Pitch Corrector listens to a monophonic source — a lead vocal, a sax, a guitar lead — tracks the note being sung or played, and nudges it to the nearest correct note in your chosen key and scale. Dial it gentle for natural-sounding intonation that no one hears, or push Retune to instant for the modern hard-tuned vocal effect. Formants stay put, so a corrected voice still sounds like the same person.
A good corrector does two jobs at once: it fixes intonation so a strong performance isn't undermined by a few flat or sharp notes, and it doubles as a creative effect when pushed harder. The same two knobs — Retune and Strength — take you from one to the other.
Slow retune and partial strength glide each note gently toward pitch. The listener hears a great take, not the tool — the engine and smoothing are tuned so subtle correction never smears, doubles, or warbles.
Push Retune to instant and Strength to full and the pitch snaps to the grid the moment a note changes — the stair-stepped, robotic transitions of the modern trap and pop vocal. Click-free, continuous, and on the beat.
Pitch Corrector is also a real-time diatonic harmony engine: it builds a full in-key choir around the lead, snapping every voice to the active key and scale so a stack is always in tune. Feed it a guitar or keyboard and the harmony follows the chords you play.
Chord tracking needs a separate instrument input, so it runs inside a host (DAW): route a guitar or keyboard to the plugin's sidechain and the voices lock to the chord tones you play, with a live readout of the detected chord. It holds the last chord briefly when you stop, then falls back to the selected or auto-detected key — so the harmony never strays out of tune, with or without an instrument feeding it.
Choose where the choir sits relative to the lead — stacked above it, straddling it, or tucked underneath — so you're never locked to one register.
Reshape the voicing so a different chord tone sits in the bass. Combine it with placement for open, inverted spreads instead of one fixed stack.
Classic 1–3–5 stack around the lead.
Lush four-note jazz / gospel colour.
Simple thirds or a fuller triad above.
Spread thirds straddling the lead.
Shimmer — an in-key octave on top.
Beef — weight the lead from below.
Stacked octaves for size and width.
Detuned, humanized unison copy of the lead.
Each harmony and doubler voice gets its own subtle pitch drift and micro-timing — scaled by the Humanize control — so a stack breathes like real backing singers instead of a robotic clone. A gentle high-cut smooths the shifted voices so they sit behind the lead, and formant preservation keeps every voice sounding like the same singer.
The harmony is a live diatonic harmony engine — it stacks in-key chord tones around the sung note for that lush 7th-chord choir. It doesn't enforce classical SATB voice-leading, which is a score-based compositional idea rather than a real-time effect. With the full harmony-and-doubler stack enabled it's CPU-heavy — ideal for tracking and mixdown.
Naive pitch shifting makes a voice sound chipmunked when raised or muddy when lowered, because it drags the singer's vocal character — the formants — along with the pitch. Pitch Corrector keeps the formants in place, so a corrected voice still sounds like the same person. Or shift them deliberately for gender and character effects, independent of pitch.
Formant preserve · independent formant shiftA robust real-time fundamental-pitch tracker with voiced/unvoiced detection follows the note being sung — and recognizes when there isn't one. Consonants, breaths, and silence pass through untouched instead of being yanked to a pitch, so corrected vocals keep their diction.
Real-time tracking · voiced/unvoiced detectionAuto Key listens to the incoming melody and figures out the song's key and whether it's major or minor, setting Key and Scale for you with a live on-screen readout. No music theory, no guessing — start singing and it follows.
Auto major/minor · live readout · sets key + scaleA real-time pitch display draws the detected input against the corrected output over a note grid, and the scale keyboard highlights the active target notes and the live pitch. You watch the tool work — and click any key to drop it as a target.
Input-vs-corrected display · clickable scale keyboardBuilt on a high-quality phase-vocoder engine with sub-cent resolution and click-free output. Efficient enough to run several instances — the full harmony-and-doubler stack is richer and best saved for tracking and mixdown — with accurate latency reporting so the host stays in time, no allocation or locking on the audio thread, and full host automation of every parameter.
Low CPU · accurate latency · lock-free · full automationStart from a tuned-in point and tweak from there.
Gentle, inaudible intonation repair.
Instant retune, full strength, on the grid.
The lightest touch for a strong take.
Formant shift up or down for transformation.
Tighter correction to lock a stack together.
Sax, guitar, and other monophonic leads.
Target pitch from your MIDI performance.
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Pitch Corrector is an original Dreamlab Digital Media product. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or derived from any hardware or software manufacturer. Specifications are provisional until release.