Tuning Vocals with ReaTune in REAPER

[Music] hi I'm Kenny Choi welcome to another one of my tutorials in this video I want to show you how to tune vocals using retune with the retune plug-in in Reaper have a track in front of me here with a vocal and there's some notes that a bit out of tune let's hear it cut store surrounded by love still uh-huh so wanna fix them with the retune plugin so let's go to the track right here track effects and we'll go down to the reaper plugins because this plug-in comes with reaper go down here to retune double-click it and it looks like this now we're gonna do this manually note by note but I'll show you the auto mode in a little bit so gonna go over here to the second tab hold correction and we're going to choose the key of this song I happen to know that's an F or F major so I'm going to change this right here F and major and what that's gonna do is gonna eliminate certain notes that we can't choose that aren't in the key like this one and this one and it's gonna change based on the key the saw but see it's these notes but we're using f so now they lead out of here to our attack time this decides how quickly the plugins going to react in other words with a real short time it's gonna tune very quickly but that could sound unnatural with a higher number it sounds more natural but it could take longer to fix the note so it might still sound at a tune so you need to find a setting where it sounds natural but still tunes all the notes or the mistakes so I try 100 milliseconds then go to the third tab manual correction and here's we're gonna tune each note and one of the nice things about this plug-in is we can make it as big as we want stretch it out making it easy to see the representation of the notes it's now gonna go pier to track pitch so the plugin can map out the pitchy singing and then we can hit play and play the vocal into the plugin cuz i'm a man on a horse running why i'm ship got the storm surrounded by love still [Music] uh-huh so these squiggly lines right here represent pitch and Ike used the mouse to zoom in so I could see them better and now we could work phrase by phrase here's the first phrase cuz I'm a man and we could hear this first note is flat supposed to be an F if you follow the lines over here here's an F here's a G an A and the grayed out ones are the notes we're not using they're not in the key of F major which is why we chose that in the tab over here now all we have to do is draw the notes that we want so if this is supposed to be an F just go right here and drag it and let go and I notably pitch corrected to be an F but in order here the change we need to turn on manual correction right here and I would see the difference because I'm a man Jeff that sounds a lot better before because I'm a man and after because I'm a man now the first note over here also sounds a bit flat so it's sure that in as well right here now I kind of like to start a bit later so the pitch will go up as he sings it more naturally let's hear it because I'm a man chef that sounds a lot better we could work through the song note by note a phrase by phrase this note right here is sharp supposed to be a G or g3 so again we draw from here to here to fix that note now Reapers gonna snap to each one of these lines if we move this around it's gonna snap to all the notes in the key making it easy to make it perfect let's put it back right here here this phrase um this could be fixed as well on a horse run and horse is a bit flat [Music] anyone uh-huh you should be an F [Music] cut the shebeen a cut sounds better we just worked through the entire performance cut stone surrounded by love this is flat as well surrounded by love still and love is sharp surrounded by love still alone uh-huh she's sharp and this is flat ah that's good enough for now but see this all back because I'm a man I'm child on a horse running why I'm a ship cut storm surrounded by love I'm here that sounds a lot better so he definitely improved it now one of the things about this plugin is it does take up some CPU so if it's too much for your computer just freeze the track when you're done so go over here to a track right click it go down to render freeze tracks and choose freeze tracks tamaño because the vocal is mono and it's gonna freeze the track with the tuning we just did and I would look over here there's no plugins on the track but we're still gonna hear that tune vocal [Music] because it printed that effect or it froze it but if you want to go back and retweet it just right click again Brenda Frese tracks and unfreeze the track and it goes back to the original and we can reach week our tuning right here now as you can tell it does take time to tune your vocals if you don't have that time or you're working on background vocals that aren't is important you could use the auto mode let's turn this off right here manual correction let's go back to the second tab called correction and instead of manually doing it we just choose right here Auto pitch correction that's gonna do a similar thing except it does it automatically let's see how well it works with this performance get me set the key to F major and if we watch over here we'll see what it's doing cuz I'm a man on a horse running why I'm a ship got store to running by love I'm here I'm son I can see God [Music] that's actually pretty good and obviously it's a lot quicker but if you just want to fix certain notes and get more precise with it you could use manual mode and just choose the notes you want to fix so that's pretty much it that's tuning vocals with retune or the retune plug-in in Reaper I hope you learn something hope you can use it and I'll see you next time Thanks [Music] you ah you

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Length: 9min 16sec (556 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 08 2017