Issue/Suggestion: pitch correction is far too sensitive.
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:39 am
Hey guys, just bought Voice Band and think it's just a few tweaks away from being THE coolest music app on the entire iPhone platform.
My only issue is that the pitch correction is far too fiddly and sensitive for the types of instruments that we're dealing with - it seems to react very easily to minute fluctuations in pitch, giving a lot of warble to the sound. There are certain instruments where this could be a cool performance thing - electric guitar tremolo and more natural phrasing, for example - but for the vast majority of them, it just makes a performance sound crappier than expected. An organ should sustain hard pitches, not warble - to say nothing of the bass.
Autotune-style pitch correction often has a "choosiness" or "sensitivity" control, and I think that Voice Band should definitely have one. Allow the user to determine whether they want the current style of ultra-sensitive, warbling pitch reaction, or whether they want to ultra-hard quantize the pitches so that as long as they're singing within a mile of the note, the output will be hard-quantized to it.
Thoughts?
My only issue is that the pitch correction is far too fiddly and sensitive for the types of instruments that we're dealing with - it seems to react very easily to minute fluctuations in pitch, giving a lot of warble to the sound. There are certain instruments where this could be a cool performance thing - electric guitar tremolo and more natural phrasing, for example - but for the vast majority of them, it just makes a performance sound crappier than expected. An organ should sustain hard pitches, not warble - to say nothing of the bass.
Autotune-style pitch correction often has a "choosiness" or "sensitivity" control, and I think that Voice Band should definitely have one. Allow the user to determine whether they want the current style of ultra-sensitive, warbling pitch reaction, or whether they want to ultra-hard quantize the pitches so that as long as they're singing within a mile of the note, the output will be hard-quantized to it.
Thoughts?