How To Tune Vocals in FL Studio - Newtone Tutorial 

I had an amazing time working with Michael on this song and I can't wait for everyone to hear it. I wanted to share some thoughts relating to this video with other producers, singer/songwriters/vocalists. I've been writing and recording songs for 10 years and I used to be incredibly insecure about my ability to sing. I love songwriting but I hated singing. I'd watch producers chop up my vocals and tune them and I'd have to listen to a loop of my pitchy voice repeating over and over until it was made "right". Tracking vocals gave me anxiety. My ear knew what the performance needed to be and my voice could never get there. 3 things helped me overcome this: 1. A producer that finally said to me "pitch is not king, performance is". I always prioritized pitch above all else. And because we hear music all day long on radio that is corrected or witness singers whose pitch is really strong, it's easy to lose confidence in yourself. It wasn't until a producer made me feel comfortable in that space and said, "Don't worry about getting it perfectly right, just go back to how you felt when you wrote the song" that I started to sing with confidence. Then he would compliment certain parts of the performance. "I love that breath right there!" I love how you said this phrase". Highlight what the singer is doing well. As an artist, I can't tell those of you who produce how important it is to communicate with your artist in whatever stage of recording they feel overwhelmed by. 2. Don't be afraid to go for the long takes. Michael mentions in this video that we do full song takes. He was surprised by this approach when we were working together. It is so easy as a singer to obsess with getting things just right when going phrase by phrase. It's why I've stopped doing this. I sing the whole song from start to finish. It helps me step into the emotion of the song. Every line builds upon the next. Rather than singing 5 words over and over and over and trying to get it "right'. 3. This is for those of you who struggle with pitch and want to improve. You can take voice lessons, yes. However, what helped me more was setting up a camera and audio recorder and recording live videos of my songs. That's why you'll find so many of these videos on my channel. It's not just about content. It's about growing myself as a performer. When you listen and watch yourself sing and pay attention to the parts that make you cringe, your brain actually starts working on those aspects of your technique. For 4 years now I've been making one take, live videos and if you go back and watch the first and then the most recent, I guarantee you'll see a difference in my performance. Not only that, the videos from years ago were 1 of 15 takes. Now I do 1 take. I take pride in this. It's important to remember this is all a process. We're all working hard to get better. That should be the goal! Embrace the process and make getting better the priority. You'll be surprised by your progress. Hope some of that insight helps! We should all work to encourage each other in what we love doing. If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them! Thanks for what you do Michael! I'm having a blast working with you.

Me: After hours of editing, nah, the original sounds better

Please do ask any questions about singing, recording and vocal tuning, David and I will be happy to help you out :)

Dude, your tutorials are genuinely perfect in every way. Concise and informative. Keep it up!

Can't stress enough how valuable the information you hand out for free is. Thank you dude, you're a hero.

Just a tip to make keeping the natural breath sounds little easier, is when you use the cutting tool, and right click on the vocal to fix the sound, simply don't do that to the breath parts. They will sound the same and you can leave them in without having to chop and cut them out from the original track.

Busy works beat and you are really the greatest channel for making music. It took me a long time to release my own work because I wanted to be as good as possible. But now, I’m feeling confident enough to release my own stuff thanks to you!

I like how your voice is calm and not screaming like all the other youtubers

Dude this changed the game completely for me. I'm a terrible singer but I love poetry so I make music just for my self and this really helped me improve the sound a tenfold. Much love man!

What a brilliant tutorial. I spent days feeling frustrated because the vocals in my song sounded off, while almost everything else was fine. After watching this 20 minute video and applying the techniques learnt, the vocals sound 100 times better! Thank you so much!

Him: *talking about how the two voices sounded different* Me: *Convinced they do, but I can't seem to find it*

I love how helpful your tutorials are! You don't waste time, you get right to it.

Just wanted to say that your channel is wonderful. I've looked through many FL Studio tutorials and nobody else makes videos that are so easy to understand while also getting right to the point on all the important things like you do. Thank you so much :)

Thank you for your service David.

There's no better FL Studio channel on RU-vid. Not even close. Thank you!

Love this guy and his videos. The way he explains and the simplicity with which he does it..... Its just what I need. Thanks a ton pal..

Your videos are the best vids I've found on the entire RU-vid mate, so detailed and easy to understand once you teach it! Proper English gentleman 😂 for us commoners lol

The thing is if i had never seen this video idk where my vocal tuning would be, producing hip hop is usually just autotune but there is a bit of vocal tuning involved, but it sounds even better when you just tune it. After seeing this i finally realized practicalls every song you hear on the radio has at least some pitch-correction of some sort on the vocals, and that you dont really have to worry about being a great singer. Respect

Sounded perfect to me in the beginning, I thought you already applied all the corrections 😂

literally in the first 27 seconds MY MIND WAS BLOWN - this plugin is supernatural EDIT after watching the whole thing: ...blown out of existance. This plugin is awesome absolutely great video! :)

Usually when I mess with the autotune newtone I always get the thing you were talking about in 16:17 with the raspyness in the breath/inhumane voice quality, but it's not only to the breaths, the annoying sound also spawns when saying the letters " S " and " F " Can you do a video tutorial on that or at least help out by replying? I'm sure there are many others who wonder about this and how you can fix this. In another pitch correcter there is a fix I think if you cut the tuning/autotuning entirely from the part when the ess'es or f's are heard in the vocal, but in FL Studio/Newtone I don't see any option to control the tuning of a letter in a word.

He really put golden tutorial out there 4 free, what a chad ! Everybit of knowledge is understandable and we can feel his thoughful attitude in his speaking 🥰

12:44 "In The Mix"

I almost gave up as i can't afford a vocal pitch correction device or plugin.After this tutorial I said to me, 'you'll do just fine'.Thanks Michael !

When i go to drag audio out of newtone it drops the smallest pattern possible and no audio is in there. Not sure if i habe something selected that I shouldn’t but can anyone help?

I'm not that much good...! I was fl studio mobile user and now I'm using FL from last month And I'm collaborating with someone...! This video saved my life ...! Love and respect to you Sir....! ❤️🙏🏻 Your student From 🇮🇳

Excellent video. I started messing with newtone a year ago. It's crazy how many things I missed.

Man... can I say that you just become my god of mixing and mastering? Not even in my music production academy I've learnd to realy listen like i do in your videos... Compliments!!!

Thank you sooo much Michael❤. I've always wanted to get more comfortable with using newtone and now I finally have, this video has been so much help! I guess even after all the trouble u went through making this vid, it hella was worth it!🙏😂

I've been looking forward to this one, this was definitely the most important part of the FL package that you had yet to cover, and it's definitely been worth the wait :)

Although not an FL Studio user, I am watching this video to see what's out there (MixCraft Pro 9 being my DAW of choice). I really like your straight-to-the-point style of presentation. In some other videos, people just repeat the same info again and again. Many thanks for sharing!

If mike thinks this needs autotune wait until he hears my singing😂

Just a powerful tool for pitch correction, both for your own vocals and samples. It makes the range at which you can use certain samples so much wider.

BEST TUTORIALS in youtube, really focused in MUSIC as ART. congratz man and THANKS

i was searching so long for autotune plugins, but it seems its ALWAYS the best idea to search for your vids. Because i had that plugin in my bundle for years already. xD Thank you so much for making these vids my man!!

Wow, Thank you man. This is the best tutorial I have found for Newtone. Thank you for this, you got a new subscriber.

The experiencie you give away is Just invaluable i've been watching a lot of tutorials around RU-vid but not much ppl decide to give away what they already know and that's also a time saver for the New users!

Thankyou Both so much.. Always Super Helpful. All your tutorials are so well explained. Your an asset to humanity. Much love from Australia

Why quality is ruined when exported from Newton to playlist Can you suggest a way to maintain quality after processing

You are the best at what you do and on my said you are number one on RU-vid. Thank you so much for your work

Love ur videos man! I've been using FL since forever, but every time I watch one of ur videos, I realize I'm missing out on so many cool features. Thanks so much! :) P. S: David's voice is amazing.

Useful in more ways than you can imagine. Thanks for all the work you put into these tutorials.

This man is awsome ! So detailed video with right amount of extra infromation needed. Thnaks man !

Incredible tutorial, this plug-in can save the day in so many instances, (provided you know how to use it). I had 'no idea' where to start and you have totally saved the day again. Thank you for caring enough to provide this help, it's fantastic. cheers!

That was comprehend able, great tutorial ❤️👏🔥💯

Awesome, awesome, awesome tutorial. You genuinely do a great job at explaining different concepts, and you're very thorough. Your definitely one of the best.

The best channel for learning how to make music

You just gained a subscriber, and it's not wven because i needed help with vocals i just happened to click on this video and enjoy watching youtubers helping others who seek help

technically perfect but really its garbage lmao! good video learned somthn new thanks man !

I’ve been using melodyne for 2 years and never realised how much more efficient newtone is

Technically perfect but is garbage

Hey bro you are awesome. Learnt so much from your videos. Keep it up! :)

People with your ability to make the best use of their resources, and share how to best use those resources with others, should be given all the resources they can reasonably ask for. :)

This is the best pitch correction tutorial I've ever watched. 💜 ✨

It's 11.50 here and I'm binge watching your videos.

It’s such a blessing that information like this is free!! Thank you

Thanks ones again. Dont need to worry about melodyne anymore

Dude your content is 10/10, really careful and supportive teaching, thanks a lot

David has the most beautiful voice.

Sir, your tutorials are masterpieces

What a mindblowing plugin. Thank you so much for producing this content and helping creative people sail through this technological infrastructure we call FL Studio with a guide. You are a Virgil, sir and I a Dante.

you just made my life much easier bro, much love ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Bro ,, you almost teach me everything about fl studio...😊😊Thank You very much

So many pro tips. Thanks for sharing them with everyone.

Wow! very good video!! i realy liked your personal appreciations! other tutorials only speak about the vst funtions but no about their aplications!! very useful and interesting information!! thanks!!

"i hope that this tutorial has been useful for you" YESSIR !! i loved it !

I love your tutorials, helped me sooo much already❤

Oh my... What a tutorial! How can I give you two likes instead of one? Awesome work!

Incrediblly helpful tutorial - I had no idea about NewTone! Thumbs Up.

Subbed!! Seriously appreciate your help, it has helped me tremendously in this recording journey. Damn near walked into the desert blind folded with an empty canteen when I had started using FL

This is hard for me to describe but I saw an ad where someone took their vocals and changed them to match the same pitch as their midi and it sounded like some type of lofi filter or something and they added it to the background of the original vocals and it sounded amazing. Do you have any videos on something like that because I’ve been searching for how to do it for so long😂

This video is much more precious than a ton of gold bars to me.. Thanks for sharing us .

you are doing a good job mike, keep up the good work, this really helped me out a lot, i really appreciate it. one day, you are going to make it big, but you need to experience with different vocalists, brad wont cut it.

He has a really good voice. Amazing tutorial as well! Thank you

You are by far the best guide I've ever seen for new ppl getting into audio. Absolutely perfect tutorial

if i cut the part out of a track i want to edit when i open the audio sample the whole song comes up, how do i best separate it to where when i click the part i cut, only that becomes available to edit?

Couldn't wait to go try it on my project. Great work

Pitch correction section, I love it

This channel is GOATED 🐐

Really well explained. This is a great tutorial.

Newtone is a huge tool to think I'd have to spend 500 bucks on the version of melodyne with all these features is crazy. If it just did polyphonic audio it'd be my favorite beginner plugin and I wouldn't have to debate buying the 800 dollar version of melodyne. If I got a melody or harmony in my head can't play I can sing it and get the midi like that. Edit: I say beginner plugin because I'm learning the piano to improve my workflow and it's great for using both as a crutch in the meantime and as a tool to better my own ear when I want to play a melody that's in my head to know what the notes are without having to fiddle around on my keyboard hearing other notes before finding the one I'm after and can just resing the melody in my head using the proper note names to help really train my ear to recognize notes immediately.

Just had an idea. For the breath sections you can make cuts on each breath mute them then consolidate the vocal take with out the breath’s. Then do your editing in newtone. Maybe this will cut some time down.

Greatest newtone tutorial ever

Amazing stuff, like usual. Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge with us, brother! Great work!👍🏻

I am very glad that I stumbled upon your video

Best way to think about it - In a live performance, a tiny bit of "off" pitch no one is going to notice or care about - they only heard it once. But on a recording, that vocal will be listened to an UNNATURAL amount of times, so it's fair to make it sound UNNATURALLY good.

Thanks for all your videos, I'm learning so much!!!

Hello ! I didn't noticed there were an melodyne inside Fl ! Thank you very much !

This tutorial was insane! Learned so much from it. Thank you so much. Your stuff is always super on point and so helpful. :) go on with that great videos

So I was having this problem where I would drag and drop the pitch-corrected audio into the timeline, but it would revert to the unedited version. I learned that this is because I do not own the full version of Newtone. I believe you can get around it by recording the Newtone plugin playback with Edison.

Fantastic video and tutorial! Thank you so much!

Bro you saved my whole entire life.....

Amazing, quality videos over and over again keep up the work bro ‼️

So comprehensive, in detail and easy to understand bro, you should found the Harvard of Music or something : p

Damn that vibrator was a game changer! i was stuck with flat notes sounding like a robot :)

best tutorial youtuber ever, great work, so much helping me

thank you bro

your music theory is on point

I found The best way to understand this plugin is inspire the melody (which is vocal now you are working on) or play the actual notes with piano or any other instrument to get the real melody and feeling (Because now you are not that good to feel everything by ear, nor the singer, which is why you are using this but you will be surprised how good you will become) if you are much batter, then with variations...this way you are not messing around but reaching so mucb yourself..

Thank God I found this channel. Oh my gosh it's time to make music.