How To Tune Vocals in FL Studio - Newtone Tutorial

hello and welcome to the video today I'm gonna be showing you how to tune your vocals using the new tone plug-in in FL Studio it comes with the Signature Edition and it runs inside FL Studio a little bit like Melodyne so you can adjust the time and the pitch of any notes effectively tuning your notes making your performance perfect you can adjust your vibrato the transition times you can change words to a different pitch or or note entirely so let's just get right into it and find out how to use this plugin in this tutorial I'm gonna be using two examples and by the end of it you should be really confident with new tone especially for toning your own vocals and potentially creating harmonies too I'm gonna be using a sentence from a song by David autostart he's got a really cool project called the work day release I've left all his socials in the description he's a really great resource for singing songwriting so if you've got any questions just leave them in the comments down below he'll be sort of trolling through there and answering as many as he can and I also want to say putting your vocal I want you to be like this especially on this channel it's really vulnerable thing to do it's a really brave thing to do so I want to thank David before we start for letting me pick apart his vocal he's a really good singer but in these we were doing three-minute takes so the very start to the very end of the song in one take I've had to pick out sentences where there's a few little tuning instabilities and it's really brave of him to let me do that so I just want to thank him for letting us do that so that we can all gain from this so let's take a listen to the first sentence which is sort of a sung phrase but in the same room but if we fall me back to and but in the same room but if we fall way back to and it's 95% the way there if it was just staying with guitar and vocal I'd probably leave it the way it is but room and fall they have a lot of vibrato but their ever so slightly flat and then too when so when he sings when thank you when starts too low and then it drifts up to the right note and then finishes just over with the vibrato and you can hear the reverb if I increase the reverb it really takes away the wrong note here - - it just doesn't sound right it sounds sour and one of the problems with this is that when I stack loads of synthesizers against this and reverb those tiny little problems are going to become amplified let's get right into the pitch correction you can load new tone on any insert so if you have a mixer insert here you can just open up and if you have the Signature Edition of FL Studio you can just load a new tone right here you can then drag in any wav file or a quick way to do it double left-click on your file right click in this window edit in pitch corrector it's going to load up in new tone for you so what this is is showing you each note or each word broken apart into its respective pitch sometimes a word holds one note for instance room hmm and sometimes words are split between multiple pitches if the singers doing a run at the left hand side we have a keyboard so we know which notes they are for instance in this same room is G a B a but in the same room you can also resize this window drag from the bottom right to resize it go to the top bar press Enter you can resize it to be the whole size of your screen you can also use the scroll bars at the side just to get things sitting perfectly quick tips if you hold alt and scroll you can get more vertical resolution if you hold ctrl and scroll you can zoom in like this which is great new tone can be used in loads of different ways firstly you can simply just drag a note and drag it onto any pitch you like I'm gonna make I'm just gonna go to the top menu here because I have snapped to scale selected I'm just going to turn that off so any note you like you can change the melody but in the same room in the same room what if we fall so you can use it like that to completely change the melody if you've sung the wrong notes let's get into a little bit more so this orange trace represents the exact pitch at any one time in the performance and if you drag the cursor along it follows along with that something I'm gonna do quickly it's just press control and I'm just gonna loop a section so that we've got something to work with here each of the words has this sort of orange shadow behind it now if you just go on to one and right click it locks it to that nearest note that's been detected sometimes the nearest note isn't the cracked nose so it's something to be aware of and what I'm just gonna do right now is just go into this cut icon and I'm gonna select snap to scale I'm gonna make sure that the right scale is selected for this song before we go into any precise editing I'm going to show these three global controls at the top Center variation transition time so Center centers it onto the nearest note if you look at these ones here you can see that if I increase the center it just centers on to the nearest average no variation down is gonna flatten all the pitch variation no vibrato no sort of warbling and then all the way up just increases all of that stuff it makes it really unstable transition time changes the time between the transitions so here we go for an instance here it just cuts it so that it's really really sharp so if I play this it's gonna sound awful it's gonna sound like auto tune robot but in the same room what if we fall way back - and technically perfect but really it's garbage so I'm just gonna reset that using the center dial is sometimes okay but I prefer to do all the pitch correction manually and the best way to do this is look at individual notes so if you select a note you'll see that all these options open up so let's just go from the top to the bottom volume if you left click and drag at the top here where it says volume you can change the volume of a note so the volume of an individual word over to the right in this green section you can change the gain at the start of the word and you can change the gain at the end when it gets back to 100% that's you back to where you started at the bottom is where we start looking at pitch so you can change the variation which kind of does the same thing as the center which is going to get rid of all your vibrato or you can increase the variation which is going to intensify that for broto you can drag these green and red sections out at the side and these affect the transi in pitch so for instance if I drag this down a lot the end of this word is gonna pitch down same room what this section at the left middle lets you change the length of a word so it sort of elastically shifts the word in case your singer wasn't singing in time hold alt and you get exact fine control over that at the end here as a formant shift if you were to shift your whole note up by dragging in the middle that's a left-click and drag up to this note for instance in the same room it might then sound a little bit too high-pitched so what you can do is left-click and drag here and pull the shift down slightly in the same room and it might make it sound more natural if you start pushing it too far up its gonna sound like a chipmunk in the same just sounds really really silly so I tend to leave that alone when it comes to the fine pitch correction most professionals are in agreement about a technique that works really well sort of 99% of the time and what it is is using a cut tool so you can select here or press C on your keyboard and you just chop up each note into the smallest sections that you can and then you deselect the cut tool and you right-click you right-click to snap it into the nearest pitch room and it tends to preserve a lot of the sort of qualities of the voice that you want while still giving you really quite perfect pitch we haven't got rid of all of this for brat or anything we've just snapped that vibrato so there's a little bit more centered if you go back up to this edit menu again and you change the snap to grid from quarter to eighth you can get in and cut these up even more finally I don't usually find that this is necessary but it's just something you can do if you're really struggling now I'm gonna go through and pitch this whole thing I might speed up some of these sections but basically I'm just doing the same thing I'm just cutting and then I'm just snapping them in and then all the while I'm listening don't just do stuff because the orange trace and tells you it has to be done for instance the orange trace kind of jumps up and down here rapidly it's probably because there's an S or there's a plosive sound or something that's messing it up but in the same we are the same the s there is being detected as higher-pitched but it actually sounds fine but in the same room this one here definitely goes too high but in the same room what if we fall through this whole thing but in the same room what if we fall fall away back to what if we fall and again like I said fall just started too low and ended up a little bit too high you fall what if we fall what if we fall way back to way back goes too low let's cut those up again what if we fall way back too and what if we fall way back to when and then when just as you could visibly see it started far too low and and then it got a little bit too high at the end maybe too much variation here on this end of the vibrato but I want to make sure that when still sounds really human get back to when when when and then this section here sounds a little bit robotic way back to when it sort of sounds a little bit silly so I'm gonna sort of adjust these transitions and make sure that it's not too sharp or anything to when the in something to also note is that often when you play back inside new tone it gives you all sorts of weird artifacts clicks and pops these usually all disappear once you drag the audio back out so once you're finished with this I'm gonna select this tool up here drag selection I'm just gonna drag it back onto the playlist now I'm gonna line up with the previous audio just zoom in a little bit and this is the most important step and what I'd recommend doing here is once you finish tuning one I just go onto a new bit work on something else maybe tweak some EQ adjust some levels then come back to it a few minutes later because at this point your your brain is too focused on the pitch and you're probably like hearing problems where there aren't problems so once you've taken a slight break come back and listen to it in context but in the same room what if we fall way back to now I'm really gonna increase this reverb here so that I can hear this bit that was clearly a problem last time when you can hear the reverb from what seems to be in the right tune with the guitar if I listen to the old one new one old one the old ones really low-pitched if I go back to this section as well let's listen to other sections then yeah you can hear that this one's like really sour sounding by comparison obviously I'd never have the reverb that high but it's good for identifying problems so I think this one sounds ok there might be areas that are a little bit too robotic but let's just take one more listen so the two one needs some work really I'd want to look at that again but overall it doesn't sound like it's gone through auto-tune it doesn't sound really stupid or robotic and I still think that it's respectful to David's vote vocal and his skill I'm not just flattening out and trying to make it my version of perfect there are a few more interesting tools inside new tone film so one of them is the time correction tool you saw me tweak some of the notes here but if you click up here in this clock you can actually it sort of slices the waveform like this but in the same room what if we fall we we're in the same room what if we fall you can change the time of each note now it sounds a bit like broken inside here it tends to sound better when you drag it out but I don't tend to use this very much but if you know something was out of time you can slice it and pull it back to where you want it to be also inside the pitch correction section if I go Center it take the variation down say I'm going to select a note this is one advanced editing mode but if you go into the Edit tool again you can do advanced edit vibrato and what this lets you do is it changes the controls so inside this blue area if I drag to the side vibrato starts getting added then if I drag up at the end it changes the vibrato send amplitude and at the start the start amplitude so sometimes if you flattened a word and you want to add some for barato back you can do this fall fall fall which sounds are quite different from fall fall fall fall fall and you can start kind of going crazy with it I don't like doing this with the voice but where I do find it's useful is if you've recorded a violin or a cello just a single note no vibrato this can actually make it sound pretty realistic it's never gonna be as good as real vibrato but it's it's kind of close close enough especially if it's buried in the mix another really cool feature once you've centered removed all the transition times and taking the variation down is that you can use this to copy the MIDI information in here or just send it straight to the piano roll so you can copy it and paste it into a synthesizer so say you have a vocal melody during the chorus and you want to synthesize our synth lead to copy it you can get that synth to copy the exact same notes by converting this audio into MIDI I might make a whole new tutorial about that because it's actually quite a useful feature it's just important to know that you have it there especially if you're not very good at figuring out melodies maybe if you hear something you're not very good at playing it again on a piano it's not a strong skill of mine either so that's quite useful for me now it's time for the second part of the tutorial which is using it for this vocal pad stack here so I'm going to show you the final result this is what we did [Music] now there will be more vocals added around that and there's more instruments to be added but I don't want to give the whole song away right now and this is created of loads of little layers where he's just singing a single note and moving to another and to another [Music] but underneath it I have the originals which weren't tuned and they sound really sour like this mainly because of the reverb I'll show you just really really doesn't sound good and the reason for this is that we recorded them super late at night David wasn't really ready for them I didn't give him enough volume and his headphones so he could barely hear what he was doing and what ended up happening was that he started each note just a little bit flat and then he did get to the right note and then he had to do the whole thing again so it just went flat cracked flat cracked flat cracked and because I've drowned these in so much reverb the start bit this flat is getting dragged across the whole you know for a few seconds and that tiny little bit of a note that's wrong makes the whole thing sound wrong which is obviously a big problem whereas in the pitched ones I've removed that so how you do this is really straightforward double left click right click Edit in pitch corrector if I just take all of this stuff off again you'll see what I mean it starts on the wrong note this D sharp is not in the scale of our song just as a little bit here he's at the right note here and he didn't start on the right now I'm just gonna turn off the advanced edit vibrato and you can get away with quite a lot more here so what you can do if you have your scale selected just Center it and take the variation down and that is probably all you have to do [Music] that for me works nine times out of ten sometimes I'll leave in a little bit of variation however if it's drifting like this is still a problem it's best to cut these and snap them back in so you can still cut them all up into individual chunks or snap them in but sometimes if you're being honest with yourself and you listen to a and B it can sometimes not sound any better than simply just ramming the variation down um which is a shame because I like to think that putting in hard work pays off but in this case sometimes this technique just is easier to do by just using the macros at the top here the main controls one thing I would say however is that new tone seems to really mess up breaths so sometimes a breath I'm not sure about this one it's got this weird inhuman quality to it it's got this raspy 'no stew it sounds almost metallic it's often really good with the main vocals to cut these breaths out of the new tone performance and take the original breaths from the untuned vocals cut those and just drag them into the right place it's probably you know it's probably about 10 minutes of work for the whole song but it's definitely worth it because when you're tuning vocals you know you want to preserve as much of the human element as you can and things like breaths there's something that listeners actually want to hear not too loud but you need to hear them it reminds people that you're human it's it's important if you cut all the breaths out of a vocal performance things start sounding really really silly so anyway after you've done that you simply use the drag tool again drag the selection to your playlist send it to wherever you send it to and it's all good so when you do that technique across all of them so just repeat the same process six times you'll end up with something like this [Music] and something else that's important to know is if I add it in the pitch corrector again you can actually use this to completely change up your melodies so you might want to drag this up drag this down oh let me just get about snap to scale right it should be this one you can actually change the melody entirely [Music] you might want to try that I'm gonna try this [Music] start sounding a little bit robotic at the top I'm not gonna lie it doesn't sound that good but you can use this to experiment with different melodies and this is really useful for a singer because sometimes they try something but when they're in the vocal booth or in the front of the mic they don't think of the best idea right away and sometimes it's good to just say hey look I tried this as a harmony do you want to hear what it sounds like if you like it then you can sing it and this is something we've done quite a lot in the past will synthesize harmonies to see what they sound like if we like them will delete them will delete the pitched version and will sing them the right way knowing what the harmonies gonna sound like it's just another tool at your disposal sometimes it's important to remember that you can use pitch correction just to figure stuff out you don't have to live with it forever you can figure stuff out and then go and record a real version something that I've found I've done background vocals a couple of times and you know I say that I'm terrible at singing I really am but I want to try and get better when I sing and record it I can open up in new tone and I can see what my problem's are I always usually singers have the same problems over and over again it causes you see it in patterns over and over and I always start start words too low just way too low and then I slowly drift up usually hit the right note and then I'm quite unstable on it so when I can see that I do that on every single word it just lets me know something about my vocal chords and over time you can start becoming more and more accurate with it so sometimes as a singer people like there's such a taboo around pitch correction but really if you use it as an analysis tool to help you figure out what you're doing wrong it can help you improve and I wouldn't recommend using heavy pitch correction on all your vocals it's just not something that is probably gonna make them sound much better in the long run I think people still prefer a real vulnerable vocal sound sometimes I think it just sounds more real like I said more vulnerable more emotional and and that's where I think music is heading back to however if you want to use pitch correction is also absolutely fine so I hope this tutorial has been useful for you I hope you gained a lot from it and I just want to thank David again for letting us but letting me butcher his vocals in this tutorial and I'll see you in the next video bye

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Keywords: Vocal Tuning, Pitch Correction, FL Studio, Newtone, how to tune vocals, how to pitch vocals, fl studio auto tune, fl studio vocal tuning, vocal editing, fl studio vocals, newtone tutorials, how to tune vocals in fl studio, auto tune fl studio, tuning vocals, vocal pitch correction, pitch correction, fl studio, in the mix, music production, mixing vocals, manual pitch editing, fl studio 20, newtone tutorial

Id: 7GI7vmcs5l4

Length: 19min 59sec (1199 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 03 2019