Audio effects
Pitch Correction
Shifts the signal towards the nearest note of a key and scale.
In this guide
Add it to a track
Select the destination track, open Plugins, and choose Add Effect. Find this device in Library → Effects. Effects process the signal from the devices before them in the chain.
Controls
| Control | What to listen or look for |
|---|---|
| Key | Chooses the root note used by the selected musical scale. |
| Scale | Chooses the set of notes used by the pitch or note-processing rules. |
| Amount | Sets how strongly detected pitch is pulled toward the chosen scale notes. The knob is squared, so 50% corrects only a quarter of the pitch error and 100% corrects fully. |
| Retune | Sets how quickly pitch moves to the target note; faster settings give a more obvious corrected effect. |
| Smooth | Smooths changes in the detected pitch to reduce abrupt correction movement. |
| Shift | Transposes the corrected sound in semitones. Shift and correction together are limited to 12 semitones up or down, so a large shift leaves less room to correct. |
| Formant | Shifts the resonant character of the sound, changing vocal-like tone independently of the main pitch shift. |
| Humanize | Softens correction behavior to retain more natural pitch variation. |
| Mix | Blends the original signal with the processed signal; 100% gives only the processed sound. |
Work with this device
Start with a short passage that represents your material. Change one control at a time. Compare at a similar listening level, using the device's power control to bypass it. Save a version of the project before making a large change.
Dawnamite user guide for macOS. For changes between versions, see update history.