Can't Get a Good Answer for This Anywhere

I have been searching high and low for a Vocal Harmonizer / Pitch Corrector for Reaper. ReaTune for pitch sucks, because it has no "Back" button. So if you make a mistake, you have to start over, even if you've been working on it for 45 minutes. Infuriating, actually. Sweetwater told me about a couple that may work, although they are not indicated for Reaper: The first one was some Swedish or German word that I cannot remember Frailklein or something like that. Their IT guy couldn't get it to work with Reaper at all. Then they suggested IZOtope. I couldn't get it to work. Then they suggested Melodyne. I found it in my VST effects, but it would not register the selected audio item. Now to the point: I am getting so freakin' frustrated about this whole thing, because there isn't even any information on getting this done on Google. On YouTube, there is some guy talking in Russian, which I cannot understand at all. Then there is a guy talking about creating a bridge. Sheesh, I can't even get it working let alone, creating a bridge. Is there ANYTHING out there that is built for Reaper that I can use? Something with a valid manual and an actual tutorial. I am willing to spend the money, but it has to work. Please help me.

Commercial version of both Melodyne and Antares Autotune working fine here. I have been using the Antares products for years with zero problems in Reaper

Maybe try the VST that's available with the CM mag I think one issue back? Sorry, I forget the name.

Take a look here... . I believe this was the name SerenityNow was looking for, there was a free (slightly cutdown) version of Vielklang 2 in Computer Music magazine. Enjoy. :cool:

Narrowroadmusic I guess you might find my reply a little off putting, having been down the road myself I have these suggestions to give to you with all honesty. Take a day off, a couple of weeks whatever it takes. Read the manual of Melodyne. Ask why this program works for others and not yourself... Ask yourself what makes your situation so special that you can blame the program and other programs for the situation you find yourself in. It is true that sometimes it is the computer sometimes it is the program but given modern times 99.9% of the time it will be operator error. Most of the time we are to blame. I operate Melodyne I just use it stand alone works good for me I have had it many years, started a little like you. Grinder

"Frailklein" -- pretty sure this is actually Vielklang, which is very good. Suggest you check it out. It's by the guys who do Elastique, the pitch/time algo Cockos licenses for Reaper. You don't strike me as the type who likes fiddly free open-source applications for this sort of thing, but maybe check out Sonic Visualizer also. It can do amazing things (if you're willing to work with it). Another freebie, much simpler, is Akaizer, which you could use to input a given sample and produce however many pitch-shifted variations on it. Note this is stand-alone, no in-DAW application (though there is a built-in version for Renoise), so not the prettiest solution but it'll work. The "standard" is Melodyne, I suppose, and it is truly amazing with its ability to correctly analyze polyphonic material, but Sonic Visualizer can actually do much of what Melodyne does, just in a more "academic", somewhat opaque way.

Well, thank you all for your input. As far as Vielklang goes, I couldn't get it to work with Reaper, and neither could the technicians at Sweetwater Music. As far as Melodyne and Izotope, with respect to those two, I must be a complete idiot, defining, possibly, what Grinder was alluding to, but I simply cannot MAKE these things work for me, and there are virtually NO encompassing tutorial videos anywhere for either one, where Reaper is concerned. Sure, there are manuals that were written for people who are electronics engineers and "manual" writers. That does the layman no good. On Melodyne's website, they have tutorial videos for just about every major DAW out there, except Reaper. Why is that? My fear is that I will fork out hundreds of dollars for a program that I will not be able to figure out how to operate. Sad, really. Look, I'm a smart guy. I have Bachelor's Degree in Business Management. But that has absolutely nothing to do with music and music production. I have been a guitarist, mandolinist, vocalist since 1977. See, I am a musician who is, just now, getting into the whole "other side of the studio window" after all these years. The advent of the computer has made that possible. I guess at this point, I will try some of the other ones mentioned above and see if I can figure any of them out. Thank you, all! One more note: I figured out how to delete mistakes in ReaTune, but the thing about that program is that it doesn't track every note, especially if the singer carries a lot of vibrato in their voice. UPDATE: I got the Melodyne 30-day trial. I have the program in my FX. By doing a search, I have found these four items: 1. Rewire: Melodyne singletrack 2. Rewire: Melodyne singletrack/32 3. VST: Melodyne (x86) (Celemony Software GmbH) 4. VST3: Melodyne (Celomony Software GmbH) What does any of this mean? Which one am I supposed to select? Is the 32 even supposed to be there since my OS is Windows 8.1 64-bit. Also, unrelated to this, how come the majority of my plugins are in the Program Files > Reaper (X64) > Plugins folder or the Reaper (X64) > Plugins > FX folder and not the C: > VSTPlugins folder?

Rule 1. There are NO "technicians " working in music stores. Do not trust them. :D

BUMP Can someone please address what I posted earlier. I will c & p it here: UPDATE: I got the Melodyne 30-day trial. I have the program in my FX. By doing a search, I have found these four items: 1. Rewire: Melodyne singletrack 2. Rewire: Melodyne singletrack/32 3. VST: Melodyne (x86) (Celemony Software GmbH) 4. VST3: Melodyne (Celomony Software GmbH) What does any of this mean? Which one am I supposed to select? Is the 32 even supposed to be there since my OS is Windows 8.1 64-bit. Also, unrelated to this, how come the majority of my plugins are in the Program Files > Reaper (X64) > Plugins folder or the Reaper (X64) > Plugins > FX folder and not the C: > VSTPlugins folder? Thank you

nrm - please don`t take this the wrong way, but there are a couple of comments/questions in your posts that make me think you are not 100% confident with how computerised recording works and in particular how to do what are really basic tasks in Reaper. And unfortunately I think what you need to get under your belt is too broad to cover in a response to your post here. Read the section in the manual on VSTs. Read the section on setting up your Audio device and its settings, especially regarding ASIO drivers for audio/MIDI. If this is coming over as Japanese to you, check out the first of Kenny Gaioia`s excellent Reaper vids on groove3.com. That lot will give you at least a basic understanding of how to set reaper up to suit your specific setup AND tell you what to do with the Melodyne plug, as well as any others you may get. Stick with it! None of this is rocket surgery and all of it is something you will have to learn eventually regardless of what DAW software you wind up using. Its not just Reaper. :D Good luck and when in doubt ask questions.