How to Time Align & Sync Vocals Quickly & Perfectly

3:14 Manual alignment using time-stretching (warping)
8:21 Automatic alignment example with female vocals in a future bass tune
14:32 Using VocALign on male rap vocals
17:09 Using VocALign on instruments with a tenor saxophone

In this tutorial we’re going to talk about aligning vocals and instruments. In modern production it’s really common to stack multiple parts to layer and thicken vocals and instruments. It's essential to get a super tight sync between the various vocal or instrument parts for a professional sound.

You might have a vocal stack with a lead, doubles, harmonies, octave parts, whisper tracks and more. Manually aligning all of them with time stretching or warping can be done, but it’s incredibly time-consuming and tedious. It eats up hours, or even days, of precious studio time.

A plugin from Synchro Arts called Vocalign Pro 4 can do this in seconds. In this video we’ll cover how to do manual alignment with time stretching, and then show how to use Vocalign Pro to do this automatically. We’ll use 3 distinct examples to show how the process works using a female vocal stack in a future bass tune, male rap vocals in a future hip hop tune, and even on tenor saxophone to show how it works on an acoustic instrument.

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[endlesssky]

Using the groovebox in Ableton is also a really easy way to get you vocals really tight in the track. Extract the groove from you drums and put that on your vocals.

[RoodyCall]

vocal align one of my best buys for mixing

[Adarkjet]

Very good idea creating a project to record vocals.

[ernestorodriguez]

Thank you. Is there ay software or plugin that let me align vocals with the piano accompaniment? I would like to automate the manual work of cutting each syllables to match the piano beats.

[pbensonfran]

I have a question. Is there a time a person would allow for off timing with the lead vocal n background vocals for naturalism? The genre I am speaking about would be Jazz. I was thinking how The Andrew Sisters did there music. But, of course, they may have been so align anyway working together all the time. Sometimes Al Jeareau would use background vocals. Thank you

[RTX-zoyc]

It was useful tutorial... saxophone was dope

[makhulo]

Would You say, that Voc Align changes the sound of the Vocal? I feel like it sounds more electronic, due to the warping the Programm does..

[starnr]

I usually time align with the click track. I like your workload alot more tho this seems very helpful

[AllieJessing]

Both of these songs are sick, where can I listen to them?

[thisbusinessofmusic]

It might be nice that when the speaker icon is red or green it would be great if it said in text red or green for the folks that are color blind. To me red and green are the same color.

[Julia-zdts]

The link to buy VocALign doesn't work. Did it work for anyone else?

[bboygavin]

knew there were secrets that weren't being told

[BenCaesar]

Keen on vocalign but ilok usb is an absolute no for me 🦶🏽

[mychinabean]

Question, how do you align multiple regions per track? Like choruses spread apart in the song. Vocalign won’t record all 3 it keeps clearing what it did in first chorus to do next chorus. Cheers

[AldyWaani]

yeah i did separate sessions or projects too between recording and production.
Great tips btw! ⚡️

[butterflyj]

How does this help? What about having phasing issues when perfectly aligning tracks?

[AnthonyJams]

I used flex pitch on my vocals and all of a sudden they're completely out of sync. Can anyone help me? Desperate over here.

[DJewel-vyuo]

This seems more like a promotion, thanks though.

[masimusic]

Ableton swiss army knife.dll causes a bad tone built in no matter what you do its there, and index.exe spikes cpu and delay compensation fucks time dont use ableton