Synchro Arts

Advanced Timing & Pitch Alignment

In modern music production, getting the very best from your vocals is essential and because your time is precious, Synchro Arts created VocAlign Ultra to give you the highest quality results with the least amount of work. Featuring technology from their flagship Revoice Pro software, VocAlign Ultra takes plug-in based vocal matching to a whole new level with unparalleled control and total flexibility. Don’t waste time manually editing vocals, get VocAlign Ultra and speed up your workflow today.

Great Vocals… Only Better

VocAlign Ultra is nothing short of a revolution in plugin-based audio alignment. Powered by the latest algorithms from Revoice Pro, VocAlign Ultra consistently provides better results when aligning longer and more complex sections of audio. Then for complete creative freedom, VocAlign Ultra features a new tightness control so you decide how much alignment you want to apply to your signals. Also Ultra doesn’t just fix the timing of your performances with unprecedented ease and speed, it can align pitch too. And that’s just for starters, there are many other enhancements which make VocAlign Ultra an essential tool for music producers, mix engineers and audio post professionals. 

Features

• Instantly Match Timing and Pitch of Two or More Signals
• Great for Vocals, Instruments and Sound Effects
• Includes the Revoice Pro Alignment Algorithm 
• NEW! Tightness Control
• NEW! Match Pitch Section
• NEW! 60+ Alignment Presets
• NEW! Enhanced Waveform and Pitch Displays
• NEW! Fully Resizable GUI Window
• NEW! Advanced and Basic Editing Panels
• Sync Points and Protected Areas
• NEW! Two activations included with each license
• NEW! All iLok Copy Protection options supported (no iLok USB dongle needed)
• Full ARA2 (Audio Random Access) support for enhanced workflow with compatible DAWs

Latest Audio Alignment Technology

VocAlign Ultra boasts Synchro Arts’ very latest alignment technology from their award-winning flagship software, Revoice Pro. This means you can align longer and complex vocal sections in seconds with unprecedented accuracy and ease, reducing the need for any manual editing and potentially saving hours of your time which can be spent on more creative tasks. 

Tightness Control 

For complete creative freedom, VocAlign Ultra features new tightness controls so you decide how much alignment you want to apply to your vocals. If super-tight isn’t sounding right, then just loosen the setting in VocAlign Ultra and more of the original double or harmony performance will be retained for a more natural result.

Match Pitch Section

Before Ultra, VocAlign only aligned the timing of your performances but now you can tighten up pitch too. Don’t waste time tuning your doubles or backing vocals separately, once you’re happy with the tuning of your lead, VocAlign Ultra instantly applies your guide’s pitch to any other vocals that need to match.

60+ Alignment Presets

Not sure which alignment settings to use? That’s no problem, VocAlign Ultra includes a variety of carefully designed and well labelled presets covering all the most common alignment scenarios, just make your choice and start aligning. You can also tweak and create your own presets which can be saved to use again in the future.

Enhanced Waveform & Pitch Displays

To enable fast and easy visual inspection of alignment results, Synchro Arts created added two brand new displays in VocAlign Ultra. The first is a waveform display which shows your audio just how it would appear in your DAW. Secondly, there is a new view showing the pitch traces of your signals so you can easily see how they differ before and after processing. 

Fully Resizable GUI 

Synchro Arts understand your screen real-estate is valuable so once you have decided on your settings, VocAlign Ultra can be reduced to down to a compact size just showing the key controls for operation. With a completely resizable GUI, VocAlign Ultra can be as big or as small as you need to be, depending on which controls you need to see.

Basic and Advanced Editing Panels

In VocAlign Ultra you can toggle between basic and advanced editing modes depending on how deep you want to go when tweaking parameters. If you need to make quick and simple changes select basic but for more detailed adjustments just switch to advanced and more controls will be displayed. 

Full ARA2 Integration With Compatible DAWs

ARA or Audio Random Access is a revolutionary audio plug-in extension that enables unprecedented instant communication between ARA-enabled plug-ins and DAWs. The huge time-saving benefit for VocAlign users is that real-time audio capture is no longer necessary as audio files can be instantly captured, updated and returned to your DAW.

Sync Points & Protected Areas

For complex alignment problems, VocAlign Ultra has a few handy advanced editing tools to fix your vocals fast. Sync Points are user-defined target points on your guide and dub tracks which VocALign will try to ensure remain in sync when processing. Protected Areas allow you to select a portion of your double or harmony which you don’t want VocAlign to process.

Natural Vocal Pitch Editing Plug-in

Powerful, easy to use and exceptionally transparent, RePitch sets a new standard for vocal pitch editing tools. Instantly snap vocal tracks to any scale or make forensic pitch, timing or vibrato changes in seconds. You can even connect RePitch to VocAlign Ultra for simultaneous tuning of multiple vocal layers, saving hours of manual work.

Tuning You Can’t Hear

RePitch meets the challenge of getting perfectly tuned vocals that don’t sound processed or doctored, so flaws and imperfections can be removed without compromising the feel or vibe of the performance.

Powered by Synchro Arts’ advanced musical note detection technology, RePitch’s instant automatic pitch correction can be applied in seconds and then for more detailed editing, just fire up the suite of manual tools for fine tuning and tweaking.

A completely unique feature, RePitch uses their SynchroLink technology to connect to their alignment plugin VocAlign Ultra, so any pitch and timing changes can be instantly transferred to multiple doubles in real time saving hours of editing. 

Developed with the uncompromising input of Grammy-winning producers and engineers from all over the world, RePitch makes vocal pitch and timing correction quicker, easier and more transparent than ever before.

Features

• Enhanced musical pitch analysis
• Powerful suite of intuitive pitch and time editing tools
• Easy automatic or detailed manual correction options
• Edit pitch, sibilance and breathes separately
• Formant Shifting
• Scale Detection
• Fully Resizable GUI Window
• SynchroLink enabled for connectivity with VocAlign Ultra (Supported DAWs Only)
• Two activations included with each licence
• All iLok Copy Protection options supported (no iLok USB dongle needed)
• Full ARA2 (Audio Random Access) support for enhanced workflow with compatible DAWs

The World’s #1 Audio Alignment Plugin

The industry-standard plugin for aligning audio, VocAlign Project 5 takes two separate vocal performances and effortlessly aligns their timing in seconds. Don’t waste your time manually tightening vocals, VocAlign saves hours of tedious editing so you can focus on what’s important, being creative and hitting deadlines.

Get Tight Vocals Fast

Whatever the musical genre, VocAlign is the must-have plugin for working with stacked vocals, bringing your performances together so they sound clean and focused. Also if you’re working in audio post-production VocAlign is an essential tool for ADR, enabling dialogue to be instantly replaced.

Using VocAlign with your DAW is simple. Just capture a ‘Guide’ signal with the right timing, capture a ‘Dub’ signal to be aligned to the guide, VocAlign performs the alignment and a new aligned Dub is generated and returned to your DAW.

Latest Audio Alignment Technology

VocAlign Project 5 boasts Synchro Arts very latest alignment algorithms from their award-winning flagship software, Revoice Pro. This means you can align longer and more complex vocal sections in seconds with unprecedented accuracy and ease, potentially saving hours of your time that can be spent on more creative tasks.

Tightness Control

For complete creative freedom, VocAlign Project 5 features a new tightness control so you decide how much alignment you want to apply to your vocals. If super-tight isn’t sounding right, then just loosen the setting in VocAlign Project 5 and more of the original double or harmony performance will be retained for a more natural result.

Smart Align

VocAlign Project 5 features an all-new SmartAlign control so you can line up your vocals, without having to do anything!

Alignment Presets

Not sure which alignment settings to use? That’s no problem, VocAlign Project 5 includes a variety of carefully designed and well labelled presets covering all the most common alignment scenarios, just make your choice and start aligning. You can also tweak and create your own presets which can be saved to use again in the future.

Enhanced Waveform Displays

To enable fast and easy visual inspection of alignment results, Synchro Arts has added a new display in VocAlign Project 5. The new waveform view shows your audio just how it would appear in your DAW and allows easy comparison between your guide and output signals.

Fully Resizable GUI

Synchro Arts understands your screen real estate is valuable so once you have decided on your settings, VocAlign Project 5 can be reduced to down to a compact size just showing the key controls for operation. With a completely resizable GUI, VocAlign Project 5 can be as big or as small as you need to be, depending on which controls you need to see.

Full ARA2 Integration With Compatible DAWs

ARA or Audio Random Access is a revolutionary audio plug-in extension that enables unprecedented instant communication between ARA-enabled plug-ins and DAWs. The huge time-saving benefit for VocAlign users is that real-time audio capture is no longer necessary as audio files can be instantly captured, updated and returned to your DAW.

Features

• Instantly Match Timing of Two or More Signals.
• Great for Vocals, Instruments and Sound Effects.
• Includes the Revoice Pro Alignment Algorithm.
• Tightness Control.
• SmartAlign Intelligent Processing.
• Align Mulitple Tracks (ARA2 Hosts Only).
• Alignment Presets.
• Enhanced Waveform Display.
• Two activations are included with each license.
• All iLok Copy Protection options supported (no iLok USB dongle needed).
• Full ARA2 (Audio Random Access) support for enhanced workflow with compatible DAWs.

The Ultimate Pitch & Timing Toolbox

Used worldwide by top music producers and audio professionals, Revoice Pro 4 features Syncro Arts’ industry-standard audio alignment technology, an extensive suite of pitch adjustment tools and a premium doubler which combine to create a vocal, instrument and dialogue editing powerhouse.

With Revoice Pro, Synchro Arts offer a solution which delivers premium audio quality while being fast and easy to use, saving you hours of tedious editing time, ensuring the highest possible production values and helping to achieve your creative vision.

Key Features

• APT – Clone the timing, pitch, vibrato and level features of one audio track and use it on another.
• Warp – Manipulate the timing and pitch of your audio whilst maintaining the highest audio quality.
• Doubler – Instantly create natural-sounding mono and stereo double tracks.

Music Production using Revoice Pro 4

• Tighten the timing, pitch and vibrato of “stacked” lead and backing vocals or instrumental tracks.
• Create one or more realistic double tracks from a single input track.
• Manually adjust the pitch and timing of your tracks with an easy to use graphical interface.

Post Production using Revoice Pro 4

• Lip-sync dialogue (ADR) and vocals by the same or different performers, even when there are noisy guide tracks.
• Change the inflection in dialogue (ADR, voice-overs etc.) with the desired Guide pattern provided by recording the director or dialogue editor.

Audio Performance Transfer (APT) Process

The APT Process transfers user-selected timing, pitch and level characteristics of a good “Guide” audio signal to one or more audio signals – automatically.

At the heart of Revoice Pro is Syncro Arts’ unique Audio Performance Transfer (APT) process, that allows the user to clone the timing, pitch, vibrato and level features of one audio track and use it on another, giving you the chance to match or correct timing, tuning and level.

Applications for the APT process include:

• Vocal and instrumental double tracks: Tighten the timing, pitch and vibrato of “stacked” tracks while keeping them natural-sounding.
• Dialogue replacement: Lip-sync dialogue (ADR) and vocals by the same or different performers, even when there are noisy guide tracks.
• Transfer a performance: Change the inflection in dialogue (ADR, voice-overs etc.) with the desired pattern changes provided by recording the director or dialogue editor’s voices.
• Fix corrupted live vocal recordings: Replace and sync problematic vocals with clean retakes

Description of the APT Processing

The user loads or transfers the Guide and Target (Dub) audio to be processed into the Revoice Pro program from DAWs or audio files. The Guide signal should have the “perfect” features: either timing, pitch or both.

However, if your Guide audio needs further time or pitch modifications, you can use Revoice Pro’s new built-in Warp function to quickly and transparently adjust the Guide’s (or lead harmony parts’) timing and pitch.

In Revoice Pro, you can insert APT function blocks wherever you want them in dedicated “tracks” under each audio track that show where the processing starts and stops. You also chose the initial settings.

The APT process first determines the timing relationship between key features of the Guide and Target (Dub) audio signals using state-of-the-art pattern recognition algorithms based partly on Synchro Arts’ VocALign technology.

User-selected Guide performance features are transferred to the Target audio to create a new Modified Target signal with the selected Guide features. Next, the APT process measures performance-related features (such as timing, pitch, vibrato and level) of both the “Guide” (which usually has certain preferred performance characteristics) and one or more Targets (Dub) signals.

The transfer process usually includes the timing alignment, so Guide features are incorporated at precisely the correct places along the Target. However, this is an option.

If satisfactory, the processed Dub(s) can be instantly transferred back to the DAW via a number of methods including Revoice Pro Link plug-ins, drag & drop or copy & paste.

Important Features of ATP

• The “tightness” of the transferred feature can be controlled to allow natural acceptable differences to pass through unchanged.
• Optional user-inserted “Protected Regions” allow selected sections of the Dub signals to be left unchanged in timing or pitch by the APT process.
• The automatic APT processing can be followed by (or replaced by) manual editing of the output features.
• APT Pitch (and other feature’s) processing settings can be made time-varying (automated).
• “Process-based” solo switching, via single keys, provides instant audition to compare inputs and outputs one or two signals at a time.
• The effects of any changes made to APT control panel parameters will be immediately visible (after rendering) in the displayed output graphics of pitch, level and waveform traces.
• Multiple Dub signals can use the same Guide and be efficiently processed at the same time.
• A comprehensive Preset system allows saving and reusing settings.

Doubler

The Doubler – instantly create natural-sounding mono and stereo double tracks for voice and instruments or, crank the parameters for more extreme modulation style effects on your tracks. A great time-saving process often referred to as ‘the secret weapon’ in modern vocal production.

Applications for Doubler

• Creating realistic double tracks from vocal or instrument recording when no double track is available.
• Create a wide range of special modulation effects.

Process Details

• Inputs can be mono or stereo signals.
• Doubler automatically creates natural-sounding mono or stereo double tracks in seconds.
• Provides controls for modifying timing variations, formants, and vibrato.
• Supports extreme parameter variations to create special effects.
• Comprehensive user Preset system.

Warp

Simple, fast adjustments with maximum quality- for voice and monophonic instruments.

In Revoice Pro 4, manual Pitch and Time Warping of audio are intuitive, making it easy to select and manipulate timing and pitch whilst providing the highest audio quality. The controls allow selection over any range and cursor tool changes to show what will move. Automatic snap to pitch option, plus play loops and undo functions make adjustments fast and easy.

Applications for Warp processes

• Improving or altering the pitch and/or timing of tracks that are used as Guide tracks in APT or Doubler processes.
• Correcting or altering the pitch of a harmony track before using it as a Dub input to an APT process that will have only its timing aligned to the Guide. The output of this APT process can then become a harmony Guide track for automatically aligning the time and pitch of double tracks of this harmony part.
• Manually adjusting the pitch and time of a solo vocal or any voice recording.
• If required, making minor adjustments to the features in the output of an APT process.
• Modifying signal levels.

A powerful advantage of keeping time and pitch adjustments within Revoice Pro 4 is that any additional time and/or pitch changes to Guide or Input tracks will be passed automatically into the outputs of all processes using these inputs. This means that dependant audio tracks will always be in time and in sync instantly.

Warp Processing Details

There are now three new methods for manual Timing and Pitch Warping audio in Revoice Pro. However, the tools available in all of these are operated similarly.

The quick-access cursor tool’s function changes simply by moving the cursor position around the note selection blocks. This way, pitch traces can be shifted, squeezed, tilted and even inverted instantly by dragging the note-box sides or corners. Time and level can be manipulated similarly and easily.

Moreover – there is a Correct Pitch function for a quick snap-to-grid process which will automatically adjust a large proportion of out-of-tune notes to more acceptable tunings. However, in any processing, the most important element is sound quality – which in Revoice Pro 4, remains natural and transparent for moderate changes.

For working with low or high pitched instruments or voices, the pitch processing ranges can be extended down to bass instrument ranges or up to flute ranges- to maintain the highest quality processing.

The Warp Region Process

• Adjustments are made to a single audio region in the same track as the input audio Region and the adjusted output is heard replacing the input audio.
• This is meant for making large and small corrections or creative changes to the timing and pitch of voice and monophonic instruments to create perfected lead, harmony, ADR or voice-over parts.

The Warp Process

• Like the APT or Doubler, the Warp process can (from part of a region or even from multiple regions) and allow creative adjustments and corrections to be applied to the input audio. But in this case, the Warp Process results are sent to an Output track – i.e. not in the same track as the input audio.
• The Warp process takes its input from any length of audio in one track, from part of one region to spanning multiple regions. The output of the Warp process is sent to a designated output track where the adjustments are made. The input track is left unchanged.
• Revoice Pro 4 – Three Warp Points inserted and moved
• Three Warp Points inserted and moved

Warp Points

• Warp points can be used to time stretch the signal between two points.
• Vibrato Warp Points allow you to time-stretch or compress signals containing vibrato without modifying the vibrato rate.
• You can also use speed points to gradually change the rate of time stretch.

What’s new in Revoice Pro 4?

With the release of Revoice Pro 4, Synchro Arts have continued to push the boundaries of what a vocal production tool can achieve, with better sounding and more musically pleasing automatic alignment and vocal vibrato adjustment, even faster workflow utilising the cutting edge ARA2 protocol and iLok Cloud based authorisation with no USB dongle. These along with the over 70 other new features and improvements mean Revoice Pro 4 truly is the ultimate toolbox for timing and pitch adjustment.

Fast & Affordable Vocal Tuning Plugin

RePitch Elements successfully overcomes the difficulty of obtaining properly tuned vocals that don’t sound processed or artificial, allowing defects and imperfections to be eliminated without detracting from the mood or vibe of the performance.

RePitch’s instant automatic pitch correction, which is powered by cutting-edge musical note detection technology, may be implemented in a matter of seconds. For more thorough editing, simply open the collection of manual tools for further fine-tuning and adjusting.

RePitch Elements is a revolutionary vocal pitch and timing correction tool that was created with the unwavering participation of Grammy-winning producers and engineers from around the world.

Overview

• Enhanced musical pitch analysis – RePitch identifies notes in your vocal based on the fundamental principles of human pitch perception. You’ll be amazed at how incredibly natural and ‘undoctored’ RePitch’s processing sounds, even with the most extreme edits.

• Easy to use tuning tools – RePitch not only makes it possible to instantly correct the pitch of an entire vocal track, it also has a basic set of intuitive editing tools for fine tuning a performance. So you can take command of pitch, vibrato and more, with a slick, intuitive workflow that never gets in your way.

• Scale Detection – Once your vocal is successfully loaded, RePitch will analyse pitches within the signal and suggest the most likely scale. This makes it possible to snap notes in your performance to the detected scale making tuning faster and easier than ever. It’s also possible to manually set the scale too.

• Macros – Pitch correct your vocals in just a few mouse clicks using the range of macros in RePitch. Just make a selection, load your audio and let RePitch do the rest, it’s that simple. Professional-grade tuning without hours of manual work.

• Full ARA2 Integration With Compatible DAWs – ARA, or Audio Random Access, is a revolutionary audio plug-in extension that enables unprecedented instant communication between ARA-enabled plug-ins and DAWs. The huge time-saving benefit for RePitch users is that real-time audio capture is no longer necessary as audio files can be instantly captured, updated and returned to your DAW.

• Fully Resizable GUI – With a completely resizable GUI, RePitch can be as big or as small as you need to be, depending on which controls you need to see.