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Synchro Arts VocAlign Ultra - New Plugin Offers Time And Pitch Alignment

Synchro Arts provides stellar time correction with Vocalign and pitch correction with Revoice Pro. Imagine a plugin resulting from the merging of the best parts of both. Welcome to Vocalign Ultra!

In a brand new easy to use interface, both timing and pitch correcting between multiple tracks are no more than a few mouse clicks away. VocAlign Ultra features new tightness knobs for both timing and pitch, so you decide how much time and pitch alignment you want to apply to your signals.

Formant shifting is easily adjusted right on the main page to add thickness and texture to doubled vocals. There is also an advanced mode for more nuanced control over transposition, target matching, and more. 

In this video, see some of the new features at work on a lead vocal with two doubles, using the real-time ARA version in Logic Pro. 

VocAlign Ultra Main Features

  • Instantly Match Timing and Pitch of Two or More Signals

  • Great for Vocals, Instruments and Sound Effects

  • Includes our Revoice Pro Alignment Algorithm

  • NEW! Tightness Control

  • NEW! Match Pitch Section

  • NEW! 60+ Alignment Presets

  • NEW! Enhanced Waveform and Pitch Displays

  • NEW! Fully Resizable GUI Window

  • NEW! Advanced and Basic Editing Panels

  • Sync Points and Protected Areas

  • NEW! Two activations included with each license

  • NEW! All iLok Copy Protection options supported (no iLok USB dongle needed)

  • Full ARA2 (Audio Random Access) support for enhanced workflow with compatible DAWs

Latest Audio Alignment Technology

VocAlign Ultra boasts our very latest alignment technology from our award-winning flagship software, Revoice Pro. This means you can align longer and complex vocal sections in seconds with unprecedented accuracy and ease, reducing the need for any manual editing and potentially saving hours of your time that can be spent on more creative tasks.

Tightness Control

For complete creative freedom, VocAlign Ultra features new tightness controls so you decide how much alignment you want to apply to your vocals. If super-tight isn’t sounding right, then just loosen the setting in VocAlign Ultra and more of the original double or harmony performance will be retained for a more natural result.

Match Pitch Section

Before Ultra, VocAlign only aligned the timing of your performances but now you can tighten up the pitch too. Don’t waste time tuning your doubles or backing vocals separately, once you're happy with the tuning of your lead, VocAlign Ultra instantly applies your guide’s pitch to any other vocals that need to match.

60+ Alignment Presets

Not sure which alignment settings to use? That’s no problem, VocAlign Ultra includes a variety of carefully designed and well labeled presets covering all the most common alignment scenarios, just make your choice and start aligning. You can also tweak and create your own presets which can be saved to use again in the future.

Enhanced Waveform & Pitch Displays

To enable fast and easy visual inspection of alignment results, we've added two brand new displays in VocAlign Ultra. The first is a waveform display that shows your audio just how it would appear in your DAW. Secondly, we have a new view showing the pitch traces of your signals so you can easily see how they differ before and after processing.

Fully Resizable GUI

We understand your screen real estate is valuable so once you have decided on your settings, VocAlign Ultra can be reduced to down to a compact size just showing the key controls for operation. With a completely resizable GUI, VocAlign Ultra can be as big or as small as you need to be, depending on which controls you need to see.

Basic and Advanced Editing Panels

In VocAlign Ultra you can toggle between basic and advanced editing modes depending on how deep you want to go when tweaking parameters. If you need to make quick and simple changes select basic but for more detailed adjustments just switch to advanced and more controls will be displayed.

Full ARA2 Integration With Compatible DAWs

ARA or Audio Random Access is a revolutionary audio plug-in extension that enables unprecedented instant communication between ARA-enabled plug-ins and DAWs. The huge time-saving benefit for VocAlign users is that real-time audio capture is no longer necessary as audio files can be instantly captured, updated, and returned to your DAW.

Sync Points & Protected Areas

For complex alignment problems, VocAlign Ultra has a few handy advanced editing tools to fix your vocals fast. Sync Points are user-defined target points on your guide and dub tracks which VocALign will try to ensure remain in sync when processing. Protected Areas allow you to select a portion of your double or harmony which you don't want VocAlign to process.

Introductory Pricing

To celebrate the release, VocAlign Ultra will be 30% off until Feb 28th and any VocAlign Pro users who redeemed their license after July 21st, 2020 will be entitled to a free upgrade.

  • Price - $279 / €220 / £199 (Excluding Tax)

  • RRP - $399 / €315 / £285 (excluding tax)

To claim your free 14-day trial and start VocAlign-ing today, head over to Synchro Arts’ website.

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