Nota Auto Shift
Nota Auto Shift corrects pitch as it plays — gently, so a vocal just sits in tune, or hard, for the robotic hard-tune sound. It can also follow a key it learns from the singing, or the notes of another track.
How it works: it detects the voice’s pitch, picks a target note, and shifts the voice there while keeping the formants (the voice’s character) where they were. The dry signal is delayed by the same amount, and the delay is compensated, so Mix never smears.
Layout: the Pitch column on the left (where the voice is, the correction now), a centre panel with three tabs, a right panel (Shift / Detect) and a status line.
The detected pitch and the corrected pitch on the scale’s note lanes, over time.
Key and Scale — Chromatic, Major, Minor, Penta Maj, Penta Min — or a Custom set: click notes on and off. A histogram of the notes actually sung sits under them. Learn listens for about 16 bars and picks the key; Key Source Auto follows the learned key. Follow Scale device copies the key and scale of a Nota Scale on the track.
The target comes from the notes another track plays (pick it as the device’s sidechain source): Note mode snaps to the exact note, Scale mode uses the notes as a scale; Latch, Oct Lock and a Bend range shape it.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Amount | How far the pitch is pulled to the target |
| Speed | How fast it gets there — slow is natural, instant is hard tune |
| Human | Keeps vibrato around the corrected note |
| Range | Only corrects notes within this distance |
| Shift · Fine | Transpose the result |
| Formant · Formant shift | Keep the voice’s character, or move it on its own (bigger, smaller voice) |
| Mix | Dry / wet |
Detect
Section titled “Detect”Det Low / Det High — the note range to look for — and Det Sens; Skip sibilants leaves “s” and “t” sounds alone.
Presets
Section titled “Presets”34 factory presets: correction (Hard Tune, Robot Voice, Natural Vocal, Transparent Touch, Pop Lead, R&B Runs, Ballad, Rap Hook, Choir Tighten), keys (Auto Key, Chromatic Fix, Minor Key, Pentatonic Pop, Blues in A, Dorian Groove), voices (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass Voice, Lead Instrument), effects (Octave Up, Octave Down, Chipmunk, Monster, Gender Up, Gender Down, Formant Up, Detune Double, Fifth Harmony, Harmony Lock) and MIDI (MIDI Hard Tune, MIDI Scale Follow, MIDI Melody Replace).