Waves Tune Real Time Text Tutorial by Darion Jaikaran

  As the name implies, Waves Tune Real Time is a vocal pitch correction plugin used to fix off-tune notes in a vocal performance. Best results are have when this plugin is used in realtime when recording vocals or in live performances. 
  This tutorial is written with the VST3 version in mind, the  parameters and their functions are the same in the VST version, but I thought it’ll be best to specify which one I’m using for the maximum transparency and the most followalongableity, (that’s a trademarked word, all unlawful use of the word is strictly prohibited without the expressed written consent of Darion Jaikaran) LOL 🙂

The Million parameters and their functions

  Alright, it’s not one million exactly, but there are a few that are essential to understand to work the plugin to its greatest potential.
	1.	Bypass. This deactivates the plugin, stopping it from making any changes to the track. For instance, if you wanted to hear the difference that the plugin was making, you could turn on the bypass function and it would stop the plugin from affecting the audio in any way.
	2.	The speed parameter. Say you’re sustaining a note, but it goes off gradually, rather than slamming the note in to place all the time, you can specify how quickly the plugin springs in to action once a questionable note has been detected. I personally leave this on 0.0 % 99 percent of the time.
	3.	The correction setting aka the strictness slider. The human voice isn’t only a matter of pitch, volume and timing, if it were so, we would long have singing robots. I mean, we kind of have that, but that’s for another discussion. The thing is, the human voice has emotion and, sometimes, you would prefer a slide pitch variation to preserve the emotion of a vocal performance and this is where this setting comes in to play. I have it on zero, which means… basically, nuke it… However, if you wanted to preserve some pitch variation, you would want to play with this slider.
	4.	The note transition parameter. The note transition parameter is used to tell waves tune how quick to change notes. Notes can be changed gradually or abruptly. This setting is measured in milli seconds. One MS is the fastest and from there it gets slower. If you look at tutorials on pitch correction on YouTube etc and auto tune is used, this setting will be denoted as the retune speed. Retune, note transition, it’s all the same thing, different names by different manufacturers. This is an example of a slow retune speed  Not the most manly of songs, but you get the idea… This is an example of a faster retune speed: here you can here the pitch correction software working, but its not robotic as yet.   This ladies and gentlemen is where we get robotic. The king of auto tuning.  
	5.	Scale type. Scale type is the first of the two controls in which we’re going to tell waves tune how to tune our vocal. Here you can indicate major, minor or other scales.
	6.	The scale root is where you choose if your tuning in a, b, c, or whatever key your beat is in.