The Antares Auto-Tune Realtime Advanced plug-in features a redesigned control panel for a faster, more efficient workflow. Here, you get an emulation of an analog polysynth, and then a number of unique tools specific to this offering.The release of the UAD v9.2 software brings an Auto-Tune real-time plug-in from Antares, an SSL 4000 G Series Bus Compressor plug-in, UA Plate reverb plug-in, Fuchs Train II Amplifier modelling from Brainworx and the Eden WT800 bass amplifier modelling plug-in from Softube.ĭeveloped by Antares and available exclusively for UAD-2 hardware and Apollo interfaces, the Antares Auto-Tune Realtime plug-in offers genuine low-latency Auto-Tune processing made popular when used to excess by the likes of Cher, Daft Punk, and Kanye West, as well as being able to use it as subtle, real-time pitch correction. But here’s what they’re promising.Īny vocoder is a combination of synth and vocal input, by default. I need to test this, so disclaimer – this isn’t a review. The result is a vocoder that looks promising in the studio and onstage. The new Vocoder comes from Softube, those Swedish masters of emulation, who have made themselves a big name both as a provider to UA and as an independent vendor (including with their own native platform, though it doesn’t provide the same real-time possibilities). Lots of vocalists perform with laptops for greater flexibility, and the UA vocoder has real-time MIDI and keyboard control. But I imagine this vocoder may find its way onstage. Interesting, UA are so locked in the studio paradigm that they say you’ll want to “track” through the vocoder – record while monitoring. But a vocoder is an entirely different story, so I suspect that the new vocoder included in this month’s UA update will matter to a lot of people.

This is meaningless, of course, if you’re just applying effects to recordings after the fact. That is, plug-ins are great – until you need real-time performance, since they can add loads of latency.

So one of the selling points of working that way has been that UA offers near-zero latencies, letting you track through those effects. But those effects often don’t come cheap, and they are tied to UA’s own hardware. Universal Audio continues churning out software updates with new analog emulations and other add-ons to buy 2018 has been a huge year for them. Why would you want near-zero latency on an effect? Well, maybe you want to run something like a vocoder – and that means the latest addition to Universal Audio’s offerings is a big deal.

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