N-RETUNE XT (Patreon)

N-RETUNE XT FOR ABLETON LIVE 11.2 IS HERE

This rack requires a third party VST: reTune

(You can load the rack, insert reTune then save the rack)

N-RETUNE XT is a audio effect rack that focuses on improving on what reTune can do. 

reTune is a per-frequency pitch correction tool with low cpu usage and a fast and easy to use GUI. It does a lot of things right when it comes to spectral pitch correction of any audio signal but has a couple of missing features that N-RETUNE XT rack aims to introduce. 

The first feature is a band frequency splitter. 

N-RETUNE XT lets you limit what frequency area retune can pitch correct. This is incredibly useful to preserve clean and unprocessed high or low frequencies that would otherwise suffer from reTune's added "audio smearing" and sometimes overly aggressive pitch correction. Most spectral audio effects cause smearing which will usually result in smoothed out transients and a lack of punch/clarity. reTune suffers from this to a higher degree as it heavily processes the whole frequency spectrum. This built-in frequency band splitter lets you reduce reTune to frequency areas that need it the most without sacrificing audio quality. 

The second feature is DE-SMEAR. 

DE-SMEAR is a spectral gate that spectrally reduces the resonances with strong decay/release that reTune causes since it smears individual frequencies. This helps to reduce the "vocoder" like resonance that reTune can produce by tightening the most dominant frequencies. This results in an incredibly clean spectral pitch correction without the overly dominant processing artifacts.

FEATURES:

• FX HIGH-CUT: Lets you adjust the maximum upper frequency range that reTune can process. 
• FX LOW-CUT: Lets you adjust the minimum lower frequency range that reTune can process.
• DE-SMEAR: This tightens/gates the retuned frequency area down to its most dominant/present resonances. This helps to reduce the smearing that reTune can introduce. -infdB to -20dB are recommended. Too high of a setting can cause spectral-gate like frequency reduction.