Introduction:
Welcome back to our site. Today, we will discuss the Humanoid VST by Baby Audio, a pitch correction and resynthesis plugin that can transform vocals and other instruments. This plugin can benefit producers who are creative in their fields.
This plugin helps the user create different creative effects on vocals. The user can transform his normal vocals into robotic, demonic, futuristic vocals. This plugin is also for good and bad singers. Now, you will think that it is a vocoder-type plugin because vocoders can perform such tasks. But that is totally wrong.
This is not just a traditional tuning plugin like Autotune Pro, Waves Tune Real-Time, or Crispy Tuner.
An advanced pitch correction plugin transforms vocals by applying advanced pitch manipulation, format shifting, and other modulations. This VST, made by Baby Audio, has five segments. We will discuss each segment in detail later in the article.
Overview:
As we mentioned, this plugin interface is divided into five segments. In this blog section, we will describe the working mechanism of the humanoid plugin for these five segments. The names of these five segments are listed below.
- Pitch
- Utility
- Synthesize
- Filter
- Effects
1. Pitch Section :
As the name shows, the pitch section of the plugin works as an engine. The incoming signal first goes into the pitch section, which is the base of the plugin. The main purpose of this part is to tune the incoming signal. Here is a picture of the pitch section.
In this pitch section, you will also see various knobs like the key knobs, quantize knobs, robotize etc. With the help of these parameters, you can also adjust the various controls for the vocals, as you do in the normal pitch correction plugin. You can select the key of your vocals, the retune speed, etc. You can also select the scale of your vocal. A custom scale-choosing facility is also available.
Users can select the custom scale by setting notes on the keyboard pictures in this section.
2. Synthsize Section of Humanoid vst :
The synthesize is one of the most important sections of the humanoid VST. It is not wrong to say that this section is the tool that distinguishes the humanoid VST from other traditional pitch correction plugins. In other words, it is the heart of the plugin. After processing from the pitch section, the input signal goes into the synthesize section for further processing. The main function of this section is to transform the pitched corrected input signal into the different types of synth waveforms. It has all types of waveforms, like sine waves, square waves, etc. This section also adds special types of harmonic effects to make them more interesting and futuristic. This section gives users access to 64 factory wavetables. Each wavetable or waveform has unique timber to be added to the input signal.
Besides this, the user can also upload their custom-designed waveform into the plugin. The synthesize section of humanoid VST also offers features like the “Shape” and “Stretch” controls. These controls allow the user to manipulate the waveforms to change their overall harmonic content and timber.
3. Filter Section :
After being processed from the synthesize section of the humanoid VST, the input signal goes into the filter section. As the name shows, this section combines different types of filters, such as high-cut, low-cut, parametric midband filters, and other advanced filters like the bandpass filter. This section also plays a very important role in this plugin.
This section uses high-cut and low-cut filters to help users remove muddy, low-end, or harsh high frequencies. With this filter section of the Humanoid plugin by Baby Audio, the user can also produce underwater effects and other creative effects. Users can also make a telephone-like voice with the help of the filter section. One term that we think is important to explain is the underwater effect.
What is the underwater effect, and how is it created? The answer is simple. This effect is used in music production and also in film scoring. In this effect, the sound is manipulated so that it seems to come from water. Actually, this effect is created with the help of the EQ plugin. All you have to do is, cut the high frequency of the sound and don’t touch the low end of the sound. Then, to make this effect real, you should add resonance to the low-end end with the help of the EQ. This is how the underwater effect is made. This effect is very easy to create, but some companies have also released separate plugins for this purpose.
4. Effects section of the Humanoid VST :
The effects section has four knobs that widen knob, wearable knob, buffer knob, and freeze knob. We will discuss each of them in this section of our blog.
Widen Knob :
This knob is to decrease or increase the stereo field of the sound. It does so by affecting the phase or time of the left and right channels of the sound. This knob can also add a chorus effect to the sound by slightly affecting the pitch of the right and left channels.
Warble Knob :
This knob adds vibration to the sound. You can have slight vibration in your sound; otherwise, it usually sounds strange. Effects like vibration are useful if someone adds them to instruments. Especially the vibration effect, which is used in hip-hop melodies.
Buffer and Freeze Knob :
The buffer and freeze knob of the baby audio humanoid plugin are connected with each other. These knobs are just for creating glitches in the audio. These glitch effects are used in modern music. It works as an ear candy. T
Let us tell you that the buffer knob is for choosing the length of the input signal. If you choose its smaller value, it will capture only 1 or 2 seconds of audio. After this, the freeze knob does it work. It will replay that audio selected by the capture knob along the normal audio signal. In this way, a glitch effect is created.
5. Utility Section of the Baby audio humanoid VST:
This is the last section of the humanoid plugin. With the help of this section, the user can select the range of the pitch of his input signal to be processed by the pitch section. Some people may complain that this plugin does very robotic pitch correction. So to avoid that complaint, the company added this feature. Moreover, there is also a function of de-ess. With this feature, the user can damp harsh high-end frequencies of the input signal. There is also a gate knob. By this knob, the user can set the threshold level, and then the plugin will completely mute those parts of the audio signal when its level is below the threshold level. So this prevents the background and breathing noises.
Gear Knob :
There is also gear control with some knobs of the humanoid plugin. When you click on that gear knob, then the plugin will show the user advanced controls related to that knob. These advanced controls are for professional users. Otherwise, tweaking basic knobs can also be helpful in achieving good sound.
Applications and use cases :
Hard Tuning :
There are many traditional pitch correction plugins on the market, but they have limited power. The humanoid VST by Baby Audio goes beyond these traditional pitch correction plugins. It can add hard tuning to the vocals and instruments.
Creative effects and Film dubbing and scoring :
This plugin can also add a robotic or demonic effect to the vocals. All these effects can be a good source of creativity for music producers. They can also be used in films for dubbing, film scoring, and creating soundscapes.
Ear Candy :
There is always a demand for new and modern ear candy plugins in the market. This plugin can work as ear candy as it can add various effects to the sound. So, this plugin can be used to design interesting song intros.
Backing Vocals:
This plugin can also be used to generate backing vocals.
My Honest Review :
I have used this plugin and will share my honest review of it in this section of my blog post. Before I write my review about the baby audio humanoid VST, I want to clarify one thing: I am writing this review only to give you information, not to promote this plugin or its parent company. Here is my review.
I found this plugin pretty good and useful. I am a music producer and sometimes do film scoring. This plugin was very helpful in my workflow. It is really good compared to traditional auto-tune plugins. It has a user-friendly interface and is also not CPU-consuming. This plugin can also be a good new dimension for future bass, EDM, and techno music.
Alternatives of the Baby Audio Humanoid VST:
Here are some alternative plugins to the Baby Audio Humanoid VST:
- iZotope VocalSynth
- GV Vocoder by Variety Of Sound
- Waves OVox Vocal Resynthesizer
- MeldaProduction Vocalizer
- Serato Vocal Flip
System Requirements for Humanoid Plugin:
- Version: 1.0.0
- Developer: BABY Audio
- Format: VST, VST3, AAX, AU, 32/64bit
- Tablet: Present
- System requirements: WIN 10+ macOS 10.11+
- Size: 53.8 MB
