My oh my, when we played around with this, we could hear the incredible harmonies and it inspired us with floods of track ideas! Favourite Feature Robot will make your vocals stay on one note, which you can adjust using your pitch knob, or alternatively play it with midi. This will give you the entire wet signal and entire dry signal to play around with to your liking & mix to perfection. We recommend using it on a bus, with the mix turned fully wet. It’s great to add harmonic effects to your vocals. You can use the mix knob to precisely dial in as much of the effect as you want to the dry signal of your audio. In laymen’s terms – the vocals with the effect on and the vocals without the effect on.

The mix knob is pretty self-explanatory, it just adjusts the mix between dry and wet versions of the vocals.

One will completely decimate your audio and the other will add a little bit of warmth. You can either add a little tube saturation to your mix, or a lot. The tone of the drive is very full and warm, and is modelled after the super classic tube saturation sounds that, the heavyweight: Soundtoys Decapitator, is famous for. The drive control allows you to add tube saturation to your audio. Soundtoys Little Alterboy Drive and Mix controls Drive Let’s skip over the pitch shifting section and focus on the drive controls (seen below). This bad boy allows you to control the sex of the vocal sample.įor instance: by lowering the formant control, you can turn a female voice into a male voice.Ī great thing to try when layering vocals, is adjusting the formants of the individual vocal parts, to make your vocal mixes sound warmer and fuller.

Next to the pitch knob, you can find a dial that controls the formants of your vocal. The Soundtoys Little Alterboy also does formant shifting. The pitch knob also uses a far superior algorithm and allows for far more options. TIP: if you hold shift, you can adjust the pitch shifting incrementally, without any quantization to the nearest semitoneĪnd, when comparing Alterboy vs Ableton’s built-in pitch control algorithms, the Alterboy beats it by a mile & sounds completely natural when adjusting your vocals within an octave range. Using the pitch knob, you can adjust the pitch of your vocal in semitone increments.

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