Computer Music choice

If you have tuning issues or want that ‘Auto-tune’ effect then there are a couple of obvious contenders, the most obvious being the daddy of them all, AutoTune Pro. It’s managed to stay ahead of the rest by heaping in some wonderful and easy to implement features, over and above that classic vocal effect and has almost become the ‘Hoover’ of plugins along the way. That said, if you want the quick, down and dirty version then Soundtoys’ Little AlterBoy impresses us with its simplistic but beautiful approach to not only Auto-Tune style effects, but brilliant male to female and female to male formant editing and more.

For more refined pitch editing, Celemony’s Melodyne will always be the black magic plugin that will impress with its abilities, particularly the Editor version upwards that contains the DNA algorithm and polyphonic audio editing. But it does cost, so if you are after its basic functionality and a whole lot more, we have to throw iZotope’s Nectar 3 Plus into the ring as a great option, which gives you module upon module of vocal editing options, the miraculous Vocal Assistant feature and even a version of Melodyne thrown in – all for $249!