MetaTune

Name: MetaTune
Price: 149 USD
Author: Slate Digital

by Slate Digital · Pitch & Tuning · Automatic tuning

vst3s Score 8.8/10 · rated #4 of 10 pitch & tuning

A modern automatic tuner built around the way vocal producers stack takes. It moves smoothly from natural correction to full robot.

Key detection and simple controls make it quick to set up. It is also part of Slate's subscription.

Best for: Vocals. Genres: Hip-Hop & Trap, Pop, R&B & Soul.

Keywords: vocals, subscription, backing vocals, mixing, extreme, clean, corrective, enhancement, modern, perpetual licence, rap vocals, simple, smooth, thick, tracking, wide.

What it does

MetaTune is Slate Digital's automatic pitch corrector, covering clean correction through to extreme effects, with tools aimed at stacked vocals.

Correction controls: Speed (including Negative Speed for extreme effects), Amount, and a Sustain control that adapts to note length.
Note Stabilizer: stops the correction fluttering between notes.
HeatMaps: show where notes land and how they're being adjusted.
Groups: link several instances so stacked vocals can be adjusted together.
Doubler: a built-in widening and thickening effect.

It's perpetual, or included in Slate Digital's Complete Access subscription.

Source: Slate Digital product page

When to use it

MetaTune sits between Waves Tune Real-Time and Auto-Tune Pro 11: an automatic, low-latency tuner with a modern interface and features for vocal stacks, but no graphical editor or harmony generator. Sound On Sound rated its vibrato handling highly. Slate subscribers already have it.

Best for: tracking and mixing stacked pop and rap vocals, quick hard-tune, and keeping several vocal layers consistent.
Genres: hip-hop, trap, pop and R&B.
Look elsewhere if: you need manual note editing (Melodyne 5, RePitch 2) or harmonies (Auto-Tune Pro 11, Waves Harmony).
Tip: the Note Stabilizer adds a lot of latency (around 280 ms per SOS), so switch it on for mixing rather than tracking.

What producers say

Well received, especially for how natural it sounds.

Sound On Sound (John Walden, 2021): "I can't think of a better real-time pitch-corrector"; praised the vibrato handling, the Sustain control, the Doubler and Groups.
Gripes: very strong, wide vibrato can still trip it up, a limitation SOS put down to real-time tuning in general.

Sound On Sound review

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