Does someone use ReaTune?

[Tricky-Loops]

I have this ReaTune plugin in REAPER but I've never used it for vocals...

Do you use it, and if you do - how do you use it?

Is it worth to learn to work with it? Or does it lack some important features for pitch correction and harmonizing? Can it be compared to Waves Tune and similar plugins?

[Burillo]

it works quite well for what it's designed to do, but IMO other tools are better if you need any advanced editing (like timing, formant and such). manual mode is IMO cumbersome to use and doesn't produce good results quite as often as it does bad ones. so i mainly use it as a tuner and a poor man's autocorrection, but anything more serious i opt for other tools. not saying you can't produce decent results with it, it's just suitable for a smaller range of situations than other tools.

[Tricky-Loops]

Thanks for the feedback, Burillo.

I was hoping there were loads of people using ReaTune, doesn't look like that...

[meloco_go]

Well, I use it quite often. Luckily I most of the time I get vocals that need little correction, so I just slap it in auto mode just to make notes little more even. In auto mode it can be set to be pretty non-intrusive.
Give it at least a try before looking for something else.

[electricthing]

I use it sometimes in manual mode and the 1 or 2 notes it can't fix in a song I try a different method, like using a different part.
Use Reaper half a year now and was pleasantly surprised with the options Reatune gives (and with the rest of Reaper of course).
Read the manual before hand and give it a go, you'll find out what it can do for you.

[Mudcat007]

It's not Melodyne but I find it's fine for slight pitch adjustments. If a note is so far off it can't be unobtrusively corrected with ReaTune I'd say that section of the track ought to be recut. That's just from my perspective though.

[Tricky-Loops]

Thanks for the feedback. Maybe I should really try it. So far I felt in love with ReaComp, ReaEQ, ReaPitch, ReaGate, ReaFIR and ReaSample5000 - but I've never tried ReaTune...

I don't need T-Pain "singing-with-closed-nose" vocals, either, just some minor (or major) pitch correction because I hate all these artificial Autotune/Melodyne stuff...

[arkmabat]

how do you use it?

"Roll your own Autotune" Article:
http://www.jakerock.com/DIYAUDIO_articl ... Pitch_.htm

No idea to the other questions, never tried it. It's not in the freebie bundle, probably since it utilizes the élastique library.

[Tricky-Loops]

how do you use it?

"Roll your own Autotune" Article:
http://www.jakerock.com/DIYAUDIO_articl ... Pitch_.htm

That's the approach for guys who don't know any music theory. Because without analyzing, you cannot know how many cents you have to correct...

[datroof]

Pretty much all of the Reaper tools are quite good, including ReaTune. As others have said, it's no Melodyne but it's perfectly fine for most pitch-correction situations.

[RunBeerRun]

I hate ReaTune, the latency is terrible, doesn't do a good robotic autotune well, it's a very useful plugin to have included but I'd like to see some serious work done and stop listening to pointless forum suggestions(Reaper forum).

[nineofkings]

It does a very good robotic autotuned sound (and has a smoother overall sound) if, in the tab where it analyzes the pitch, you set the overlap to x2.

[arkmabat]

how do you use it?

"Roll your own Autotune" Article:
http://www.jakerock.com/DIYAUDIO_articl ... Pitch_.htm

That's the approach for guys who don't know any music theory. Because without analyzing, you cannot know how many cents you have to correct...

I think the idea is to get the vocal to sound right , not just align to an exact pitch frequency.

[Agreed]

I haven't found a lot of use for it as a replacement for Autotune or related software, personally, but it's very useful as a highly accurate instrument tuner, easily accurate enough for setting intonation - as such, it's become my favorite digital tuner, and I like the dynamically resized UI. Accurate, fast, low CPU overhead, good to stick a small one somewhere and make sure you're staying in tune. I haven't found a lot of DSP tuners that are precise enough to make intonating the guitar a quick and easy process, but ReaTune makes it simple. I haven't tried Peterson's Strobotuner software because I just haven't felt the need.

So as a pitch adjuster, ehh... It's free with the DAW, so give it a shot I guess before paying for more robust software because hey why not, it's there. But as a tuner, for precise and for quick stuff alike, it rocks

[gavriloP]

I prefer not to use these autotune like pitch corrections for vocals but I've managed to get ok results with ReaTune in manual mode as long as I don't tamper with vibratos. They can become pretty robotic fast.

But when I need pitch correction I do this in REAPER: I use ReaTune's manual correction page but don't do any actual corrections with it, I just use it as visual aid along my ears. Instead of autotuning I use take/pitch-envelopes on clips to fix the off-key notes. This way they won't still be 100% in key if there is some drifting within a note but the results are much more natural. REAPER's algos have tendency to make click noises when I use pitch-envelope on audible part but that can be avoided by splitting clips and giving each clip it's own even pitch value. Just remember to be sure you crossfade those clips with each other. I have that "show clips in separate lanes" on and also I don't use automatic crossfading but rather do it by hand.

I don't do this with just vocals but also with stuff like flutes and trumpets because my playing really isn't so good with them.