TRUE NORTH
Tune KM-10
Every note lands where it should, and still sounds like you.
AU · VST3 · macOS
What it does.
TRUE NORTH corrects pitch while you record or mix. Set the key and scale, or let SCAN find them, then choose how fast notes land: slow and invisible, or instant for the hard, stepped sound. It follows one voice at a time, so use it on a lead or a backing part, not on a chord.
Humanize and Flex keep slides and long notes natural, and Natural Vibrato decides how much of the singer’s own vibrato survives. It re-times the waveform instead of stretching it, so the formants stay where they are, and consonants and breaths pass through untouched. Studio mode is for the mix, Live mode trims the latency for tracking.
- Best on
- Lead vocals · Rap hooks · Backing vocals · Tracking
- Line
- Precision
- Category
- Pitch
Hear it.
The same recording without and with TRUE NORTH, set from SCAN and adjusted by ear. Switch while it plays; the position stays where it is.
The before-and-after examples are being recorded. They will appear here.
What's inside.
Key and scale from SCAN
SCAN reads the key from the melody, or from the beat when you send it to the sidechain, and picks Major or Minor. When the key is unclear it stays chromatic, so no wrong notes are forced.
Retune Speed
From 0 ms, the hard stepped effect, to 400 ms, a correction you notice only when it is missing.
Humanize, Flex and Natural Vibrato
Humanize slows the correction on held notes. Flex corrects only when the pitch is already close to a note, so slides stay. Natural Vibrato sets how much of the singer’s vibrato is kept.
Formants stay put
Pitch-synchronous overlap-add moves each period of the waveform to its new place. The voice keeps its character, and unvoiced sounds pass through sample for sample.
14 scales and note overrides
From Chromatic to Blues, plus Scale, On or Off for each of the twelve notes. Transpose by up to an octave either way.
Voice type, Live and Studio
Soprano, Alto / Tenor or Low Male sets the range it searches. Live mode trims the fixed latency by about 12 %. A pitch display shows the note you sang, the note it is heading for and the corrected line.
SCAN for TRUE NORTH.
Play the vocal for about twelve seconds, with the beat on the sidechain if you can. SCAN measures the take and proposes settings for Key, Scale, Retune Speed, Humanize, Flex, Natural Vibrato, Input Type. Each move comes with the reason, in one line.
Apply it with one click, then trust your ears. It is a starting point an engineer would be happy to begin from.
Play the vocal for about twelve seconds, with the beat on the sidechain if you can.
- Key
- A minor, confidence 0.86
- Range
- 130–392 Hz
- Tempo and density
- 96 BPM, 3.1 onsets per second
- Off-pitch
- 22 cents on average
Recommended
- Key A minor, from the melody: notes outside the scale are pulled in
- Retune 10 ms: urban delivery at 96 BPM, fast and tight
- Humanize 10 %, Flex 0 %, Natural Vibrato 40 %
- Input type Alto / Tenor for a 130–392 Hz range, 19.9 ms latency
Example readout. The values depend on your material.
Specifications.
Controls
- Key
- C to B
- Scales
- 14, from Chromatic to Blues
- Note overrides
- Scale · On · Off, per note
- Retune Speed
- 0–400 ms
- Humanize / Flex / Natural Vibrato
- 0–100 %
- Transpose
- −12 to +12 semitones
- Input type
- Soprano · Alto / Tenor · Low Male
- Mode
- Studio · Live
- Mix
- 0–100 %
- Latency
- About 11–31 ms at 48 kHz, fixed per voice type and mode
Formats and system
- AU
- macOS
- VST3
- macOS
- AAX
- Coming soon
- Windows
- Coming soon
- macOS
- 11 Big Sur or later
- Processor
- Apple silicon and Intel
- Sample rates
- 44.1–192 kHz
- Channels
- Mono and stereo
- Interface size
- 75–200 %
- Latency
- Reported to the host
TRUE NORTH
Tune · Pitch Correction. One payment, yours to keep.
List price $129−54%, now $59Launch price
- Free 7-day trial before you buy
- Serial for 1 computer at a time, works offline 45 days
- Free updates for version 1
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