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Vocal rig

Bellows

See your pitch. Fix it with one knob.

  • Pitch correction + graph
  • 11 scales
  • Vocoder + talk box
  • 36 presets
Free demo
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Demo audio is a stand-in until our recorded playing is in

Bellows is a whole vocal chain built around pitch correction you can watch. Sing into it and a scrolling graph draws the note you sang in grey and the note you landed on in ember, while a big readout says how many cents off you were. One knob takes it from natural to fully robotic.

11
scales, or notes from MIDI
5
voices: lead, two harmonies, two octaves
36
presets in seven groups
10 ms
Low Latency mode for tracking

The whole window

Click or tap to see it full size.

Bellows on Thirds Above in A minor: the grey line is the voice as sung, the ember line where it was tuned to.

What it does

Tuning you can see

A piano down the side lights the notes you're allowed. Click a key to switch a note off or on. Pick a key and scale, take the notes from MIDI, or press Listen, play the song, and Bellows works out the key for you.

Five knobs in plain words

Retune Speed runs from ROBOT to NATURAL. Humanize, Flex, Formant and Note Hold each have a word at both ends, and a hint line says what the current setting will do to your voice.

Harmonies and doubles

Two harmony voices follow the scale, a chord you hold on MIDI, or a fixed interval. Add an octave up and down, a 2- or 4-take doubler, or Gang mode: eight singers, each with a slightly different throat.

Vocoder and talk box

An 8- to 32-band vocoder and a talk box, played by a built-in synth that follows your voice, by MIDI, or by any track on the sidechain.

Character effects

Distortion, Fuzz, Telephone, Megaphone, Lo-Fi, Radio, Robot and Industrial, level-matched to your voice, each with its own cuts and gate.

Strip in front, space behind

Gate, EQ, de-esser and a three-style compressor first. Delay and a reverb (Room, Chamber, Plate, Hall, Spring, Shimmer) last. Voice levels go to 200%, so you can push a harmony up and pull it back until it sits.

Signal chain

  1. Gate
  2. Strip
  3. Tune
  4. Pitch
  5. Harmony
  6. Character
  7. Talk
  8. Doubler
  9. Delay
  10. Reverb

Fixed order. Click any tile to open its panel.

36 presets

NATURAL

  • Default
  • Natural Tune
  • Studio Polish
  • Live Mic
  • Gentle Pitch Help

HARD TUNE

  • Hard Tune
  • Trap Melodic
  • Robot Lock
  • Glide Pop
  • Helium

HARMONY

  • Thirds Above
  • Power Fifths
  • Choir Stack
  • Low Octave Double
  • MIDI Chord Choir
  • Gang Vocal

VOCODER

  • Robot Choir
  • 80s Vocoder
  • Sidechain Vocoder
  • Dark Synth Voice

TALK BOX

  • Talk Box Funk
  • Talk Box Lead (MIDI)
  • Guitar Talk Box

CHARACTER

  • Telephone
  • Megaphone
  • Lo-Fi Bedroom
  • Gritty Rock
  • AM Radio
  • Robot Voice
  • Fuzz Shout
  • Industrial Shout

SPACE

  • Big Ballad
  • Slapback
  • Ping-Pong Hook
  • Shimmer Dream
  • Spring Slap

Specs

TypeAudio effect with MIDI in and a sidechain input
Put it onA vocal track
Latency20 ms, or 10 ms in Low Latency mode
WindowResizable, 60% to 160%
SystemWindows 10 or 11, 64-bit. VST3 plugin and standalone app. Mac version planned.
LicenceOne key for everything on your order, checked offline. No iLok, no account.

Bellows

$20

Yours to keep, on every computer you own. Try the free demo first: everything works, with a short gap every 45 seconds until you add a key.

Free demo

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