Of course you also get harmony, reverb, echo and other fx. If you are in key the neither unit is going to make changes so it really is a plus.

Nothing worse than waiting around to sing and fighting the KJ's set up even you are not a great singer. My goal is to make the singers and myself sound as good as it's gonna ever get. I run sennheiser 800 series mics, and monitors for the singers as well. The TC Helicon is very subtle and will also help with tone. Roland vt is diatonic and you must know the key to set which isn't usually all that hard since any decent legal karaoke track will list it at the beginning and most respectable players also note the key. Helicon uses a chromatic pitch correction or you can get more aggressive with a hard tune fx. Old thread I know, but I've done gigs in bars running the tc-helicon vk perform on mic one and the Roland VT-4 on mic 2. Keep your head in the sand, IDGAF, but, you're speaking from a place of ignorance not fact. Live/FOH engineers do it on a daily basis, and have for years. Companies literally sell applications explicitly for this purpose. There is no way as is to process Autotune. They answer is yes, and for cheaper than one would think. It was if one can autotune live karaoke vocals. They keep it as simple as possible and as cheaply as possible.Īgain, okay. Further, did you know one can replace all outboard gear with a simple 4-channel audio interface, and mix everything ITB for less that $200? The question was whether one can autotune karaoke vocals. Then one can have EQ, compression, reverb, delay, and other effects, such as autotune, easily added with minimal RTL.ĩ9% of all karaoke KJs are NOT going to go through the bother to set up an extra device for such a dumb effect. Again, with a simple audio interface you can easily process vocals ITB. I'm sorry you keep exposing your own ignorance.Ī only audio going through the PC for karaoke is the song music, NOT the vocals.

Literally, I can have someone sounding like T-Pain with less latency than you get from standing 3 meters from the PA speakers. I can literally setup Waves Tune Live it Melodyne in my DAW and output it to my karaoke mixer with RTL latency measured at less than 5ms. Live autotune (either pitch correction or aesthetic formant manipulation) had been used in every pop performance for years now. The workflow is nearly identical, and it can easily integrate PC based effects with only a ms or two of latency.įurther, they've had zero latency vsts for years now. Routing into PCs and in the box mixing is the new reality.

They have both standalone applications or ones that can be used in a DAW.Īny professional KJ should be processing vocals separately from the CDG+ signal as it is. Your 35 years are irrelevant to the live music engineering practices happening nowįirst, Live autotune applications work just fine with any audio coming in, irrespective of any karaoke program.

Autotune by UAD