Vocal production is a catch-all phrase we throw around casually these days. But what exactly does it encompass? The answer is, of course, different things to different people. Or should I say to different producers? To some, it involves chopping up words into syllables and re-arranging them. It may include sidechaining a synth sound for a vocoder effect or creating hard quantized stepped pitch transitions between syllables. It might even involve resequencing the lyrics from a sampler. 

But for many of us, the most important things are the fundamentals like getting a vocal in tune and in time or getting double-tracked vocals tight with the lead. Sometimes we need to generate artificial double tracks to blend in with the live vocals. We often need to change a note or two within a phrase to accommodate changes in the harmony or chord structure of the song. There are plenty of software solutions to handle these tasks. But none that address all of them. Except for Revoice Pro 4.  

A typical scenario I often encounter is tracking a vocal and a couple of doubles that sound pretty good overall but contain problems that need tweaking. Maybe the lead has some tuning issues. Okay, that's easy enough to fix. But then what about the doubled takes? Were they tracked while the singer was performing along with the out-of-tune lead? Revoice Pro not only has virtually automatic tuning, but it also has no-brainer smoothing of pitch transitions, applied with a single keystroke. A few more keystrokes and all the doubled takes are corrected to match, with user-definable pitch and timing tolerances - so you get as tight or as loose a feel as suits the song. 

Need more doubled tracks to fill out the vocal arrangement? No problem. Revoice Pro has a variety of presets to generate either mono or stereo doubles, with varying degrees of pitch and timing offsets. 

But here is the thing that Revoice Pro does that I have never seen another piece of software do: Let's say you've done all of your corrections and created the necessary extra vocal doubles. You realize you want to change a chord in the song, only now the melody, and all those beautifully aligned doubles, don't fit. The Process group function within Revoice Pro allows for changes to the lead at any time in the vocal production process, with the changes instantly transferred to all the tracks in the process group. You have to experience this to feel the magic. 

Transferring the vocals between Revoice Pro and the various DAWS is straightforward, although slightly different depending on the plug-in formats. In this video, I put Revoice Pro to work with Pro Tools, tackling all of these typical bread and butter tasks effortlessly.