Software to make sure you sing on pitch?
Software to make sure you sing on pitch?
#0Software to make sure you sing on pitch?
Posted: 4/23/06 at 5:57pmIs there software out there where you sing into a microphone and it lets you know if you are singing on pitch?
--Aristotle
apdarcey
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/10/04
#2re: Software to make sure you sing on pitch?
Posted: 4/23/06 at 7:01pm
Haha, nope.
I have a friend who is a software developer and I gave him this idea and he wants to know if it exists already.
--Aristotle
whatyouown223
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/4/05
#3re: Software to make sure you sing on pitch?
Posted: 4/23/06 at 7:07pmYeah, there is. I have it, but I forget what it's called.
#4re: Software to make sure you sing on pitch?
Posted: 4/23/06 at 7:26pm
...can you check, por favor? 
--Aristotle
whatyouown223
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/4/05
#5re: Software to make sure you sing on pitch?
Posted: 4/23/06 at 7:31pmI think it's called Singing Coach, by Carry-A-Tune or something.
#6re: Software to make sure you sing on pitch?
Posted: 4/23/06 at 7:37pmThere are electronic tuners... you sing/play a pitch and it shows whether or not it is correct.
#7re: Software to make sure you sing on pitch?
Posted: 4/23/06 at 7:51pmI forget who told me about it.. I *think* it was my chorus teacher last year who was explaining how at concerts they sometimes use a machine that when you sing into it, it corrects your pitch if you're off. I could be wrong though.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#8re: Software to make sure you sing on pitch?
Posted: 4/23/06 at 8:04pmI wonder if something like that could really exist, imagine all the deaf "singers" who could sound great with this.
Allie
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/04
#9re: Software to make sure you sing on pitch?
Posted: 4/23/06 at 8:16pmI think there was a thread about this awhile ago... with a link to a news video, maybe? I can't remember!
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#10re: Software to make sure you sing on pitch?
Posted: 4/24/06 at 9:24amI think it's called SUPPORT:)
dutch46mill2
Featured Actor Joined: 1/18/06
#11re: Software to make sure you sing on pitch?
Posted: 4/24/06 at 10:53am
In the recording studio they use Antaras Auto tune ,industry standard even comes with Pro Tools, thats why the likes of Lindsay Lohan and Hillary Duff sounded like crap live on the AMA awards earlier this year. Made in the studio. There is other software for checking your pitch and to train your ear.Go to Google and type in pitch software. Here's a free one also for instruments. http://tuneit.free.fr/
Updated On: 4/24/06 at 10:53 AM
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#12re: Software to make sure you sing on pitch?
Posted: 4/24/06 at 11:33am
A friend of mine has a game called Karaoke Revolution (for XBox or Playstation, or one of those) where you sing just as if you were doing Karaoke, but the way you win/earn points is by staying on pitch and in the correct key, etc. and it shows you on the screen if/when you go off pitch. I've never played, but my friend is in LOVE with it. I guess it most funny because he's 32!
Ah well...
Josh Freilich
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/06
#13re: Software to make sure you sing on pitch?
Posted: 4/24/06 at 1:16pmThere's a software program that corrects you on your pitch. It's part of GarageBand.
batboy4692
Chorus Member Joined: 4/11/06
#14re: Software to make sure you sing on pitch?
Posted: 4/24/06 at 1:21pm
Of COURSE there is. How do you think so many mediocre pretty girls make it in the pop industry?!
And why do you think people like Ashley Simpson lip sinc on tv. Because they can't REALLY sing. And that's why Britney Spears always sounds like crap when she does her one live ballad on her concerts.
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#15re: Software to make sure you sing on pitch?
Posted: 4/24/06 at 2:29pm
Here's a link to an interesting report at NPR about software that helps singers find perfect pitch. It even has an audio demonstration. I wonder if technology like this will eventually be used real-time on Broadway? (Or is it already in use?)
Software Helps Singers Find Perfect Pitch
toomeytwopiece
Featured Actor Joined: 1/30/06
#16re: Software to make sure you sing on pitch?
Posted: 4/24/06 at 4:14pm
if it were already in use, then the parts that were not correct pitch wise would sound robotic - no vibrato, no emotion...
the software corrects for pitch alone - not for things like breath, vibrato frequency, etc.
you'd know because the voice would suddenly change from human sounding to robotic! :)
#17re: Software to make sure you sing on pitch?
Posted: 4/24/06 at 5:09pmJust buy a tuner that you can carry wherever you go. Any music store should have one.
Jeremy Roberts
Chorus Member Joined: 9/28/05
#18re: Software to make sure you sing on pitch?
Posted: 4/24/06 at 5:52pm
if it were already in use, then the parts that were not correct pitch wise would sound robotic - no vibrato, no emotion...
the software corrects for pitch alone - not for things like breath, vibrato frequency, etc.
you'd know because the voice would suddenly change from human sounding to robotic!
You know little of what you speak...
There are 4 leading pitch correction technologies - and in the past 2 years, the technology has improved by a factor of 10.
http://antarestech.com/products/atr1a.shtml
http://waves.com/content.asp?id=1741
http://www.celemony.com/cms/?id=347
http://www.soundtoys.com/products/PitchDoctor/
Yes, these technologies are in use, every day, by the biggest stars, including bway.
The boxes and software sounds great, and nobody will ever know the difference.
Yes, the software can deal with breaths, pitch, dynamics and it can compensate for all kinds of flaws in a performance, in real time.
We use these technologies on stage and in cast albums and the best of the best use it to lock in or to raise the bar... I can't think of a major release that I've worked on in 10 years where we didn't use some kind of pitch correction. Lately, the trend is to tune everyone and everything... no reason not to. You don't lose anything... and with a great engineer, you'll never know.
And yes, the software compensates for vibrato and nuance and inflection and stuff like that. The "Streisand 10 cents sharp on the front edge of certain consonants" can be preserved (Eder does the same thing). The software can also strip an annoying vibrato away, and replace it with a more natural sound.
Will the tuning software make a bad singer into a good one? No. It won't solve phrasing (but we have tools to help that) and it won't take a poorly acted performance and make it flow, BUT -- for minor intonation issues, there are tools.
I'm not going to name names, but I have recorded more than a few superstars of the stage who very much needed tuning -- so we just did it. We don't make a thing out of it.
Is this fair? Is a Park Ave. cosmetic surgeon fair? Remember, the tools are in use by everyone, everywhere, so the best get better...
Will this help you with karaoke night? Too expensive for the amateur... for now.
In addition to the links I mentioned, there are many other lower cost/free solutions that do not have all the magic, but can help with pitch identification and ear training. Google it.
TheEnchantedHunter
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/27/05
#19re: Software to make sure you sing on pitch?
Posted: 4/24/06 at 7:00pm
How sad. How terrifying.
Winston Smith
Ministry of Truth, Oceania
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