My product for 2021 is Synchro Arts Revoice Pro v4.3.
Normally a dot release wouldn’t provide such a key difference over the previous version, but aside from the normal slew of small fixes and changes, at least within Pro Tools, RVP 4.3 is the version that brought the power of Revoice Pro to the lazy masses – of which I am a reluctant member.
I have marveled at Revoice Pro in the past, as our own Eli Krantzberg made it all look so easy, zipping around, doing incredible things with pitch and alignment. All those facilities are of course still in the stand-alone software for when you do need to go in deep, but sometimes, you’ve just got a stack of vocals and you want to tighten up their timing fast – like ‘within a minute or two’ fast.
Prior to Revoice Pro 4.3, I was doing this with Vocalign Ultra, also with great success, and still would be if RVP 4.3 didn’t come along.
Now with enhanced Audiosuite plugins, you can use the power of Revoice Pro without even touching its stand-alone interface. It opens in the background, running things behind the scenes, but you just need to click a few buttons on the Audiosuite plugin, while selecting your sections to align and you can be out of there in seconds. The same approach can provide you with extremely realistic double-tracked vocals in seconds.
The other very cool feature that arrived in 4.3 was SmartAlign, which has also since been included in an update for VocAlign Ultra. This wonderful feature gives Revoice Pro the intelligence to distinguish between a vocal where one voice sings, “1, 2, 3, 4, 5” and the other voice sings, “1, 2, 3, 4.” Now it’s intelligent enough to realise the “5” is unique and not try and align anything with it.
As a Pro Tools user, the only thing I’m missing is the magic of ARA that some other DAW users already enjoy with Revoice Pro. Hopefully the realisation of that dream will not be too much further into the future!