Synchro Arts are the people behind Revoice Pro and VocALign. The quality of the results along with the amount of time I saved make this a no-brainer for me – this is definitely going to the top of my shopping list the next time I stray into the world of dialogues. Tighten, tune, sync or double vocals in Pro Tools, Logic Pro X, Studio One, Cubase, FL Studio and Ableton Live.
With Vocalign processing the ADR on a ‘time’ basis and on a ‘low flexibility’ setting (as above), I found that the audio very rarely seemed to suffer from any degradation and yet it tightened up the sync enough for me to be able to fine tune without any further timestretching. I find that this can be quite painstaking to get spot on so I was very pleased that Vocalign consistently took care of this part of the process for me. Normally, if the sync of a particular ADR line consisting of, say, six words is a bit loose then it is quite possible that I would have to take the whole line (in order to minimize audible artifacts) and timestretch it three or four different ways before cutting together the appropriate words from each different version into one track.
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To be fair, it does seem as though version 4 has brought about quite a significant jump in quality but it always surprises me how stubbornly some sound editors stick to doing many non-creative and, frankly, dull tasks manually that could just as easily be done by software (recutting is another such task).ĭon’t get me wrong unless I’m not using it right, Vocalign isn’t perfect and some manual tweaking is still necessary to get the best sync possible, but it saved me loads of time by enabling me to automate the most fiddly part of ADR editing, which is the timestretching. I’m sure this is no great revelation to many dialogue editors who’ve probably been using it for years but until I read the Sound on Sound review, I hadn’t heard one editor have a good word to say about it and so I’d dismissed it as an inferior quality timestretcher. Well, such a project arrived at my door at the end of last year and so I downloaded the demo and gave it a whirl, and I’ve got to say that I really liked it.
A few months ago I came across a very favourable review of the latest version (4) of Vocalign Pro in Sound on Sound magazine and had consequently decided to try out the demo on the next ADR editing that came my way.