Waves Tune Real-Time

Waves’ rather-late-to-the-party Auto-Tune competitor, Tune Real-Time employs “innovative pitch detection and correction technologies” to “ensure that the tuned vocal retains the vocalist’s natural vocal sound.” Its intuitive interface offers control of pitch range, selection of scales and particular notes to tune to and/or avoid, vibrato tuning, and input of tracking pitch via MIDI. As well as natural-sounding correction of wayward vocals, it can also, of course, generate the pitch quantising effects for which auto-tuning is best known.

Waves Tune Real-Time is out now for Mac and PC, priced $200.

URL www.waves.com

Audified STA Effects

The second generation of Audified’s STA (Summing Tube Amplifier) Effects bundle sees an overhaul of the GUIs and algorithms behind the existing five plugins – Preamp, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser and Enhancer – and the addition of the allnew STA Delay. All six use parallel signal paths and tube emulation to add warmth and analogue texture to the source signal. “They are an exact simulation of vintage valve circuitry’s characteristic behaviour,” says Marketing Director Jakub Turecek. STA Effects is out now for Mac and PC, priced $129.

URL www.audified.com

BandLab 3.0

BandLab, the free cross-platform cloudbased music collaboration app, has been upgraded to version 3.0, adding a number of new features.

BandLab Shouts enable users to share pictures and photos, with captions, in the usual social media kind of way. Rather more exciting are the onboard drum machine and guitar effects, which, although modest at just 18 sounds and 12 presets respectively, should prove useful. There are also several new soundbanks and a new loop library, searchable by genre and instrument. Sign up now to give it a try!

URL www.bandlab.com

Ju-X Frosting

A “real-time audio freezer and microlooper”, Frosting conjures a range of rhythmic effects from a captured audio loop, including gating, glitching, stuttering and beat repeating.

It works by freezing a chunk of the incoming audio signal into a “microloop”, which is then played forwards or backwards, either synced to host or at a manually set tempo. You then use the eight-step gate sequencer to program rhythmic patterns with your frozen microloop, scaling its playback speed with the Duration controls.

Frosting is available now in VST/AU/AAX formats for Mac and PC, priced $19. Look out for the review in a forthcoming issue.

URL www.ju-x.com