to make you a star. At least a local one. The Auto Tune function will assist you to get the glory. Music will never stop during the recording!
This free app provides you with more than 500 tracks. You may purchase new cantos, sing, record and share your recordings with your friends via Facebook or Twitter. StarMaker is an excellent tool that will make you laugh and have lots of fun!
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The Voice
This program for smartphones called The Voice was created as an addition to the well-known TV show. It allows you to feel like a star on the stage!
After you activate the app, choose a song you would like to perform and go ahead. The app estimates the accuracy of performance. It can automatically customize vox during singing thanks to the embedded Auto-Tune, which makes the performance even more enjoyable. The basic possibilities are the same as those that are included in the karaoke application StarMaker, but here, there are also features that are characteristic of the Voice contest. For instance, while a canto is playing, the app displays judges sitting with their backs turned to the performer (you!) and if you are good at singing, the judges turn their chairs, just like in the show.
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Tune Me
Thanks to Tune Me, all the fans of T-Pain who possess an Android device are able to record their favorite songs by imitating their beloved performer. The pitch correction in the app can transfigure a user’s voice and make it sound like that of T-Pain, Kanye West, Akon, or The Lonely Island. Turn on any background sound from your personal music collection and just sing. You can also easily record rap in any free style.
Train constantly to get the most out of this app! The app permits you to upload and record any track you like and even share your personal creations with others. Besides, you can set your favorite canto as a ringtone.
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MicDroid
MucDroid will help you to always hit the notes. The program contains a huge variety of options for correcting the tone of your voice. Record tracks and send them to your social networks!
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Auto-Tune Mobile
This professional recording program for correcting vocals can now be downloaded both to your phone and tablet. Using Auto-Tune technology, you can achieve a really clean sound.
While you are singing, the application determines the notes and amends them. You can listen to the saved result after you finish singing.
If you are not an accomplished performer, the application will use a chromatic scale to customize the tonality to the desired range. The app can also work with other music applications.
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Vio
This app has reached a new standard of vox correction. Now your presets will sound in a new way. Regardless of your singing skills, you will always hit the notes and the song will sound in a natural way. You may customize the keys, scales, tempos, and more. Record music in any format. Share your records with like-minded people through SoundCloud, Dropbox, or YouTube.
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Voice Synth
This synthesizer has a lot of effects that can be applied to your voice. Voice Synth app can become an indispensable tool for musicians, DJs, and sound designers. You are not always capable of singing in unison? It does not matter – the program has a built-in AutoPitch technology, which can pick the tonality and tune your voice for any composition. Sound design, pitch shifter, arrangement, reverb, distortion, and voice delay – these are just some of the functions this app has. So, download Voice Synth and try the role of a top-class pop artist!
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Real Time Auto Tune For Iphone 7VocaLive
VocaLive is an indispensable program for iPhone owners who are dealing with vocals. The app can process vox in real time. With it, you can process a recorded vox, add a multitude of effects: reverb, echo, change of key, chorus, frequency control, adding voices, and others.
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In VocaLive, you are free to use a lot of high-quality effects while recording vox tracks in real time. At the same time, you can combine and store different combinations for further use. The collection includes 55 built-in presets.
The app also has the feature of emulating up to 20 types of classic and modern studio microphones. Using this feature will give a proper tint to your record.
In addition, there is a built-in audio editor. With its help, recordings can be quickly and professionally edited right on the screen of your device.
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Glee Karaoke
This is an app for those who prefer to sing karaoke. The Glee tool is based on the comedy series by Ryan Murphy which is also called Glee. After installation, you will see the stars of this series on the screen. Later on, they will become your assistants. There are few smash-hits available in the app such as “Rehab”, “Somebody to Love”, “Keep Me Hanging.” Just select a canto and sing! The choir from the series will sing along. If you make a mistake, the choir’s soloists will correct it.
This app is unique in that it corrects your vox, making you always sound excellent.
Features
The app has a recording feature – you can try it and see what you get. You may share your record with others by posting it on Twitter or Facebook. You will be awarded points for each published song. The points can be used for loading new songs. You can create your own Glee club and invite your friends to join you. Smule can deal with the recorded tracks and combine similar performances so that you could listen to songs performed by several voices simultaneously. There is also a competition for the best performance – two winners are selected daily.
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Learn to Sing
Learn to sing is not an auto tune app and it is an auto tune app. Let me explain. The app doesn’t work in the way all the previous apps on this list do. It won’t magically transform your voice so that it sounded more beautiful right away. It will do a subtler job – teach how to sound right without tuning, how to tune your voice yourself.
There are exercises that develop your ability to hit the right notes and recognize intervals, voice warm-up, and more. If you are a vocalist or deal with singing in some other way, this app is a must-have for you. This one is only for Android and the next one is for iOS.
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Vanido: Learn to sing
Vanido is an app that will help you improve your singing skills. The app gives you lots of exercises that are suitable for your tone and level. You can go through daily sessions and then check your progress. If you want to, you can record your pieces of training at the beginning and after some time – to learn how much has changed.
The app is perfect for singers! It can reveal your hidden potential and help you use it to the fullest.
So, this is it for auto tune applications. Enjoy singing and be smart in choosing apps!
If you cannot imagine your life without singing, read about 20 of the Best Karaoke apps for iOS & Android. With these apps, you can freely sing in the shower, a traffic jam or a cheerful company of your friends – wherever your heart desires!
Pitch-correction Plug-in
Is it really possible to carry out studio-quality pitch-correction in real time? Waves think so...
Love it or loathe it, automated pitch-correction is here to stay. Antares’ Auto-Tune first made it possible, and has become so well-known that its name is often used generically to describe all such tools, but there are plenty of other software-based pitch-correction tools out there. However, most are primarily intended for studio use, where they will be applied as post-recording processes.
For live performance there have, of course, been a number of dedicated hardware devices that offer pitch-correction in real time, including the now-discontinued Antares ATR-1 and various TC-Helicon products. It’s easy enough to see two sides to the desirability of such a tool in a live setting and I’ll leave you to have that discussion amongst yourselves but, in a world where the computer sits centre stage in so many music-making environments, the user control and flexibility offered by software-only solutions could have obvious benefits in a live context too.
Well, Antares obviously think so, because they have a version of Auto-Tune called Auto-Tune Live targeted at precisely this role, and Waves have now joined the roll-call with their own take on the genre: Tune Real-Time. Providing the rest of your system doesn’t create a processing bottleneck somewhere along the line, Tune Real-Time is designed to operate with sufficiently low latency to be fast enough for even the most demanding live-performance situation. And, as I’ll get to in a minute, the plug-in can also be used as a standard post-recording pitch-correction tool.
Holding A Tune
Waves are not new to the business of pitch-correction. Indeed, SOS reviewed the original Waves Tune way back in the November 2006 issue. While Tune can carry out pitch-correction automatically as well as manually, like the Melodyne plug-in it requires your audio to be ‘tracked’ into the plug-in before this can take place. However, faster computer systems mean that, 10 years on, real-time pitch-correction with a plug-in is now a viable prospect.
Once installed via the slick Waves Central licence management system, how you configure Tune Real-Time will depend upon your type of use. For routine automatic pitch-correction of previously tracked vocals, you would, of course, simply insert the plug-in on your vocal track and get cracking with tweaking the control set to suit. However, if you are interested in live pitch-correction — whether that’s during tracking in the studio or for live performances — a different arrangement is going to be required.
While the specifics will undoubtedly depend upon your exact hardware/software configuration, Tune Real-Time is going to need to be inserted in your signal flow in a way that allows the engineer (studio or front-of-house) and the singer to monitor through it in real time. As when applying any software processing to a live audio signal, that means a return journey for the audio through your computer system and back out to your monitor setup, making low latency all round an obvious requirement.
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Waves can’t do anything about latency introduced elsewhere within your system, but by reporting zero latency to the host, Tune Real-Time ensures that no delay compensation is applied on its account. Its actual latency varies between 0 and 4 ms depending on the frequency of the current note. Different performers have differing sensitivities to audio latency. In order to achieve a more comfortable monitoring experience, I found myself having to change the buffer sizes for my audio interface from 256 samples to 64 samples in my 44.1kHz/24-bit project. Smaller buffer sizes do, of course, mean a higher system load, but that may be a price you have to pay in order to prioritise the pitch-corrected vocal monitoring. (Alternatively, by running Tune Real-Time on one of Waves’ SoundGrid servers, you could eradicate the round trip through your computer and DAW.)
The control set allows you to select a voice type to focus the pitch-correction within a certain note range.
Corrective Measures
You can define your own scale using the keyboard display, and the plug-in includes a huge number of preset scale types.The user interface shares many common elements with that of the studio-orientated Waves Tune and, indeed, other pitch-correction tools. For example, the bottom third of the panel provides scale/key selection and a choice of voice types — which, in turn, set a default note range within which pitch-correction will be applied. The small MIDI Input/Keyboard panel allows you to give your singer a reference tone or use an external MIDI keyboard to set target notes. Other parameters in the control set can also be controlled via MIDI, including the Speed parameter, so you can, for instance, apply ‘robotic’ pitch-correction just to a few notes as a special effect.
The central keyboard strip provides a visual guide to the notes being detected as the plug-in does its thing. As well as letting you drag the left/right boundaries of the active note range, this includes an interesting additional feature whereby clicking above each note allows you to toggle its behaviour in the pitch-correction process. This includes modes for ‘legal’ (grey), ‘illegal’ (pink with a ‘-‘ icon) or ‘bypass’ (grey with an ‘x’; the note is legal but no pitch-correction is applied); but there are also two other ‘illegal’ options, both with pink arrow icons that can point to notes above or below the current note. If the pitch-detection algorithm identifies such a note, it will force the correction in the direction indicated by the arrow. This is a useful feature, as it allows you to handle the correction of specific notes in a very particular fashion.
The keyboard section allows you to define how the pitch-correction behaves for individual notes.
For example, a singer might end up consistently flat with notes at the top of their range or sharp towards the bottom of it. Tune Real-Time can accommodate that and I could imagine that in a live setting, where an FOH engineer gets to know a specific singer’s strengths and weaknesses night after night, this could offer very precise control. You can set these five different correction states either on individual notes or, with the Group Octaves button engaged, for every octave.
House Of Correction
The topmost panel contains both familiar and less familiar elements. Familiar is the large arc-shaped pitch-correction display that shows the amount of correction being applied in real time. Also familiar is the Speed dial, which controls just how quickly pitch-correction is applied at the onset of a note. Values in the 40-60 ms range produce fairly aggressive correction, while slower speeds provide a more transparent result. And, yes, by setting it to zero you can get the ‘Cher effect’.
The Correction subpanel allows you to adjust just how tightly the pitch-correction is applied. Backing off from 100 percent here does help in terms of keeping the result transparent. If you want something more in the special effects category, you can also turn formant correction off; in conjunction with MIDI control of the notes, you can then move towards Micky Mouse or Darth Vader if you so wish.
The Note Transition controls provide interesting additional options for handling the pitch-correction process across note boundaries.
Perhaps more interesting are the Note Transition and Tolerance controls. While the Speed control deals with the first note of a legato phrase, in the Wave Tune algorithm (in both its real-time and non-real-time formats), the Note Transition control influences the speed of correction applied as one note transitions into another during a phrase. In addition, the Cents and Time controls provide further influence over note transitions, allowing you to tolerate wider pitch drift before correction kicks in. OK, so the pitch-correction is still automatic, but these additional options do seem to offer an extra level of control.
Rather neatly, you can also dampen or exaggerate any natural vibrato present in the vocal (although you can’t add artificial vibrato). This is actually well worth experimenting with as its on/off status, and the slider value, interacts with the pitch-correction process; if you find yourself with the occasional unwanted ‘pitch flutter’ on a sustained note, tweaking these settings can sometimes tame it.
The Real Thing?
If Waves Tune Real-Time is to be considered a success, it must be able to satisfy on two obvious points. First, is the processing actually fast enough for real-time use? Second, is the quality, flexibility and stability of the automatic pitch-correction processing up to the job?
While my own testing was studio-based, in terms of the first question, I think the answer is a very clear yes. OK, in a recording session, I’m not sure I’d generally want to track with pitch-correction in my signal chain but, if it is something you need — perhaps as a special effect or to provide a bit of a comfort blanket to an insecure singer — Tune Real-Time can do it. The trick, both in the studio and in a live performance context, is to ensure that the rest of your monitoring signal chain doesn’t scupper the plug-in’s efficient, low-latency operation. In a mission-critical live context, that might mean putting Tune Real-Time’s needs at the top of your performance priority list.
In terms of the second question, as an automatic pitch-correction tool, Tune Real-Time is most certainly competitive with the other leading contenders. I tested it alongside Antares Auto-Tune Live; both were capable of meeting the need for speed required for real-time use and, with the obvious qualification that I’ll get to next, both delivered very good results. What’s more, the Waves control set — and in particular the note transition features and ability to configure the direction of pitch-correction on individual notes — makes for a lot of flexibility. Yes, you are still in the hands of an automated correction process, but these controls give you useful ways to influence the operation of that process.
And that obvious qualification? Automatic pitch-correction will not turn a Friday night karaoke singer into a Christina Aguilera or a Michael Bublé; this technology is impressive, and in many ways remarkable, but is not a substitute for actual vocal skills. If you set Tune Real-Time to fast pitch-quantise, even a pub singer might get away with a few bars of ‘special Cher effect’ but, if it’s a more natural performance you are seeking, Tune Real-Time will not rescue someone who really can’t sing.
That is, of course, a very good thing and, in one sense, it means the whole argument about pitch-correction in a live-performance context is still a bit moot. If your singer has his or her skills down, yes, software like Waves Tune Real-Time can support and enhance their performance, and perhaps help compensate for situations where poor monitoring or tiredness can make even a good singer’s pitch a little off. In the studio, it is perhaps possible to do more to overcome a singer’s limitations, but this would really require the offline processing options provided by the likes of Melodyne or the full version of Auto-Tune. However, it is worth emphasising that Tune Real-Time is also a great option in the studio providing all you need is automatic pitch-correction. Don’t expect miracles of this or any automatic pitch-correction tool, but if you are starting with a solid singer, Waves Tune Real-Time is more than capable of tidying up any loose edges that might occur.
Auto Tune AppsAlternatives
From a software perspective, the obvious competition is Antares’ Auto-Tune Live, currently costing about the same as Tune Real-Time at its full price.
There are also hardware alternatives, and in particular, TC-Helicon have developed a number of products aimed at live performance that include some pitch-correction options. A current example is the Mic Mechanic footpedal: this includes chromatic pitch-correction and is competitively priced, but does not provide the flexibility or level of user control offered by Tune Real-Time.
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Summary
If you don’t need the option of manual pitch editing, Waves Tune Real-Time is a very capable automatic pitch-correction tool for studio use and, given the low latency of the plug-in itself, a viable option for use in a live performance context — providing you are dealing with a competent singer in the first place.
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