It's often good to listen in context with the entire song and not just listening to your vocal in solo. When we listen to our vocal in solo ( meaning muting all other tracks), we don't get the right representation of the sound.įor example, often times listening to a lead vocal in solo will sound like it has 'too much' autotune. You may want to dial it up or down depending on the feel you want for the song. Therefore, it's important to get record a quality vocal before adding autotune. By the way, autotune can only work with your vocal recording.

Play around and adjust the “limit to key' option to find the right amount of autotune you would like to add to your voice. 0 means no autotune and 100 has a lot of autotune. Notice the slider on the left hand side ( see image below). In order to turn it on, click on the window using the scissors button or pressing E on your keyboard. Let's first take a look at pitch correction, which is built into GarageBand, and also available in the parent DAW, Logic Pro. Here is a great post on how to add a plugin in Logic Pro which is a very similar user experience to GarageBand. Right click and you'll open up the plugin options. If you're unfamiliar with adding a plugin, simply hover just beneath one of the blue plugin pills. In the controls window, we are able to locate our plugins, the ones that I want to highlight in this post are the built-in pitch correction (which is autotune) and a paid autotune plug-in which is manufactured by another provider. In order to use pitch correction, press B, on your keyboard to gain access to the controls window. Inside GarageBand, autotune is also known as pitch correction. Even your favourite singers in pop, indie, whatever is, I can guarantee they use slight amounts of autotune on their vocals. On the other hand, if you are a producer working in Logic Pro then please refer to my posy on how to use autotune in Logic Pro.Īutotune is popular among all genres of music.

Let's dig into this a littler further and look at how to use autotune in GarageBand.īy the way, if you'd rather watch a video on how to use autotune in GarageBand then you can do so below. If you're looking to develop your taste in music production within GarageBand then you might enjoy: But of course, like anything, and depending on the genre, autotune comes down to taste and necessity. To some, it may sound over used or perhaps even 'wrong'. Autotune is a very important part of music production.

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