I EQ'd and compressed the main melody to make it stand out in the mix. The pitch corrector sounds very natural, with almost no bend or audible pitch-shift. Cambridge, MA (October 18, 2013) iZotope Inc., a leading audio technology company, has released Nectar® 2 Production Suite.Designed specifically for voice, Nectar 2 harnesses the power of iZotopes award-winning vocal technologies to quickly and easily treat your voice to sweet results. Then, I recorded the lead vocal, pitched it using the pitch corrector capsule. Nectar 2s harmony module intelligently generates in-key harmonies using the lead vocal as a guide, enabling you to achieve great-sounding harmonies quickly. Then, I added a slight delay and reverb, giving my harmonised vocals a synthetic feel. Comprehensive Tools for Vocal Mixing Upgraded Virtual Assistant over Nectar 3 Pitch, EQ, Compression, Harmony & More Saturation, Gate, De-Essing & Auto-Level.
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Using Nectar 3 as a MIDI instrument and selecting MIDI in the harmony plugin of it, I shifted the formant ever so slightly to make it sound lower and deeper. I recorded vocals on an audio track first, then played the harmonies on a MIDI keyboard. Pitch also informs the register of your voices in the Harmony module, allowing you to more easily stack vocal harmonies. I started out by laying the vocal harmonies. Created entirely with her live vocals combined with iZotope's Nectar 3, Penelope recreates this song with layered polyphonic vocal textures to dramatic effect.īelow, Penelope walks us through her process of making this track, "Measurements." Daughter of the French electro-samba pop pioneer Isabella Antena, Penelope has crafted her own world of harmonic vocal stylings, colors, and textures throughout her catalogue of work, mainly by using iZotope's Nectar and VocalSynth processors to achieve these stunning sonic layers.įor this feature, Penelope composed an acapella version of James Blake's "Measurements," off of his 2011 self-titled album. Blues For Breakfast Nectars, Burlington, VT Set 1 Disc 1: 01-Brown Eyed Women-> 02-Jack Straw-> 03-Greatest Story Ever Told 04-Easy Wind 05-Just.
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To truly demonstrate this powerful and unique musical assistant, we reached out to contemporary Belgian electronic artist Penelope Antena. The headline addition in version 2 is an automatic harmony generation module. A one-stop program for past, present, and future vocal sounds, Nectar 3 features corrective and creative dynamic EQs, compression, harmony and pitch tools, a de-esser, delay, saturation, reverb, gate, dimension, and now comes stocked with the award-winning Celemony Melodyne 4 Essential. Metering is included for the inputs and outputs along with level controls as before, but if you already own iZotopes Insight metering plug-in, this can also be viewed from within Nectar 2. Nectar 3 is an immersive vocal suite that expands with your music productions.