You might know Nectar as a harmoniser, but it contains the entire vocal chain, from gate, to pitch correction, to delay and reverb. Real-time vocal processing results in more arranged and produced sounding vocals in a live situation without relying on outside gear or people to get it done. But even these sounds can be useful, either in an overt sound effect kind of way, or buried lower in the mix and filling out the more natural tones.
With any harmoniser, when you wander too far from the original pitch, things can get a little weird and unnatural sounding.
Thanks to our old friend MIDI automation, these can change if/when the chords in the song progress. If in doubt, just look at the chords you’ve used in your song and base the relationships on the intervals in the chord.
How you choose your harmonies is up to you Nectar’s harmon controls allow you to set a root note and scale if you want, otherwise leave it on Chromatic. If your studio tracks have more evolved vocal parts with different phrases and different sounds, you’ll have to think about mixing in some pre-recorded parts, or else just accept that it’s live and won’t be the same as the studio creation. If Push is located in a workable position, it’s possible to sing and engage the audience while tweaking presets at the same time! Living in harmonyĪ harmony effect can only do that – generate harmonies. Nectar’s controls aren’t automatically recognised by Push, but you can use cmd-g to rack Nectar, then assign macros to your most-used controls. In the walk-through I’ve used iZotope’s Nectar 2 as an example of an all-in-one vocal processor, and, truthfully, I don’t think there’s anything else as fully-featured out there.īeyond the harmony solutions, you can use any audio effect that you think is cool, naturally, and there are other handy vocal-related plug-ins around, such as Waves Vocal Rider (one of my favourite plug-ins), Waves Tune, and, of course, the classic Antares AutoTune. I’ve laid it out in Session View, because that’s where you’re more likely to be working for live performances.Īlthough some steps in our walk-through requires Live 10 and Nectar 2, both of these are available as demo versions for macOS and Windows, so we’re trying not to be too exclusive. Our example Live set is called ‘live vocals example’, and contains a vocal track which is basically me going ‘oooh’ and ‘aaah’ (aren’t you lucky?).
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