Syncing Vocals with VocAlign Pro

[@CreativeSauce]

Little heads-up in response to some comments: Synchro Arts customers do get 30-50% off upgrades/cross-grades - check out the following link on how to make sure you see that pricing: synchroarts.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/23294434628119-How-do-I-receive-upgrade-or-crossgrade-pricing Hope this helps!

[@bigstewdio]

I'm afraid to say it's insulting and Synchro Arts are quite rightly getting a huge amount of negative press. Trying to charge existing 5 Ultra customers 50% of the full price for a few very minor updates is creating a a big backlash. £120 (in my case) for process groups, smarttune, a different coloured GUI and an undo button. It would be funny if it wasn't true. Given what Ultra 5 customers have already paid then these minor changes should be a free point update. Trying to charge *any* amount is fairly contemptuous given that 5 Ultra customers already own 98% of what's in 6 Pro. Especially if you're a Studio One user that already has ARA. Not having a go at you as I fully recognise you don't represent Synchro Arts but I follow your channel and though I should point it out.

[@patjackmanesq]

Vocalign is a long time member of my to buy list. It's excellent doing film dialogue replacement too! Nice vid, Mike

[@CreativeSauce]

Cheers Pat.

[@ShiningHourPop]

Interesting. It looks a lot easier than alignment in Melodyne. By the way, great song very well produced! I’ve saved it to a Spotify playlist! 😊

[@HowlinAndyDE]

That's super useful! I'm considering buying it right now. Btw what's the DAW you are using here? Looks like nothing i've used so far.

[@TheOptionmentor]

Mike is using Presonus Studio One

[@rager1969]

We had really good music back in the day even with the vocals not being in perfect sync. Same with pitch.

[@geronomina6395]

Yes, but that was when _a group of singers_ sang together! Whole other story!

[@Mikkelethor]

Could this also be used to “quantize” older songs to the beat? Or do you need a host and a follower?

[@julesalexander2583]

This looks very interesting however doesn't Melodyne have very similar tools?

[@CreativeSauce]

Hey Jules, nice to see you again. Melodyne has timing correction, but not as automated as this (or not that I'm aware of). Thanks for watching and your support!

[@julesalexander2583]

@@CreativeSauce yes. I see that. As much as I like Melodyne its alignment is pretty basic compared to VocALign. PS I've been watching your channel in the background. I do a bit of vocal arranging and my ears perked up with your review.

[@charleshuguley9323]

In the example I think the uncorrected version actually sounds better. The corrected version sounds too perfect and unrealistic. Of course, in other situations this could be a great tool.

[@CreativeSauce]

I agree with your sentiment Charles. I guess I wanted to make the example easy to hear for the viewer. But it's definitely an artistic decision as to just how tight or loose you want it to be. In 'real life' I would probably have backed off the tightness somewhat.

[@stepett769]

Been looking at this for a while now, but hanging on for new cakewalk version. Supposed to include some Sort of Vocal align plugin. Can anyone confirm this if they have used the beta version. Thanks in advance.

[@TheOptionmentor]

Mike, I'm can't find a place in the checkout window to add the 20% discount coupon. Can you give me any help here?

[@synchro_arts]

Hi there! You'll be able to add CREATIVE20 in the promotion code field directly in your cart. Hope this helps!

[@TheOptionmentor]

@@synchro_arts Don't have a cart just a checkout page and there isn't a promotion code field on the page, just a "Pay" button. Can you give me a link to the promotion code field?

[@jdom30]

@@TheOptionmentor Below the subtotal there is a button that says "Add promotion code", that's where you enter it. Hope that helps!

[@TheOptionmentor]

@@jdom30 - Thanks for the reply but no button there on my page. Maybe it's the browser. What browser are you using?

[@jdom30]

@@TheOptionmentor Chrome

[@bigstewdio]

Mike, I see you're a vocalign 5 ultra user like me. Perhaps this was a sponsored video so you didn't mention it but pretty important to mention that Synchro Arts are offering NO upgrade path for vocal 5 ultra users to the equivalent vocalign 6 pro. In fact, there are only some very questionable additions over vocalign 5 ultra (smart pitch, darker GUI and process groups) all of which are solving problems that didn't exist. So of little value and the kind of thing you'd expect to be included for free given that vocalign 5 ultra wasn't a cheap bit of software. But no, if I (or you!) want to get these nominal features by upgrading to vocalign 6 Pro then we have to pay full whack. I can't even begin to express how poor this is from Synchro Arts and the *only* reason I care is because I'm obviously not going to be ripped off by paying for these so I'll stick with what I have. And that matters because it means my product isn't supported going forward and at some point I'll be left with a useless bit of expensive software. I will not be buying anything more from synchro arts, this kind of contempt for their customers is really shameful.

[@hightyde]

Again I’m going to follow your lead. Like @bigstewdio said. I’m also a vocalign ultra owner. And they offered me no discount or upgrade path to get vocalign 6. That makes no sense. But they’re offering me 33% discounts on repitch (which I don’t own, nor want). Just shitty and ridiculous on their part. I will continue to warn others on all their videos until they fix this. I will NOT be paying full price when their support page clearly states “if you own own vocalign ultra, you can upgrade”. Bullshit!

[@CreativeSauce]

Hi. Sorry you've felt like this. TBH, my lack of looking at upgrade options was just an oversight on my part - not so much to do with the sponsorship. Anyway, in the meantime Synchro Arts have announced this : synchroarts.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/23294434628119-How-do-I-receive-upgrade-or-crossgrade-pricing