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I have used pitch shifting on my own (male) voice to do background vocals/harmonies with a fairly realistic sounding female voice, but that's background vocals. Sometimes I need a female voice for a lead vocal, and honestly have nobody who will do it for me unless I pay them, and well, I don't really want to pay anyone so I came hear for advice. Of course I would like to avoid pitch shifting as I would have to record a scratch track of the song, sing the song in that key, shift the voice and rerecord the music in the correct key and end up with a less than realistic voice anyway. Or I could pitch shift everything, but I think that would just turn into a complete mess. I saw that autotune has throat modeling, would this do the trick? Or, is this a waste of time and effort with no chance of being successful. As a songwriter, I am just trying to put together a decent pitch demo for a female singerut dont want to break the bank.

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You can change, or more realistically, give the appearance of a vocal sex change with one of DP's plugs. But I wouldn't recommend this for any serious work, unless you are experimenting and you want artifacts on purpose.

HIRE A REAL SINGER (if you want the best results)! Otherwise, the results won't even be anywhere near a decent-sounding "demo". It will probably sound even funny.

And I know of no other plug-in that can do this realistically or convincingly, at least not for professional work...

Good luck... you'll need a chick.

Can't say I didn't expect this answer, I just rather put the money toward equipment. I guess its time to face reality. Damn I sure do wish my wife could sing (she's a wonderful and beautiful lady, but as far as singing goes, you don't wanna go there. Thanks guys!

doc7string wrote:Can't say I didn't expect this answer, I just rather put the money toward equipment. I guess its time to face reality. Damn I sure do wish my wife could sing (she's a wonderful and beautiful lady, but as far as singing goes, you don't wanna go there. Thanks guys!

You could run a formant process on your vox but it wouldn't really have that true airy quality and formant of a female voice. Sounds like whispering you know?

newrigel wrote:

doc7string wrote:Can't say I didn't expect this answer, I just rather put the money toward equipment. I guess its time to face reality. Damn I sure do wish my wife could sing (she's a wonderful and beautiful lady, but as far as singing goes, you don't wanna go there. Thanks guys!

You could run a formant process on your vox but it wouldn't really have that true airy quality and formant of a female voice. Sounds like whispering you know?

Well, he could get whisper-sounding spatial monkeys or airy chipmunks with formant processes

Did somebody mention vice grips yet?

James Steele wrote:Did somebody mention vice grips yet?

Never as good as the real thing, but Antares' THROAT Evo Physical Modeling Vocal Designer on special until Midnight tonite.

Eunuchs have high voices I've heard

I knew there would be some fun had over this . I'm not brave enough to try the vice grips idea, but for those of you that have, did you get good results? ;8^)