Baby Audio Humanoid Vocal Transformer / Hard-Tuner Plugin

Description

PRODUCE VOCALS FROM THE FUTURE

Create stunningly robotic vocals from any singing performance. Humanoid is an over-the-top pitch corrector designed for instant hard-tuning and radical voice manipulation. With a brand new approach to vocal tuning and phase-vocoding, the plugin transforms singers of any style and ability into their best synthetic selves.

VOCAL TUNING ON STEROIDS

If you want natural vocals, you’ve come to the wrong place. Humanoid is designed for extreme hard-tuning and takes the distinctive sound further into the future with a wide range of innovative voice manipulation features.

Push the boundaries of what modern vocals sound like, while captivating your audience with the smooth and crisp sound of Humanoid’s FFT-based re-tuning engine. Singing skills not required!

FEED YOUR VOICE WAVEFORMS

Morph your vocals into synth waveforms to create unique timbres that merge human and machine qualities.

At its most extreme, Humanoid will turn a voice fully into a synthesizer, while moderate settings will add a subtle electronic shine to the vocal mix.Choose from 64 factory wavetables – or import your own – for unbound sonic variation. Then use the shaping features to further sculpt the sound of your robot voice alter-ego.

CREATE HARMONIES FROM ANY VOCAL

As an alternative to instant hard-tuning, Humanoid’s pitch can be controlled manually via automation or MIDI.

This allows you to use any vocal take as a seed for creating new, perfectly pitched, melodies, harmonies and chords.Turn a lead vocal into a symphony by layering it with re-pitched variations of itself or use Humanoid as a futuristic vocoder. The re-tuning engine handles note changes seamlessly, even across large ranges.

OUR DEEPEST PLUGIN YET

Humanoid lets you go as deep as you need to create your unique vocal sound. Click the ‘gear’ icons next to the knobs to unlock advanced calibration options and features.

Tweaking is optional, however, and with 180 presets crafted by leading sound designers, you can produce professional-grade robotic vocals right out of the box.For good singers, Humanoid offers new timbres and variation. For bad singers, it offers a total make-over! Only your creativity sets the limit.

Pitch

Set how Humanoid’s hard-tuning engine corrects incoming audio. Use the Scale mode to correct notes in realtime to a selected musical key or use Note mode to correct the pitch manually on the keyboard display or via automation. Finally, you can use MIDI mode to set the pitch via a MIDI track or controller. Engage the preset lock to browse presets without changing pitch settings.

Synthesizer

Humanoid’s second vocal transformer is a wavetable synth engine that follows the pitch of the incoming signal and re-synthesizes it with selectable waveshapes. Use it to morph a fat synth layer into the vocal sound and take the synthetic feel even further.

Transform Knob

Morph between robotified hard-tuning and re-synthesized vocals to seamlessly blend between human and machine. Use the shape and stretch parameters to manipulate the wavetable and the note shift and octave parameters to fatten and shift the pitch.

Filter

Humanoid’s onboard filter section gives you quick access to familiar tone shaping tools like high and low-pass filters and a sweepable mid band that can boost or cut. Humanoid’s filter acts on the spectral content from the analysis phase, making it capable of extremely sharp cuts that a traditional filter couldn’t achieve.

Effects

Humanoid’s effects section gives you creative tools to warp your voice. Widen makes the voice wider, while Warble offers spectral vibrato. Freeze is a unique stutter effect that can be synced to the BPM or programmed freely.

Utility

The Utility section contains helpful tools for improving the results of the vocal processing. Limit the note range to improve pitch detection, add a de-esser to tame sibilance and a gate to reduce bleed and background noise. The smoothing function reduces harsh harmonics for a more soft and relaxed re-tuning style.

Presets

Humanoid comes with 180 presets from top sound designers. From classic hard-tuning effects to transformative vocal manipulation, you’ll find expertly built patches that work across a variety of genres.

Sharpen

Enhance the vocal signal to achieve a clearer and sharper balance that will cut through the mix. Click the calibration icon to control the brightness.

Output

Set Humanoid’s global output. Click the calibration icon to set the input gain and global dry/wet mix. Click+drag the bottom right of the interface to re-size.

Settings

Enter the settings menu to show/hide tooltips, change the interface color, launch the quick-start guide, access resources and more.

Buffer

Humanoid works by analyzing incoming audio in the spectral domain. Select the Low buffer setting to analyze a smaller window of audio for low latency performance, or select Medium or High for better pitch tracking at the expense of higher latency.

Top Features

Advanced Vocal Synthesis & Reshaping: Transforms voices into robotic, synthetic, or otherworldly tones.

Real-Time Pitch & Formant Control: Adjusts pitch, timbre, and vocal characteristics dynamically.

Harmonic Processing & Vocoding: Creates lush harmonies and vocoder-style textures.

Granular & Modulation Effects: Introduces glitchy textures and time-stretched effects.

Seamless DAW Integration: Compatible with VST, AU and AAX plugins for smooth DAW use.

Additional Features

Carve out your own unique and modern vocal sound

New innovative approach to synthetic pitch correction based on spectral analysis

Instant aggressive hard-tuned vocals with a wide range of voice manipulation options

Use automation or MIDI to create new melodies and harmonies from any vocal

Perfect for any genre that embraces electronic elements

Humanoid adapts to your creative needs

Make vocals sound unnatural and robotic.

Increase the Smoothing parameter to soften the tuning behavior.

Increase the Gate and De-Ess parameters to remove noise and sibilancies from your dry track

Set Quantize to a lower value and increase Attack and Hold (moderately) in the Quantize calibration section

Why You Need Baby Audio Humanoid

Baby Audio Humanoid was created to offer musicians, sound designers, and producers a powerful and versatile tool for transforming the human voice into unique and futuristic soundscapes. Its purpose is to enhance vocal-based sound design, allowing users to reshape, manipulate, and synthesize vocals in creative ways that go beyond traditional audio processing methods. This plugin is particularly useful for those working in electronic music, film scoring, and experimental sound design, providing them with an advanced yet user-friendly solution to achieve complex vocal effects without the need for external hardware.

Who This is For

Humanoid’s target market includes electronic music producers looking for futuristic and robotic vocal textures, sound designers and film composers needing sci-fi and fantasy voice effects, experimental musicians seeking innovative vocal manipulation, and producers and engineers involved in commercial music projects. Additionally, it caters to content creators and video game developers who need creative voice effects for immersive soundscapes.

What This Package Competes With

When compared to competing products like iZotope VocalSynth 2, Antares Articulator, and Eventide Octavox, Humanoid excels by offering a combination of features that go beyond basic vocoding and pitch-shifting. While iZotope VocalSynth 2 and Eventide Octavox focus more on harmonization and pitch manipulation, Humanoid offers more advanced granular processing, formant shifting, and modulation capabilities, allowing users to explore deeper creative possibilities with their vocal material. It also boasts a more intuitive interface that makes complex sound design accessible even to beginners.

Baby Audio Humanoid System Requirements

Mac

Cpu: Intel or Apple Silicon M1/M2
Notes: OS 10.11 and up
Additional_requirements: All major DAWs, including Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Studio One, Bitwig, Reaper, Reason etc.
Internet_required: No
Support: 64_bit
Plugins: VST-3, AU, AAX

Windows

Notes: Windows 10 or newer
Additional_requirements: All major DAWs, including Ableton Live, Pro Tools, FL Studio, Cubase, Studio One, Bitwig, Reaper, Reason etc.
Internet_required: No
Support: 64_bit
Plugins: VST-3, AAX

Baby Audio Humanoid Demo Video