How to Set Up Live Auto-Tune for Worship Vocals
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I’ve done this using Mainstage only so I could have individual patches with the correct key for correction on each song. Then I just had my Ableton computer running tracks queuing program changes wirelessly for each Patch or “song”. Using Dante can be tricky though with Latency being your biggest block, we have up to 6 computers on our Dante networks a time so I had to switch to using a dedicated Interface connected to Mainstage for the Autotune. It works!
Can you advise on this?
That's the question for me, what's overall latency accumulated? Is if over 5-10ms?
Hi please make a video on tuning the vocals with midi in waves tune on FL studio and if you can monitor live while midi tuning.
Great software solution. I’ve been using a Mic Mechanic as a hardware solution for a while now. Little bit of tuning makes a huge difference.
Judson Yutzy true. Such a small cost yo improve things a lot
Hey, greetings from Cuba! Finally somebody talks about this process on live performance...excellent video!!! Saludos
Great stuff Jake, thanks much for taking the time to show in very clear terms and instructions how this is set up and how it actually works in real time.
Great video! Thanks for keeping the church “in the loop” when it comes to live sound tech!
I've into Facebook groups asking how to do this and they all say that because if the delay in processing is not worth using autotune live. but this gives me hope and an idea of how to do it! is just what I needed!
I can't thank you enough!!
Yeah there some latency but with this setup, it's not enough latency to keep you from doing it successfully.
@@Churchfront as long as is not noticeable to the congregation, that's all that matters. Thanks & God bless you! 🙏🏻
Thanks man!! Gotta convince my leaders we need this, haha! Already got a X32 desk.
I recommend if you have sound enginner for more accurate pitch correction you can save presets for each song with the correct key to speed up the configs...with this you can avoid some "wrong hard tuned notes" but of course as you say...it take time anyway
Or you just automate the Autotune key and (on/off during spoken sections) in your tracks/click/guide template.
Exactly@@FWBeck
I recommend the singer learning to sing
@@derekrushe so why are you interested in this video if you do not like pimping the voice? Do you go without FX, taking the room reverbing as it does?
@@ghkrause7805 that's not pimping, autotune, especially live takes the humanity out of the vocal.
Thank you sir for the video..routing part helps me alot.. God bless you
thanks bro, i learned so much from you, now my church have grow so much in tech. thanks a lot.
What a great and helpful video, thanks man!
Thank you for this video. I have an important question:
If I have a song that's already fully recorded and mixed, can I run the Bus channel that all of my FX are on (for my vocals), directly into the sound board and basically use the same exact vocal setup I have on my already mixed track, for live performances? (Using this same setup you have with the Dante Expansion Card of course)
Hey jake - Thanks for sharing this video. We are working on setting autotune for our praise and worship teams and found this video super helpful. Question for you regarding Dante. You mentioned you would not need dante in order to have the autotune plugin in order to get get autotune applied to the vocals or this technique to work. However, will you still be able be able to send each microphone as separate tracks into protools / computer for the recording without dante? Or is dante a part of getting individual tracks from each mic recorded and with their own autotune attached to the track. I hope this makes sense. I am still learning the language to speak is technical terms. Essentially the goal it to have 3 separate vocals, each with autotune adjusting the vocals coming into the computer for recording and out to the speakers for the congregation to hear the pitch corrected vocals. thanks so much and look forward to hearing back
Clear and concise video. Nice job, thank you
Thank you so so much for this detailed explanation!
Excellent. Thanks. Could you do a similar video for setting up a stereo IEM mix on the X32 please?
Very cool! I always thought that one must have the Waves WSG card to take advantage of Waves plugin processing. Never really realized that you can use a Dante card to get the job done as well. Do you have any idea about the latency differences between these two methods? Or would you say that the Dante way is pretty much a (almost) zero latency solution as well? :)
I am blown away by this video. Thanks. But I am 50/50 on this. Authenticity vs excellence.
Joel Jack do you use reverb? Same thing
@@newwalkchurchnj9848 Love this thought. I'd go even further and say that live pitch correction IS like reverb, only significantly LESS obvious if done correctly!
@@newwalkchurchnj9848 I think there is a significant difference between reverb/delay, which are used to enhance a vocal and pitch correction software, which is used to make the wrong or partly wrong notes sound right. I never knew churches use pitch correction software. While I don't know what to think of this, it cannot be compared to the concept of using vocal effects.
@@esongsore exactly. Generational thing I reckon. To hard to sing in tune and balance vocals with your other singers? Use auto tune! This is a joke and cop out
In My Opinion, I would totally have this as dry/wet channels like the way you have it. The autotune is very noticable when speaking, certain words or phrases sound modulated. For sure you wouldnt want your online viewers to hear that (only if you live stream) during service. When vocalists want to speak, mute the wet channel and turn on the dry vocal channel. when its time to sing, it would be the opposite. You could create snippets on the console to automate this for you and it would take out the steps of having to mute and unmute the channels. Great stuff Jake.
Or just setup a midi controller to bypass the plugin- then the performer can do it
Hey Jake what about latency from the Dante to ableton and back how do you compensate that?
Following just in case he answers.
This was very helpful... we are looking into this now.. does this help with singers on live streaming?? We are really struggling with our vocals sounding pitchy on livestream.
If only I could auto-tune the congregation. JK
#micdrop turn down for what!
Well then come to South Africa and be part of a Zulu congregation!
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Super dope intro video jake !!!!!
during this year, I plan to upgrade from Reason 11 intro to FULL; - meanwhile I have a big collection of vst plugins + rack extensions ...if I miraculously come into a blob of extra money then I will get this also...
Hi, I use backing tracks for a solo vocal gig... so all I need is a good vocal... can you advise me how I can do this? Thanks so much
hey man thanks so mutch for this video this really helped me out at my own church exactly what a wanted tips on ...
Hi, thanks so much for share your knowledge, in my church we recently buy an X32 but don't come whit a Dante, came whit X-UBS, do you can make a video in the same process whit X-usb?
Just started using this and wow!
This was awesome! What’s the smallest board the this would work like for a solo performer that doesn’t need 32 channels?
would this work with Studio One 4? I guess this is the DAW my church uses
Jake man, it's uncanny, but I'm running Ableton Live 10 and was just this week asking my Sweetwater Rep about Waves Tune and comparability as a VST - you literally just demo'd the setup I was considering! What kind of CPU load have you noticed when running 3 channels, and any noticable latency? I'm already pushing tracks and Midi out of Session View, and I hover around 15-20% CPU... Want to add this as well without breaking everything. Sweet idea having a redundant analogue vocal channel to fall back on in the event of a crash :). Great stuff as always.
Can i use Focusrite 2i4 if i dont have a digital mixer ?
Whelp, you got a subscriber! Can't wait to see whatcha got to show!
Not sure if this would work too well but, if you had a gate on the raw vocals with it's key source set to the autotuned vocals then you wouldn't have to worry if ableton crashes all of your raw vocals will automatically go through. With a very low threshold and short hold+release ofc
IF you don’t have extra channels, IF you don’t have a computer, IF you’re using an analog mixer, IF your sound person can’t figure it out, IF you’re traveling to different venues weekly and using their board...and you still need tuning...use something like the TC Helicon Voicetone...plug it in between the main snake XLR and your VOX mic XLR, set your parameters/sensitivity, and your good to go.
That's what we use
@@OffGridandOutdoors how well does this thing work. I'm looking for a solution to minor pitchiness. As far as in ear monitoring goes, is it possible to listen to the raw vocal coming out if this is plugged in? Like he said in the video, I'm not sure it would be good to here the corrected pitch in the monitors.
I use a TC Helicon voice play live on my mic. Still using floor monitors. Hearing the corrected signal in your monitor actually helps you get on pitch.
@churchfront great video. I'm just confused... why it you're showing both ableton and then protocols as well?
Excellent Video!
thanks!
Het Jake! quick question, is this possible using an analog console using an interface?
Such a quality vid my dude
From your videos, I’m assuming you are the WL of the same band every service?
Or do you have other leaders that use the same gear?
We have 5 different leaders with 2 services each Sunday.
Implementing new gear is an obstacle with different generations having to deal with it.
Different learning curves, etc.
Hi I cant download the toolkit that you are offering. I have tried several times but says that needs the administration permission. Please send me this would be great for the church
Jake - can/does Ableton Live on a separate computer negate the need for a WAVES server (because you're running the plug-in within Ableton Live, instead of running it on SoundGrid)? I'm trying to understand why you're using Ableton Live. Thanks!
thanks for the advise. God bless you
Great video, thank you!
How do you deal with delays? My Church in Nigeria does not have digital mixer. But I tried sending the Master mix to my Behringer Audio Interface, and processing to the input track and it plays back through the audio interface. But the delay is quite noticeable even after reducing my buffer size. Any advice on what you think I can do?
If I'm running from M32 to DAW through USB, do you have tips to reduce latency? Currently it's a little too noticeable, even in the house, for it to be viable.
THANK YOU ALOT FOR THIS TUTORIAL COULD I ALSO GET THIS WORK WITH AN AUDIO INTERFACE LIKE FOCUSRITE SCARLETT IF I ONLY NEED ONE MIC AND MY PC ?
I WOULD TAKE THE SPEAKERS WHO ARE available THERE
this is a great help...can i request another type of plug-in like for an example in drums channel..thanks..
GOD BLESS YOURE ALL
You could automate per each track so you tune to the songs key
Hi ! Your video is so helpful ☺️ l am trying out the Waves with a Focusrite Scarlett and there is a lot of latency, any clue about how to reduce it?
Interesting setup. 2 Questions: How are you interfacing the Dante (Cat6) into the MacBook? 2) What sort of round trip latency are you incurring going A/D>protools>plugins>D/A?
I am wondering the same thing. Is it discernible?
Hi please make a video on tuning the vocals with midi in waves tune on FL studio and if you can monitor live while midi tuning.
@churchfront with Jake Gosselin, do you guys just leave waves RT on chromatic?, or set midi cues for each song to change the Key?
This is the same question I have, at the same time what if the singer is speaking?
Jake, good stuff, but we don't have Dante or Ableton. Just an X32 with USB connection to an HP Laptop doing multitrack recording on Cakewalk. Is there a way to use this setup without all the middle man software?? I need to keep things super simple for my not-so-techie tech team.
Question. If you assign the 8 channels to Ableton do you lose 8 extra channels on your board?
Could you do a similar setting where you run the microphone into the computer, and then make an output from the computer into the mixer? or would that cause too much latency? My mixer don't support dante, so i'm looking for other ways to make this work
Possibly, but other audio interfaces may introduce a lot more latency than Dante. In theory there is no reason this wouldn't work though! :)
if use dante card.. do you have less latency enough compare to the usb connection
This is awesome!
I am a solo artist in be need of some vocal assistance,
32 channels is a bit pricey for me. Can I use a 16 track or less to save money?
Thank you for all this information
God bless
I have Wavestune on my macbook, running it with logic pro x. How can i route this to live performance on stage the best way? Let's say i have 8 songs that i will perform and i want autotune to be in key for each song. and how do i get around latency? appreciate answers!!
Love it... 🙏🙏🙏
Hey I use waves tune too. Really great plugin for the price.
Hi please make a video on tuning the vocals with midi in waves tune on FL studio and if you can monitor live while midi tuning.
Do you have any issues with it trying to tune bleed?
What the latency that comes realtime fx when run through computer
We use a X32 rack for a broadcast mixer.
We use the Wing for our front of house and go out of the wing using the AES 50 outfit to go into the x30 to broadcast make sure
Most of the channels are spoken for so I cannot just come back from the computer into a separate channel.
How would I insert the signal coming out of the computer into channel on the X 32 much like I would insert efx signal?
Or could I route it into the auxiliary input and then route the auxiliary input into the channel for mixing for the broadcast?
Hi Jake,
Do you have a round trip latency measurement for this setup? While it’s great to have this flexibility, you can create a lot of problems by adding >12ms of latency. It’s also important to mention that if you have a lot of stage volume then this won’t work very well because your vocals will be tuned with everything else going into those vocal mics too. So if I have a loud amp behind my vocal mic, the pitch correction will affect that too, making it sound like my guitar is out of tune/phase-y.
In that case I'd say think about changing your stage layout. Always best to not place vocal mics directly in front of amps, acoustic drums, anything that makes noise.
Same question for me about latency / phasis. For the loudness around, I think it's necessary to use his 2 channel technique. He's cleaning the signal whith eq/comp/gate in the first channel BEFORE sending it to vocal tune....
Newb question, can I run pitch correction software using a XR18 mixer?
Can you use apple's MainStage instead of Ableton Live? Just curious...
Do I need a digital mixer or would an analogue be able to process this without latency issues?
Actually it sounds to aggressive for me and some times I can hear the „hard tuned notes“ clearly. I would definitely turn that 100% to an 60 or so😬😉
But thanks for the impressions 💪🏻 We have a DLive from Allen and heath in our church and it works well with it.
You should've change to Waves Tune to a Major key that you were playing in with your demo at the end for us to also hear that difference. And also show how to with the built in usb interface.
can you do this with a analog board or is that a dumb question?
What's lowest version of Ableton will this run on? The $79 version?
Sir... How about you dont have dante??? Is it still possible??? We only have mixing console
Can this be done with analog mixers?
Here's my biggest problem, I try to do live tune in post production and always run in to phasing with the room mics/live mics. Any helpful hints with that?
Will this work with the Allen&Heath SQ series console
Great presentation but Link to toolkit isn’t working
are you coming out USB or Dante from the M32?
Are you able to do a tutorial without the Dante setup and how it will work with protools or Ableton?
Can this tune real time be used with Logic Pro instead of ableton Live? And in case it must be be ableton live? Can I use Ableton Live beta?
I use this same set-up at my church (sending from my SQ6 board with USB to Ableton for processing--and then back into the board on a different channel), but I get quite a bit of latency. I am surprised he did not address this in the video! Anyone have any thoughts on how to reduce the latency that inevitably results from this set-up? Thanks!
Will this plug in work with a behringer x32
Can you link the hardware you use to get the signal from the board to Dante? Just an Ethernet router or is it a special piece of equipment
Or is it run straight from the back of the board to the Mac?
I have a Roland m5000 and Dante sound card. Would I be able to do this with those pieces of equipment?
I was literally just trying to figure this out last night.
So was I, just in time :)
Thank you!
What I need is something going out over live feed to UA-cam, which come from 2 channels that used to be for IEMs but I redid them for live feed, which comes out of the back of the board up to the balcony (crow's nest) and through our Atem mini pro and out to UA-cam. I use a computer to adjust the sound separate from the auditorium. It really needs some help
Finally 🙌
Can I use like a scarlet interface instead of a mixer (or Dante)
Can you add a compressor plugin and reverb or delay as well on Ableton Live on your vocal?
Alex R Yes, but maybe only a basic compressor and multiband compressor. Leave the reverb and delay for the sound engineer on his console.
For those running your own sound, without the luxury of a sound engineer, the best way I have found to run auto tune in real time is as follows. Create a saved preset for your desired settings in autotune such as (re-tune speed, humanize, etc.) Change your recording settings to (record automation). Then youre going to want to play your set and also hit record on your vocal channel. You can then change keys in real time for each song, turn on and off auto tune such as parts where you are talking to crowd, and also even change you re-tune speeds and settings as needed if some some require more or less tuning. This avoids you having to create multiple vocal channels and allow you to cleanly keep your channels to a minimum while having the keys for each song and settings for each song change automatically through the recorded automation. The ONLY thing that you will have to do each time you open up your session, is load your pre-saved setting, and then simply change the key and scale to what the first song should be to trigger the automation correctly when the set starts. You also will have to change the style vocal such a low male, or tenor. Everything else saves as a preset in auto tune except those two or so settings. Once you do that and hit play, the auto tune settings will change automatically to exactly how you recorded it. It’s time sensitive, but literally the most effective way to run it on your own without relying on multiple channels or a sound guy. Make sure your vocal channel has input monitoring turned on or you won’t get any vocal sound.
Would I be able to do this with a yamaha analog mixer that has usb to laptop connection capability?
Hey so could it work with Mainstage?
Does anyone know if you have to use Waves MultiRack Plug-in Host, for the Waves realtime auto tune to work in a Live FOH M32 mixer? I know the Waves Card has a lower latency than the Dante Card.
bonjour !
c'est possible avec une sq6 et fl studio ?
What about delay? Is it noticeable for live worship?
Hello Jake, I know this is probably a simple solution, but given that I'm not using local INs, I feel like I'm missing a step in translating your set up to my set up. How did you send the signal of channel one over to channel two? For example, our board is set for my vocal to be on 25, but we want to route the tuned vocal to 14.
He used the Dante network to send the dry vocals to Ableton, and returned the tuned vocals from Ableton the the tuned input channels on the board.
Im a drummer so I do not understand the whole (Chromatic, Major, Minor) scale options IN WAVES TUNE.
If the song is in the key of "A", how different it would it sound if I select "Chromatic" instead of "A Major" in waves tune?