Session Loops' PitchNet is free AI vocal tuning that resynthesizes instead of warping. If it sounds natural, who still pays for Melodyne?
ASKED BY · Paul Walhus · AUSTIN, TEXAS · 04 NOV 2026 · ▶ 00:46:13
Pitch correction use depends on goals; avoids pitch shifting unless creating intentional effects; differs from automatic gain control—sometimes necessary for disasters but shouldn't substitute for skill.
Pitch correction can sound clinical and remove natural jazzy feel; many singers intentionally sing off-key in 'the cracks' and value that expressiveness over perfection.
Most common pitch tool scenario is karaoke applications.
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45:52So the usage is vastly different and the way we use these tools are different. So maybe we should kind of try to find a source that is also very good at live performances performances and how to use scopes in a really hectic environment. Live sports is probably the best. I'll tell you one thing. It doesn't matter what you know and how much you read the scope. What really matters is what you do with that information. Let's go
46:23to the next question. Next one comes in from Austin, Texas, and Paul Valhus, who says, Session Loops PitchNet is free AI vocal tuning that resynthesizes instead of warping if it sounds natural who still pays for Melodyne and he has a link there to the Fender site for plug-in we don't know anybody? I'll give my opinion. Bill wants to say something. Well yeah I was
46:55just going to say so pitch perfection which I think is what he's talking about here is generally in the realm of singers and people performing that need pitch correction direction to sound more professional than their performance might be. I'm again, like many things, have two minds about that. I've seen really good singers who have a lot of talent who have been temporarily pitch challenged. And, you know, you put them on a stage and they can still sing.
47:25But we've also seen a lot of people who can't carry a tune in a gigantic 900-gallon bucket bucket who after enough post-production. It would be really heavy. It would sound decent. It would be a heavy bucket. Very, very heavy. Metaphors aside, it depends on what you're doing with it. And I generally stay away from pitch shifting and things like that unless I'm doing some,
47:50you know, weird character in one of the audio books and I need an alien sounding something where all the tools are on the table because there is nothing I'm trying to recreate that It sounds natural at all. So that's just fun. Anyway, that's all. Courtney? Yeah, I think, you know, a lot of times, you know, pitch correction, auto-tune is used for the effect of it being used poorly these days.
48:16In other words, you know, you hear the auto-tune jumping to the next note, et cetera, in a lot of hip-hop artists. But if you're just correcting the pitch for a singer who misses it every now and then, I think that removes, it makes the performance too clinical, and it doesn't have that jazzy feel to it. A lot of singers like to sing a little bit off-key every now and then
48:41and play in the cracks, as they say, sing in the crack. And Ronnie? I'm going to say that the most used pitch tool scenarios we have is karaoke. Damned with faint praise. Let's go to the next question. Next one comes in from New York City. Brody Hefner asks, if you unpacked rental loft mics and you see that they include an unneeded but firmly attached foam windscreens, would you endeavor to remove the windscreens