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How Auto-Tune Works!
Written By: Eric “Realistic” Michael
Auto-Tune is very common these days & if you're a engineer or even a producer, you have a strong likelihood that Auto-Tune will be in your regular rotation.
So why not understand how it works??
For a more in-depth breakdown, we do have a full blog on our website detailing everything Auto-Tune has to offer.
• Input Type - Helps Auto-Tune focus on specific frequency types (The settings are Soprano, Tenor, Alto, Low Male, & Instrument)
• Key & Scale - Setting the correct key & scale will narrow down the choices Auto-Tune will have to tune your voice to the correct note. This is a very important parameter & plays a big role on whether or not your Auto-Tune will sound like 🔥 or 🗑
• Retune Speed - Sets how fast the Auto-Tune will tune a note. Slower retune speeds will sound more natural. Faster retune speeds such as 0-10, will sound more computerized & give off the sound we hear in records by Migos, Swae Lee, & Future.
• Humanize - Allows sustained notes to have a slower retune speed than the shorter notes. This helps to create a more natural sound by a lot! When a note is held out, Auto-Tune won't over react to it. The note won't sound overly tuned the more you increase this knob. This is great for singers, but for modern hip-hop vocals, you would usually avoid using this knob.
• Flex-Tune - Allows you to set the rate at which Auto-Tune will correct the pitch away from scaled notes. What it's doing is allowing singers to sing in between notes, use some vibrato to get to the note, or do melisma techniques without the Auto-Tune stepping in & ruining the natural unique tones the human voice gives. Again, for modern hip-hop vocals, you would usually avoid this knob or if the person really can't sing don't use this knob 😂
• Natural Vibrato - Allows you to add or take away the vibrato that is in the voice. Usually best to avoid this knob!
• Auto VS Graph Mode - Auto is AutoTune automatically making the changes based on the settings you have. Graph allows you to make manual adjustment on every individual note & pitch. You can also adjust the vibrato, timing, & speed of each note. It can sound more natural if you have a good ear, but it's time consuming!
• Target Notes VIA MIDI - You can play in a melody or chords from a MIDI device, and the track will be tuned to what you play. This option is usually best for sound design or production purposes. You can get some cool vocal effects doing this & really turn a vocal performance into an instrument.
DESIGNERS
SoundOracle - Owner
SoundOracle (Chief Sound Designer for Timbaland, whose sounds have been heard in over 20 Grammy award-winning songs by artists like Drake, Jay Z, Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Chris Brown, and more)
Connect with Oracle:
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Realistic Production - Engineer
Realistic is a Producer/Engineer located in Atlanta, GA specializing in Hip-Hop, R&B & Pop music. Realistic has been involved in the music industry for over 15 years. He has worked on projects for Talib Kweli, Just Blaze, Musiq Soulchild, Pharoahe Monch, NBA 2k, Skyzoo, BJ The Chicago Kid, Madlib, Ayo-N-Keyz, Billboard Hitmakers, Atmosphere, Brother Ali, Rhymesayers, Hamburger Helper, & LoveOfPharaoh.
CONNECT WITH REALISTIC
Website: www.realisticproductions.net
IG: @RealisticProductions
Twitter: @Realistic_Pro
FB: @RealisticProductionsLLC
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COURSES
Courses from soundoracle.net give music producers the resources, information, and techniques they need to take their music careers to the next level. It doesn't matter if you're genres are hip hop, R&B, pop, trap, or boom-bap our courses have you covered.
PIANO FOR PRODUCERS
Everything You Need to Know About Hip Hop and Trap Music Theory, the Formulas To Hit Records, and How to Create Them Instantly
It is NOT another boring course on piano fundamentals & long winded theory talk.
It is NOT about just about teaching you scales and chord progressions - yet you will learn about these things, but on a deeper level than you could have ever imagined and your beats and songs will sound BETTER than they've ever sounded before.
It is NOT a course set up to have you just clone chords and melodies that someone else has done to make hit records. This course will give you the fundamentals and an understanding of how to quickly and easily create hit records yourself.
What’s included:
🎹 Over 55 videos of modern piano techniques
🎹 Over 6 hours of content
🎹 PDF guides to follow along
🎹 Chord & Scale cheat sheets
🎹 Techniques about trap melodies, bass lines, & modern chord progressions.
🎹 In-depth lessons from a renowned instructor with a full master degree in piano composition
🎹 Videos discussing & teaching the styles & musicality commonly used in Modern Hip-Hop, R&B, & Trap Music
🎹Original piano loops composed by Lokii The Composer himself
THE ART OF MASTERING
Everything You Need To Know In Order To Perfectly Master Records With Any DAW And The Plugins You Already Have
It is NOT just another mastering course that uses vague information that wastes your time and money.
It is NOT about just balancing the volume levels - yet this will happen as a result of using these secrets
and your beats and songs will sound BETTER than they've ever sounded before.
It is NOT just about showing you what settings to dial in - every project and every song is different. This course will easily explain the knowledge you need to know what to "dial in" in any situation.
What's Included...
Over 9 Hours Of Expert Techniques
Get years of experience & hundreds of thousands of dollars of education all packed into this professional, affordable course.
Mastering Cheat Sheets In PDF Form
These guides will come in clutch when you need to reference information quickly or are in a pinch when you’re not able to watch a video.
Easy To Understand, Concise Layout
Not only is the information easy to understand, the chapters are laid out in concise bite size format for quick reference to a specific technique whenever you need it.
THE ART OF BEAT MIXING
Our new online video course dropped last week & since then we have been flooded with orders!
The Art Of Beat Mixing is filled with industry mixing secretes like the simple drum summing technique that can get your kicks and snares to smack 10x BETTER INSTANTLY. SoundOracle used this summing technique on the Nicki Minaj & Mario song "Somebody Else". It works so well that the track didn't even need a baseline or an 808. The drums were that powerful!
The Art Of Beat Mixing is a full length video course with over 5 hours of content provided by a professional certified engineer! With 15 chapters packed into this course, each video gives you detailed visual guides on mixing your beats from start to finish.
What's included?
- Over 5 hours of expert techniques
- Mixing cheat sheets in PDF form
- An easy to understand, concise layout
- Small, digestible chapters with quick access to the info you need
- Everything you need to know to mix your beats professionally
THE ART OF VOCAL MIXING
Producers, beat makers, engineers, & artists - the perfect video course for guaranteeing your vocals have amazing professional quality is finally here!
Gone will be the days of your vocal mixes being cursed by muddiness, clipping, & lack of clarity.
The Art Of Vocal Mixing is a full length video course with over 14 hours of content provided by a professional certified engineer! With 20 chapters packed into this course, each video gives you detailed visual guides on mixing your vocals from start to finish.
You’ll learn how to achieve incredible vocal mixes with brilliantly designed short, easy to understand videos breaking down the entire process of mixing vocals professionally. Each stage of the mixing process has its own video making it easy to find the information you want to know, when you want it.
What's included?
- Over 150 high quality tutorial videos
- Over 14 hours of expert techniques
- Useful mixing guides in PDF form
- An easy to understand, concise layout
- A beautifully designed interface
- Small, digestible chapters with quick access to the info you need
- Everything you need to know to mix your vocals professionally
- A bonus sound kit made by SoundOracle himself!
