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The Secret To Modern Vocals
Make every vocal shine
This isn’t a bundle of EQs, compressors, or other standard effects.
Instead, Baby Audio have put together three highly specialized plugins to add that extra shine and finish that professional engineers rely on for a modern vocal sound.
Use these tools to elevate and transform your vocal mixes.
Bundle Contents
Smooth Operator Pro
Dynamic Spectral Balancer
The Definitive Clarity Tool
- Smooth Operator Pro removes the bloated frequency energy your tracks don’t need
- Achieve clarity in your mixes by eliminating mud, harsh resonances and masking
- Fix specific problem areas with surgical control – or re-shape the tonal balance entirely
Instant Track Optimizer
Baby Audio have engineered the new Pro version without compromising on the fast workflow that made Smooth Operator 1 so popular.
Set the desired target curve, then turn the global threshold knob until the plugin starts balancing your audio. Dive into deep settings optionally for total control.
Smooth Operator Pro removes fatiguing frequency energy as and where it occurs, improving your audio’s clarity. Dial it in gently and it will feel like lifting a blanket from your speakers.
Resonance Suppression 2.0
Where other spectral balancers offer global settings to affect the signal, Smooth Operator Pro brings unprecedented depth: Override the global settings for any frequency node to set individual dynamic profiles across the spectrum.
Examples (within the same plugin instance):
- Target the left side at 7500 hz to fix a harsh cymbal.
- Address only the sides at 150 hz to clean up the bass.
- Tame a vocal at 2.5 khz with a softer compression profile.
Smooth(er) Operator
Baby Audio have listened and learned. The all-new Pro version incorporates four years of user feedback since V1.
- Enhanced performance and sound quality
- Full control over all dynamic and imaging parameters
- Freely add and remove nodes across the spectrum
- Create individual dynamic processing profiles per node
- Two cutting-edge correction algorithms: Even and Skew
Pro-Level Spectral Workstation
Spectral Processing manipulates the building blocks that make up a digital signal. By splitting a sound into its individual components, the plugin rebalances the harmonic material more effectively than traditional EQ and compression tools.
Smooth Operator Pro brings surgical control over your sound at the ‘DNA level’. Fixing problems is only the beginning: Use the plugin to dramatically re-shape the tonal balance and bring out the best in every track.
Presets by the world’s top engineers
Smooth Operator Pro ships with 184 presets created by some of the world’s most renowned engineers for use in their own sessions.
Preset creators include 30+ Grammy Nominee Craig Bauer, Max Jaeger (Ariana Grande, Drake, Diplo), Preston Reid (Chris Brown, Usher, Muni Long) and Ryan ‘Skinny’ Shanahan (Zedd, Lady Gaga).
Make space in your mix with sidechain mode
Enable Sidechain mode to use the spectral content of another track in your mix to rebalance the current signal.
Example: Use the lead vocal as the input on a guitar track. The guitar will now be dynamically tamed in the areas where the vocal has the most frequency energy. Both signals can breathe without getting in each others’ way.
Learn more about Smooth Operator Pro.
Humanoid
Produce vocals from the future
Create stunningly robotic vocals from any singing performance. Humanoid is an over-the-top pitch corrector designed for instant hard-tuning and radical voice manipulation. With a brand
new approach to vocal tuning and phase-vocoding, the plugin transforms singers of any style and ability into their best synthetic selves.
Vocal Tuning On Steroids
If you want natural vocals, you’ve come to the wrong place. Humanoid is designed for extreme hard-tuning and takes the distinctive sound further into the future with a wide range of innovative voice manipulation features.
Push the boundaries of what modern vocals sound like, while captivating your audience with the smooth and crisp sound of Humanoid’s FFT-based re-tuning engine. Singing skills not required!
Feed Your Voice Waveforms
Morph your vocals into synth waveforms to create unique timbres that merge human and machine qualities. At its most extreme, Humanoid will turn a voice fully into a synthesizer, while moderate settings will add a subtle electronic shine to the vocal mix.
Choose from 64 factory wavetables- or import your own- for unbound sonic variation. Then use the shaping features to further sculpt the sound of your robot voice alter-ego.
Create Harmonies From Any Vocal
As an alternative to instant hard-tuning, Humanoid’s pitch can be controlled manually via automation or MIDI. This allows you to use any vocal take as a seed for creating new, perfectly pitched, melodies, harmonies or chords.
Turn a lead vocal into a symphony by layering it with re-pitched variations of itself or use Humanoid as a futuristic vocoder. The re-tuning engine handles note changes seamlessly, even across large ranges.
Baby Audio's Deepest Plugin Yet
Humanoid lets you go as deep as you need to create your unique vocal sound. Click the ‘gear’ icons next to the knobs to unlock advanced calibration options and features. Tweaking is optional, however, and with 180 presets crafted by leading sound designers, you can produce professional-grade robotic vocals right out of the box.
For good singers, Humanoid offers new timbres and variation. For bad singers, it offers a total make-over! Only your creativity sets the limit.
Features
- Pitch: Set how Humanoid's hard-tuning engine corrects incoming audio. Use the Scale mode to correct notes in realtime to a selected musical key or use Note mode to correct the pitch manually on the keyboard display or via automation. Finally, you can use MIDI mode to set the pitch via a MIDI track or controller. Engage the preset lock to browse presets without changing pitch settings.
- Synthesizer: Humanoid's second vocal transformer is a wavetable synth engine that follows the pitch of the incoming signal and re-synthesizes it with selectable waveshapes. Use it to morph a fat synth layer into the vocal sound and take the synthetic feel even further.
- Transform Knob: Morph between robotified hard-tuning and re-synthesized vocals to seamlessly blend between human and machine. Use the shape and stretch parameters to manipulate the wavetable and
- the note shift and octave parameters to fatten and shift the pitch.
- Filter: Humanoid's onboard filter section gives you quick access to familiar tone shaping tools like high and low-pass filters and a sweepable mid band that can boost or cut. Humanoid's filter acts on the spectral content from the analysis phase, making it capable of extremely sharp cuts that a traditional filter couldn't achieve.
- Effects: Humanoid's effects section gives you creative tools to warp your voice. Widen makes the voice wider, while Warble offers spectral vibrato. Freeze is a unique stutter effect that can be synced to the BPM or programmed freely.
- Utility: The Utility section contains helpful tools for improving the results of the vocal processing. Limit the note range to improve pitch detection, add a de-esser to tame sibilance and a gate to reduce bleed and background noise. The smoothing function reduces harsh harmonics for a more soft and relaxed re-tuning style.
- Presets: Humanoid comes with 180 presets from top sound designers. From classic hard-tuning effects to transformative vocal manipulation, you'll find expertly built patches that work across a variety of genres.
- Sharpen: Enhance the vocal signal to achieve a clearer and sharper balance that will cut through the mix. Click the calibration icon to control the brightness.
- Output: Set Humanoid's global output. Click the calibration icon to set the input gain and global dry/wet mix. Click+drag the bottom right of the interface to re-size.
- Settings: Enter the settings menu to show/hide tooltips, change the interface color, launch the quick-start guide, access resources and more.
- Buffer: Humanoid works by analyzing incoming audio in the spectral domain. Select the Low buffer setting to analyze a smaller window of audio for low latency performance, or select Medium or High for better pitch tracking at the expense of higher latency.
Learn more about Humanoid
Crystalline
Next Generation Algorithmic Reverb
Crystalline is a new, state-of-the-art, reverb plugin with a pristine and modern sound. It gives you unprecedented creative control to shape your reflections. You can sync reverb start and decay times to your song’s tempo.
It follows the tradition of the classic algorithmic reverbs but adds new features and higher fidelity thanks to modern computer power. It is meant to sound unreal – in the most positive sense of the word. Its rooms and halls won’t sound anything like those in your house – but closer to those of your dreams!
Features
- Size: set the room size from tiny to large. This control is detached from the “Length” control, meaning you can get any size/length combination you want, including esoteric settings like huge spaces with very short tails or tiny spaces with very long tails.
- Sparkle: emphasize high frequencies inside the reverb algorithm. This generates reflections that are naturally brighter, which will help you achieve that extra shine on vocals or snares.
- Width: set the stereo image of the reverb from mono to wide – and even further to extra wide.
- Resolution: sets the complexity of the algorithm from ‘basic’ to ‘pristine’. More complex settings will give you an ultra-clean reverb response, free of metallic artefacts – while the ‘Basic’ setting will give you an efficient CPU performance at a normal fidelity.
- Modulation: creates pitch variations inside the reverb algorithm. This results in a richer sound that works especially well to fatten up synths, guitars and vocals.
- Shimmer: makes the high frequencies of the reverb tail decay slower than the rest of the spectrum, giving the reflections an ‘angelic halo’ effect. You can set the frequency cutoff point as well as the multiplier effect, which controls how much longer it takes for the higher frequencies to decay
- Damping: a dual filter control that lets you remove high and low-frequency content from the reverb reflections. This control offers a fast way to get rid of clutter and muddiness in your mixes.
- Sides: a high-pass filter that removes stereo information from the low end of the reverb, while keeping the mono information intact. This is especially helpful for creating wide vocal or lead instrument reflections without muddying up your low end.
- Gate: instantly recreate the classic 1980s gated reverb sound. The gate offers ‘threshold’ and ‘release’ controls and makes it fast and intuitive to make your snares go ‘Phil Collins’.
Learn more about Crystalline.
