New Music Gear Monday: Sonible prime:vocal Vocal Enhancement Plugin

Today when so many artists are recording their vocals at home, the inevitable room and background noises rear their ugly heads. While there are a lot of very good AI-enabled de-noise plugins available, most of those are geared to dialog, with singing not being a priority. Sonible’s new prime:vocal plugin, on the other hand, is designed to not only de-noise a vocal, but enhance it as well.

First of all, Sonible has some of the best AI-powered plugins available to the point where their AI-engine is white-labeled to other manufacturers. And they’re specifically geared to music, not post-production, which can really make a big difference in the final result.

prime:vocal can be operated as a stand-alone app or as a plugin in any ARA-assisted DAW. Whichever way you choose to use it, it automatically begins analyzing the signal and soon as it’s sensed. From there it intelligently sets all the parameters as it sees fit, but there’s a lot of tweaking that’s available to the user as well.

AI-Driven, But Lots To Tweak

For instance, below the large display you’ll find controls for Noise Reduction, Room Reduction, Vocal Clean-Up, Spectral Balance and Dynamics. The Noise Reduction control is designed to remove steady-state noises like air conditioners or fans, or incidents of door slams or car horns, as well as reducing any instrument bleed either from live tracking or headphone leakage. 

Room Reduction reduces the affect of the room on the sound, while Vocal Clean-Up provides both a De-Essing section and a De-Plosive section, where you can choose between bypass, Soft, Medium and Strong settings.

Taking things further, a Spectral Balance parameter processes the signal for general tonal balance.  It features a selectable profile (Vocal Low, Vocal High, Speech Low and Speech High) along with a Color parameter that lets you set Spectral Balance for Warm, Neutral or Bright coloration. 

Next comes the Dynamics processor, which offers several options for level-riding and compression. prime:vocal also features internal automation that allows the user to automate the settings of the various processors over the length of the vocal.

prime:vocal normally sells for $179 but is available for just $119 until January 20th. A 30 day free trial is also available.

Click here to find out more, or watch the video below.