What Was New in Previous Versions

What's New in Version 3.2

Key features

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• Real time preview of note pitch is possible in Warp and APT processes (with optional reference tracks(s) playback)
• Selectable musical scales are available on a pitch grid
• Tempo grids can be displayed and loaded from MIDI files
• Many improvements have been made to operations and speed
• Time-varying parameter settings have been enabled for Doubler

 

Detailed Feature List

Control and Operation Changes

Auto-play selected note while modifying Warped or Output pitch.

• Preview tone is produced from actual waveform, with pitch frequency taken from the pitch trace at the mouse pointer’s time position.
• Option to enable looped playback of any other soloed track(s) for audible reference while making pitch adjustments.
• Volume control added to adjust preview’s level (located with Revoice Pro Master level control in dropdown menu).
• Can turn auto-play OFF in Revoice Pro Preferences.

Insert Warp Points editing mode turned ON using ‘.’ key.

• Individual Warp Points are inserted or removed at mouse cursor time position with SHIFT click.
• Warp Points can be moved and movement with ALT key held down decouples Warp Point from affecting audio.

Smooth Join Tool – new operation

• Now can draw a box around the joins and selected joins are smoothed when the mouse is released, NOT as the mouse is dragged.

Create Playback Range from selection of notes in Warp or APT Output by pressing Y key.

Revoice Session: View/Settings Menu – new layout

• SMPTE and Real Time codes side by side
• BPM (Beats per Minute) added
• Bar & Beats Display added

Add Audio

• Place File (Start) Tracks Menu now offer default start placement (“Auto Spot to”) Timecode or Playhead. If default switch not set, then if added file contains timecode, a pop-up window now offers to Spot to (i.e. place File start at) file timecode, Playhead, or zero timecode.

Can now open a Process Control Panel for Processes or Warps by selecting “Settings” in Right Click or “context” menu.

Doubler Improvements

• Automation added to Doubler.
• Doubler formant slider range increased from 10 to 15

New Factory Presets Added

• Doubler – Lower delay Mono and Stereo Doublers – with lower Average Delays
• APT – “Gaps in Dub with slighly loose time and pitch”

Better for Dubs with silent gaps between blocks of modulations being aligned to Guides with continuous modulations

Added instruction text “RIGHT CLICK HERE TO ADD A PROCESS” to Revoice Pro Session with audio in session but no process.

• This text disappears once any process (APT, Doubler, Warp etc.) is added to Session.

 

Display Controls

Tracks can now scroll up and down in Revoice Pro Window with Mouse up/down scroll.

• Shift no longer required.
• Can disable this in Preferences (Will then scroll selected track pitch trace)
• Shift with Scroll wheel to scroll tracks is removed.
• On Windows, Shift + scroll wheel scrolls the timeline. (Reverting to 3.0 behaviour)
• Can now move Playback cursor to start or end of the audio in Session using Home and End keys
• On OSX laptop use fn + left arrow and fn + right arrow

Select All and Deselect All added to editor menu with short cut keys.

Add Selections - Clicking outside selected audio display range will now select unselected audio

New Bar & Beat Display in Revoice Session window

• BPM and time signature can be set from:
§ The Revoice Pro Session Setting window or
§ By dropping a MIDI file that contains tempo information into a “track”.

Import MIDI file added to file menu.

• Start time of MIDI file set in Setting window.

Scale and Tuning Grids added

• Scales Selector dropdown menu added to transport area.
• Menu provides selection of a Tuning Reference, Tuning Grid and allowable scales.
• When manually tuning pitch, ALT key enables snap to only notes in selected scale.

Channel Display Controls for Multitrack audio in Tracks Menu

• Global Switch to hide all tracks except channel 1 (“Show Only Channel 1 Audio”).
• Defaults to OFF.

Demultiplexer switch for multichannel audio tracks in Tracks Menu

• Global switch added (“Split Audio Channels”)
• When enabled, each channel of incoming multichannel audio is sent to a mono track.
• If not enabled, all channels are displayed in one track.

Correct Pitch Tool – If hold down ALT key and click “Correction” slider, it selects default value of 100%

Playhead Position (displayed at bottom of Revoice Pro screen) can be edited and moved using numeric key entry and arrows.

 

Updates, Reports and Operating System Information

Check For Updates option added to Help menu.

Live Tracking enabled to send reports to Synchro Arts indicating what features are being used.

OS X installer now installs plug-ins if they are not up to date. (Removed plug-in installer from .dmg image.)

Mixer Window removed from OS X version.

OS X Export audio “.wav” added to exported file names

 

DAW-Specific Changes

Studio One 3: Improved Copy and Paste from Studio One 3 to Revoice Pro. Select in View / Settings window.

Pro Tools – Revoice Pro (Quick) APT: Added Switch to turn off automatic switching of Guide to Dub selection.

 

Main Bug Fixes in 3.2

Pro Tool Revoice Monitor - fixed audio drop out at 96k.

29.97 drop frame - drop frames now at the start of the next minute and not at the end of the current minute.

Windows - Improved sluggish abort of background process.

Fixed various problems causing crashes or erratic behaviour.

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What's New in Version 3.1

• Groups enable track-based operations such as solo and mute to affect multiple tracks concurrently.
• Background processing enables Revoice to render your signals automatically behind the scenes, so they are more quickly available for auditioning. Alternatively rendering can be done manually, either in single- or multi-thread mode.
• Versions enable alternative settings of processes to be stored and rapidly compared.
• New pitch (and level) editing tools are provided for detailed modification of pitch, level and time parameters.
  • Cut, Join, Smooth, Pencil, Correct Pitch
• Playback can be made either to follow your DAW or not.
• The Session file format has been changed. RP3.1 can read older session files, but older versions will not be able to read 3.1 files.
• Pitch limits and range overview in scroll bar.
• The APT process now offers a 'Normal Flexibility + Pitch' option which uses Guide and Dub pitch changes to help alignment. This is useful for material that has a limited dynamic range, where energy alone does not provide an adequate guide.
• A new Analyser process displays a short-term spectrum analysis and a spectrogram of the signal.
• Display improvements and user interface enhancements.

 

What's New in Version 3.0

In Revoice Pro 3, the biggest new feature is that manual editing of Time and Pitch using two new "Warping" functions has been introduced (details here).

The new Make Warp Region function (shown right) allows "in place" adjustment of time and pitch features to a single audio region in the same track as the input audio region. This is meant for making large and small corrections or creative changes to the timing and pitch of voice and monophonic instruments to create perfected lead, harmony, ADR or voice over parts.

In addition, a new "Warp" Process (shown in menu at right) can take its input audio from any length of audio (from part of a region or even from multiple regions) and allow the same type of creative adjustments and corrections to be applied to to the input audio. But in this case, the Warp Process results are sent to an Output track - i.e. not in the same track as the input audio (in the same way as the APT and Doubler processes work).

The Warped tracks' audio can be used independently and sent back to the DAW. But what's more powerful and unusual is they can also provide "perfected" Guide tracks for APT functions (to tighten any existing "loose" double tracks automatically), and/or as the inputs to Doubler functions.

These Time and Pitch Warping functions are improved versions of those previously only available as an output of the APT function which still (as in previous versions) can have the APT Output signal's pitch, timing and level manually adjusted after being automatically generated.

Also new to Revoice Pro 3's APT function, is that the output region now has these new additional Time and Pitch warping features available in the new Warp functions. This will be discussed further below and in the chapter on APT processing.

These new pitch and time Warp controls are more powerful, easier to use and the improved Revoice Pro editing algorithms provide unbeatable high-quality results.

"One stop solution" for Time and Pitch processing

Most significantly, these new manual Time and Pitch editing tools give you the option to not have to prepare audio in other external time and pitch editing programs and, instead, do these adjustments comfortably and quickly within Revoice Pro. The multi-track features of Revoice Pro also mean that you can play other tracks along with the track you are adjusting while in a loop to audition your changes in context.

This becomes even more powerful because by keeping these linked adjustments within Revoice Pro 3, any additional time and/or pitch changes to the main input Guide tracks will be passed automatically into the outputs of all processes using these inputs. So dependant audio tracks will be updated instantly and the results sent back to the DAW for mixing. Moreover, the Revoice Pro sessions containing the audio and processes can be saved for further future adjustments if needed.

No other audio software tools can achieve this level of integration of multiple linked processes across multiple tracks.

Typical Applications

Some of the main uses for manually editing signal features (pitch, timing and level) are quite common and include:

1. Improving or altering the pitch and/or timing of tracks that will be used as Guide tracks in APT processes.
2. Correcting or altering the pitch of a harmony track before using it as a Dub input to an APT process that will have only its timing aligned to the Guide. The output of this APT process can then become a harmony Guide track for correcting double tracks of this harmony part.
3. Manually adjusting the pitch and time of a solo vocal or any voice recording that is not being used with any other vocal track.
4. Lastly, if required, making minor adjustments to the features in the output of an APT process.

 

Summary of New Features in Revoice Pro 3

• Manual Pitch and Time Warping of audio – intuitive, easy to select and manipulate time and pitch and maintain the highest quality.
  • Pitch correction functions – select modes over any range, with automatic snap to pitch grid options.
    
• Time-variable Pitch transfer parameters– graphically vary pitch tightness, offset and transfer strength to control the APT function’s processing.
  
  
• Unique power to create and change stacked tight vocals-  change a Guide signal’s timing or pitch, and all related output tracks follow the changes automatically.
  
  
• Interface improvements - Simpler, cleaner, faster and easier to understand and use.
  
  
• Stunning audio quality– processing can produce totally transparent time and pitch adjustments.
  
  
• AU Monitor plug-in - plays Revoice Pro’s output through AU stereo insert and tracks DAW’s playback in same way as Revoice Pro’s RTAS and VST3 monitor plug-ins.
  
  
• Enhanced Doubler– can modify timing of output and has longer and negative time delay up +/- 200 ms.
  
  
• Add Audio Files using Mac or Win directory accessed by RIGHT CLICKing in track.

• Revoice Pro 3 can open Revoice Pro 2 files.
  
  
• Operations documented with more DAWs:
  • Transfer audio to Logic Pro faster.
  • Studio One, Ableton Live (Mac) are confirmed (see www.SynchroArts.com)
• Hundreds of improvements and fixes - simplify and speed up learning and using.

 

Detailed New Features

• Preset processing parameters can be selected in New Process window before creating process.
• Move audio from Cubase and Nuendo using Copy & Paste or Drag & Drop
• In place Warp Region function - allows changes to signal in its track.
• Warp points can be added to Input signals and APT and Doubler Output signals
• Warp Note Detector identifies transition groups which are draw in another colour. When you modify a note the connected transition zones are modified to keep the start and ends connected to the note being moved.
• Pitch/Time editing - Can select multiple notes with mouse "lasso" and adjust as one group
• Drag pitch blocks up/down with alt key pressed - blocks move in semitone jumps
• Automatic Pitch correction to absolute grid (in Menu)
• Auto Spot - Menu option - option is now global to the application rather than stored in each document.
• Improvement to pitch and time editing interface
• Improved note separator
• Doubler has negative time options +/- 200 ms
• APT- Pitch Tolerance, Transfer Strength and Offset parameters are now time variable.
• New "High Res Mode" (High Resolution) in APT, Warp and Doubler - improves quality and fixes issues in pure high frequency signals.
• Rewire has been removed. There are Revoice Pro output plug-ins for AudioSuite, AAX, VST 3 and Audio Unit hosts for Monitoring Revoice Pro output and tracking playback in host.
• Can adjust Level slider controls by clicking control icon and rotating mouse wheel without selecting slider. For pan hold SHIFT down. Press Alt and Click to "reset".
• New "Add Audio File" in RIGHT CLICK in Track menu
• Multiple audio regions can be selected
  • LEFT CLICK a first region and SHIFT LEFT CLICK a last region to select all regions from first to last.
  • Cmd (Mac) / Ctrl (Win) RIGHT CLICK to select multiple individual regions
  • Can Delete multiple regions
  • Create New Process can use selected regions in each input track to set process input ranges
  • Export by drag and drop using selected regions in track.
• Dozens of other improvements and bug fixes
  
  

What's New in Version 2.5 and 2.6

Major New Features

• For users of Nuendo and Cubase (Versions 5 and up), audio can be transferred to Revoice Pro using NEW Copy and Paste or Drag and Drop operations.
  
  
• VST3 Revoice Pro Audio Monitor Plug-in has been added.

• For Pro Tools users: New "VocALign-like" Audio Suite plug-ins
  • Two new Audio Suite plug-ins have been included which make the stand-alone Revoice Pro application work in the same way as the VocALign Audio Suite plug-ins. These "Quick" APT and Doubler plug-ins (Audio Suite/AAX) are great options that, in just a few keystrokes, deliver the power of Revoice Pro's time and pitch tightening or doubling with unbeatable speed and simplicity.
• Faster Time and Pitch Processing for groups of Tracks
  • In one operation, you can now create multiple APTs for a group of input tracks that have the same Guide track. This is designed to speed up the automatic time and pitch tightening of "stacked" vocals or instruments. For example, 3 or 4 input double tracks of a lead or harmony vocals can be tightened at the same time.
• Stereo Doubler
  • A single Doubler interface now allows the selection of mono or stereo outputs from mono or stereo inputs, simplifying operation.
• APT Pitch Limits
  • The limits of the pitch editor can now be graphically adjusted to suit any extreme ranges in the source pitch. This means that vocal signals with very low or rough pitch, or even bass guitars and flutes can be used successfully as inputs to Revoice Pro. It also means the operator can quickly make adjustments and prevent octave errors in pitch measurements with difficult signals.
• Pitch and Time Editing
  • There have been a number of improvements to the quality and speed of Revoice Pro's signal processing, with users agreeing that Revoice Pro provides possibly the best-sounding time and pitch manipulations for voices and some instruments.
  • A "Make Group from Play Range" item has been added to the pitch edit menu so users can create single pitch blocks where wanted.
  • Editing pitch and time is now faster as the program will only update the area of signal effected by by the edit.
• Mac OS X users - Time Machine support
  • For users with Mac OS X 10.7 and higher, Revoice Pro sessions are saved automatically in the background using Time Machine, allowing you to browse through and optionally restore earlier versions of a Revoice Pro session.
• Many bug fixes and other improvements
  • Addresses issues reported by users and improves operation and audio quality.

What's New in Version 2.2

 

Major New Features

• Revoice Pro for Windows (first release)
  • Revoice Pro for Windows works with Vista (with Service Pack 2), Windows 7 and 8.
  • It will not work with earlier versions of Windows.
• Faster and Simpler Process Creation
  • Just one click can create a new APT or Doubler process from the selected audio
  • Intelligent automatic setting of Audio Selection source and Output tracks.
  • Quick key B brings up New Process Controls. N key creates process.
  • Efficient use of Playback Range (improved)
• Audio Monitoring plug-in
  • Lets you monitor Revoice through your DAW hardware
  • Revoice Pro can now steam its stereo output mix to an insert plug-in in your DAW
  • Revoice Pro slaves to your DAW playback
• Improved Support for Larger Revoice Pro Sessions
  • Faster display updates with larger audio files (using background loading of audio waveforms)
  • Display only tracks related to selected process (see Quick Keys Z and X below)
  • Option to turn off energy and pitch displays of all but the selected process (C key)
  • Session files written in new, compact faster-loading format
• Quick keys focus display on selected Process
  • Z key displays only the tracks related to selected process. X key displays all tracks.
  • Doubler now uses same Solo enable keys as APT function: G (input), A (Output) and E (Input and Output) .
• Faster workflow changes
  • Faster Playback Range creation (click and drag)
  • Files with timecode dragged into Revoice Pro don't require individual spot confirmations

 

WARNING FOR PRO TOOLS 10 and 10.1 USERS

If you are capturing audio with the Revoice Pro Link Audio Suite Plug-in, do NOT use BAR BEATS setting in Pro Tools 10 and 10.1. There is a Pro Tools bug that will place the captured audio at the wrong time code in Revoice Pro. Avid fixed this in Pro Tools 10.2.