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Software for Singing Becomes Secret Weapon

September 16, 2011 - 10:32 am No Comments

Singing software has been around for decades, but within the last few years has become the secret weapon of up and coming vocalists, especially in competitive situations. The term singing software has wide meaning and could be software used in a recording studio during recording or in mixing, or post production. Singing software can also be used in live performances. However, the singing software making the biggest impact on performance is a training solution that empowers singers to actually improve their pitch and sing on pitch correctly without the need for software manipulation after the fact.


Special software for singing programs literally train the singer to sing on pitch by providing visual neural bio feedback. By seeing their pitch in real time, singers automatically make the fine tune adjustments to get their pitch to the correct position. Surprisingly, the training continues to have powerful impact when the software visual feedback is removed. That is, after using software for singing during training, the singer continues to sing on pitch during live performances. The exact process for this improvement is now fully understood, but experiments show that the results are consistent. In rare cases the singing software does not improve vocal pitch. But, in a vast majority of situations software for singing provides dramatic improvement and has become a secrete weapon for competitive singers.

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Singing Pitch Software For Amateurs and Professional Vocalists

April 25, 2011 - 3:37 pm No Comments

For centuries there was no support to help singers with singing on pitch. In the early 1970s high end recording studios began working with pitch correction hardware that could help improve a recording artists pitch. Within ten years, software programs accomplished a similar task as the recording process gradually moved from hardware to software based computers. Until the mid 1990s, only professional recording artists had access to this technology, but as computers became smaller, faster, and less expensive, recording studios became affordable to a wider audience. By approximately 2005, the equipment for a modest recording studio could be purchased for ten thousand dollars and the number of recording studios expanded exponentially. Correcting pitch software became available for a few hundred dollars meaning professional vocalists could have pitch software in their home studios, however this was still outside the range of amateur singers. In 2009 the pitch perfecter program came on the market with an initial street price of only $17. While the current program is much more comprehensive and costs $67, this price is within reach of most amateur singers.

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