Anybody able to make "AutoTalent" appear?

[Djard]

Since GSnap renders an undesirable phaser-like tone to the human voice, I want to try the alternative of AutoTalent by Tom Baran. I downloaded AutoTalent from Oli Larkin's site and extracted the files into Audacity's Plug-Ins sub-directory, deleting the "_MACOSX" folder and keeping only "autotalent.dll" and the "src" folder. After launching Audacity, importing an audio file, highlighting a section of the file, I did not see AutoTalent in the Effects list.

If anyone has managed to get AutoTalent to work in Audacity (running Win 7), maybe they can share the trick.

[DVDdoug]

The website says:

Will Autotalent work on my computer?
Autotalent is an open-source LADSPA plugin and should in theory work on Linux, Mac or Windows if you compile it for those platforms, although Autotalent v0.2 has only been tested on 64-bit Linux. (Autotalent v0.1 had been tested on 32-bit Linux.)

That means you have to download the source code and compile it for Windows. That's something normally done by a programmer... I've done some programming before, but I don't know how to compile an LADSPA program. You don't have to be a programmer to do it, but installing, configuring and learning to use a particular complier can be a trying experience.

[Gale Andrews]

you have to download the source code and compile it for Windows.

Given Djard has "autotalent.dll" and not compiled it, I think he or she probably has the precompiled VST port. If not, Djard can get it from http://www.olilarkin.co.uk/downloads/ol ... -2_win.zip or http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?pl ... ent&id=842 .

I downloaded AutoTalent from Oli Larkin's site and extracted the files into Audacity's Plug-Ins sub-directory, deleting the "_MACOSX" folder and keeping only "autotalent.dll" and the "src" folder. After launching Audacity, importing an audio file, highlighting a section of the file, I did not see AutoTalent in the Effects list.

Assuming you have the VST version of Autotalent and are using the current Audacity 2.0.5 (see Help > About Audacity... for the version you have) then you will need to do the following. Choose Edit > Preferences, choose "Effects" on the left, check (tick) the box "Rescan VST effects next time Audacity is started", click OK, then restart Audacity. This procedure is explained in the FAQ's: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... st_install .

For Autotalent documentation see http://tombaran.info/autotalent.html and http://tombaran.info/autotalent-0.2_refcard.pdf .


Gale

[Djard]

That did the trick. I did everything correctly but forgot to rescan VST effects in Preferences. AutoTune doesn't seem very accommodating to the musician, but maybe I need to play with it some more. I also noticed there are other pitch correction apps available that might also be open source, like VocPro, Vocalist and KeroVee. Thanks for the kind help.

[Gale Andrews]

I also noticed there are other pitch correction apps available that might also be open source, like VocPro, Vocalist and KeroVee.

As far as I can tell, Vocalist Live and VocPro are hardware.

KeroVee is not open source. It has the usual issues when used in Audacity that the tuned note will be time-shifted, and MIDI tuning will not work.


Gale