Module Reference · Pitch & Vocal

Auto Pitch

Auto Pitch corrects vocals to a key and scale - seven scales from chromatic to pentatonic - with a Retune control that spans invisible pitch support to the hard robotic snap. Flex preserves expressive bends, Humanize relaxes held notes, and confidence gating keeps the detector honest on noisy sources.

The finishing tools go deep: generated vibrato with delay and shape, drift removal, flattening of the singer's own vibrato, formant preservation with independent formant shift, and cent-level grid detuning. Switch Target to MIDI and the voice follows the melody you play - correction becomes an instrument.

Auto Pitch module editor in GhostInTheMachine
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Why it hits different

The GhostWare take.

  • One Retune knob from invisible to full robot.
  • Humanize, flex and confidence controls for natural results.
  • MIDI target mode: play the melody, the vocal follows.

In the shot

Reading the panel.

  • 1
    PITCH TRACE

    Detected-vs-corrected pitch path drawn as audio plays.

  • 2
    PIT / CLR METERS

    How hard the corrector works, how sure the detector is.

  • 3
    CORRECTION DECK

    Key, scale, retune speed and the humanize section.

Control Showcase

Every control, explained.

20 controls, named exactly as they appear in the plugin.

Key

The key the correction snaps to.

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Scale

The scale within that key: Chromatic, Major, Minor, Dorian, Mixolydian or Pentatonics.

ChromaticMajorMinorDorianMixolydianMaj PentaMin Penta
Retune 0 to 100 % (default 20 %)

How fast pitch snaps to the target - fast is the hard robotic effect, slow is transparent.

Amount 0 to 100 % (default 100 %)

How much of the correction is applied.

Flex 0 to 100 % (default 0 %)

Lets expressive bends survive correction.

Humanize 0 to 100 % (default 0 %)

Relaxes the correction on held notes so sustains sound natural.

Range

Limits detection to a register: Auto, Low, Mid or High.

AutoLowMidHigh
Confidence 0 to 100 % (default 50 %)

How certain the detector must be before correcting - raise it on noisy sources.

Transition 0 to 100 ms (default 0 ms)

Smooths the glide between corrected notes.

Sustain 0 to 1000 ms (default 0 ms)

Extra humanize applied after a note has been held this long.

Detune -100 to 100 cent (default 0 cent)

Offsets the whole correction grid in cents, for non-standard tuning.

Vibrato 0 to 200 cent (default 0 cent)

Adds generated vibrato after correction.

Vib Rate 0.1 to 12 Hz (default 5.5 Hz)

Speed of that vibrato.

Vib Delay 0 to 1000 ms (default 250 ms)

Delay before vibrato fades in on each note.

Vib Shape

Vibrato waveform: Sine, Triangle or Random.

SineTriangleRandom
Drift 0 to 100 % (default 0 %)

Removes slow pitch drift while leaving vibrato intact.

Flatten 0 to 100 % (default 0 %)

Flattens the singer's own vibrato before yours is added.

Formant

Preserves the vocal formants during correction so tone stays natural.

OffOn
Form Shift -12 to 12 st (default 0 st)

Shifts the formants for character, independent of pitch.

Target

What pitch is corrected to: the Scale, or live MIDI notes - play the melody and the voice follows.

ScaleMIDI