Want to pitch correct vocals on your Mac without dropping $120 on Antares Auto-Tune? If you've got GarageBand 2, you can — and easily at that with GarageBand's own, built-in pitch correct feature. Get that pop radio sound with this how-to. Celemony’s Melodyne 4 Studio pack is the best pitch correction/auto-tune plug-in for Garageband. The amount of features included with Melodyne 5 – Studio on Plugin Boutique is hard to explain with a few short sentences, which is why this article is so in-depth; I did my best to convey how useful this software has actually been for me.

In this beginner’s guide, i’ll show you how to use autotune in GarageBand for macOS.

Love it or loathe it, Autotune (or pitch correction) is everywhere in music right now.

Gsnap Autotune

While it’s sometimes used as a creative tool in itself, dialed up to 11 to create a robotic, warbling sound that’s become ubiquitous with artists like T-Pain, Will-i-am and Daft Punk, Pitch Correction is just as useful as a way to smooth over some cracks in an other wise solid vocal performance,

It’s become so widely used in modern music production that it’s best to look at it as just another production tool like Reverb, Echo, Distortion or Compression.

Free Autotune Plugin

In GarageBand for macOS, pitch correction exists as a simple and straightforward plugin that you can add to your Audio tracks.