Nectar from iZotope is a set of 11 vocal production effects combined in one plug-in that's designed to give you immediate results. Traditionally, auditioning a few different sounds can require all sorts of tedious routing and parameter setup of individual plug-ins. Built-in "Styles" clear out of the way the process of creating a workflow chain, allowing the artist/engineer to focus on the creative finishing touches.
Vocal production requires a wide range of tools and effects from the cleanup stage after tracking to the creative stage during mixing. Features include automatic pitch correction, a manual note editor, breath control, gate, compressors, saturation, EQ, a de-esser, doubler, limiter, reverb, delay and many built-in Style presets.
Quickly get the 60's Motown vocal sound, or the sound of early 90's grunge rock, sound, a subtle jazz vocal or a modern pop sound - everything from delicate improvements to highly-produced robotic pitch effects.
- Dozens of built-in Styles that set up the plug-in's Main View and the underlying effect chain
- Configure 11 plug-ins with just one click
- Clean up the vocal with the De-Esser, Breath Control, Gate and Pitch Correction Craft the sound with the Levels, Space and Style-specific controls like Presence, Drive, Grit and more
- Each Style has unique producer-level controls
- As a seasoned professional, you expect the ability to tweak the details of the underlying tools and effects
- If you're just getting started with vocal production, you'll learn the unique settings that define styles from the 40s to today
- In the creative moment, you aren't thinking about thresholds or attack times, you're thinking about getting a grittier or brighter sound
- Nectar packages the complexity of many parameters into intuitive controls like Grit and Warmth, so you can be a musician and not a scientist
- Setup your favorite vocal chains in Nectar and recall them as presets
- Automatically identifies breath sounds allowing you to either reduce the level of all breaths or normalize the breaths to a target level
- Internally, uses a compressor for natural sounding reduction
- Select the key and correction speed and Nectar will automatically tune those out of tune notes
- For creative uses, set the speed to 0 for the robotic pitch effect made popular by Cher, T-Pain and Kanye West
- For more control use the manual pitch correction
Manual:
- Graphically edit the melody and correction amount on individual notes
- Control individual note transitions and even recompose the song by simply dragging the notes
- Designed specifically for voice, the compressors are based on analog models of popular Optical and Solid-State hardware
- The workflow is designed to make it trivial to set up routings like parallel compressors with post filtering that defines the Motown or New York sound
- Drawing from iconic hardware De-Essers, this module is designed to control the sibilance from "s" and similar consonants independent of level
- Intelligently identifies a breath separately from other vocal components
- You can set one "Ess" level, and it will intelligently process the entire vocal track, whether the loud chorus or the delicate verse
- Add warmth and grit to your vocal with 5 saturation models including Analog, Retro, Tape, Tube and Warm
- A unique graphical display and simple roll-off EQ makes it easy to sculpt your sound
- Using high quality pitch shifting and a unique graphical interface, you can quickly set up a range of subtle to extreme effects
- Adjust the gain, pan, pitch and delay of up to four separate voices for a distinctive vocal sound
- High quality processing with a truly intuitive display where you can actually see the frequencies superimposed over the nodes to control them
- Reliable design and graphical feedback make this an easy gate to use
- Extras include RMS Detection mode and Auto Gain
- It's quick and easy to gate out things like microphone bleed between vocal phrases
- Based on iZotope's intelligent limiter technology, the limiter guarantees transparent operation
- Additionally, the unique level histogram display allows you to visualize exactly what's happening to your sound
- Featuring Digital, Tape and Analog modes, the delay includes several unique features like the ability to modulate and distort (or Trash) the delayed signal
- The result is a lot of creative potential in a few simple options
- The reverb was designed and tweaked specifically for vocals
- For additional control, we added a Color parameter to control how dark or bright the reverb sounds
- The graphical display allows you to visualize your changes