Is there a pitch correction plugin available for garageband?

wampcat wrote:
Is there a pitch correction plugin available for garageband?

it's built in, in the Track Editor:

http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#opentrackeditorpane

(Let the page FULLY load. The link to your answer is at the top of your screen)

wampcat wrote:
Is there a pitch correction plugin available for garageband?

Out of curiosity, what are you trying to correct? and what do you mean by 'plugin?' Are you talking about 3rd party products?

Of course there's AutoTune.

wampcat wrote:
I'm not looking for a pitch shifter though, a pitch correction that will take a voice and put it in key, like protools has autotune. I didn't see anything like that in garageband.

Is it there? If not, can I add a 3rd party plugin to garageband?

No, there is nothing like that in GB. Best options (that I am aware of) are either Melodyne http://www.celemony.com/cms/ or Antares http://www.antarestech.com/ Both can be run as AU plugins in GB with some exceptions (see products FAQ's).

wampcat wrote:
I'm not looking for a pitch shifter though, a pitch correction that will take a voice and put it in key

not the pitch slider, the enhance tuning slider

wampcat wrote:
Is this the only way? you can't autotune it after it is recorded?

that page is wrong, you can use it, like all GB effects, during playback

HangTime wrote:

wampcat wrote:
I'm not looking for a pitch shifter though, a pitch correction that will take a voice and put it in key

not the pitch slider, the enhance tuning slider

Hi Hangtime. For what ever reason I have not been able to make the Enhance Tuning Slider do anything. Do you happen to know of an explanation of the parameters that this feature affects when used?

gjmnz wrote:
Do you happen to know of an explanation of the parameters that this feature affects when used?

i don't have the programming specs, so i can't really answer that other than it attempts to push a pitch up or down to the nearest actual note

HangTime wrote:

gjmnz wrote:
Do you happen to know of an explanation of the parameters that this feature affects when used?

i don't have the programming specs, so i can't really answer that other than it attempts to push a pitch up or down to the nearest actual note

Cool, thanks for that. Shame there is no decent explanation available as it would help with expectations of the feature.

For what ever reason I have not been able to make the Enhance Tuning Slider do anything.

Maybe you were singing too well? 😉 The actually does pretty much what you expect it to do, at full throttle it comes close to the notorious "AutoTune effect", and with the checkbox you can make it adjust the tune to the song's minor or major scale.

I you want a lot of paramters Logic's pitch correction is pretty good.

For the record, I've been using Melodyne in GB for a couple of years now and couldn't get along without it. Had a singer scheduled for four songs that I needed finished demos for in two days. He came recommended, but I'd never actually heard him. turns out he had a voice like Robert Preston, if Robert Preston couldn't carry a tune or keep time. I was facing total failure. But I went ahead and recorded him, warts and all and hoped Melodyne would be up to the task. I even recorded part of one song in B-flat because he was stronger in that key than in G, which is what my other singer had recorded in.

Melodyne turned four utterly unworkable, unusable tracks into decent representations. I was even able to engineer harmony lines that were never recorded. It gives you more editing ability for singing tracks than you get with midi notes.

It's worth the price.

Interesting comments. Not sure how much time you have, but I would find it helpful if you could comment on a couple of questions I have re Garageband and Melodyne.

1. After having used Melodyne for the time you have, what prompted your initial question. Was it a frustration with Melodyne or just curiosity?

2. Have you ever explored the pitch and Enhance Tuning sliders and their impact in GB? If so, were there any positives or negatives regarding the results?

3. Which version of Melodyne do you have? I have been looking at getting it myself but do not know anyone who has it, esp someone working with GB.

Thanks in advance.