Nectar 4 Explained
If you're having trouble getting your vocals to sit right in the mix or sound right in general, Nectar 4 is for you. And in this Nectar 4 video course, production expert Eli Krantzberg will teach you everything you need to know to start achieving pro results with it in no time at all. You'll learn about all the modules included with the suite, including what they can do, how they do it, and how to tweak the parameters to achieve the effect you want. Whether it's some subtle EQ, fully tuned and hyper-compressed, or anything in between, it's all here. These videos are designed for new Nectar 4 users.
Videos
• Welcome to Nectar 4 (05:48) - Take a quick tour around Nectar 4 as you learn about what this plug-in is capable of.
• Auto Level Mini Module (06:21) - Learn how this mini module is used to automatically adjust the micro dynamics within a vocal. It is designed as an intelligent and transparent tool to tame mouth noises while also evening out the level before further processing.
• Pitch & Tuning (06:34) - Explore the Pitch module and mini module and see how it's used form everything from natural-sounding vocal tuning to robotic quantized vocal effects, transposition, formant shifting, and more.
• Backer Module (06:20) - Hear how this takes formant shifting to the next level, by using AI-based singing voice conversion technology to shift the formants and sibilance of the input vocal into those of either a preset-based or custom target vocal.
• Voices Module Pt. 1 (07:03) - Discover this fantastic-sounding module used to build harmonies by creating pitch-shifted copies of a vocal track.
• Voices Module Pt. 2 (03:45) - Watch as a MIDI controlled version of Nectar Voices is set up in Logic Pro, enabling the ability to control the pitches of voices either using a MIDI controller in real time or playing back recorded MIDI notes.
• Vocal Unmask (06:52) - Discover the fantastic inter-application capabilities of Nectar 4, as it's used on instrument tracks in conjunction with the unmask feature. Unmask intelligently creates an optimal starting point to help a vocal stand out in the mix by carving away frequencies from other elements that interfere with it.
• EQ Module Pt. 1 (06:11) - Learn the fundamentals of how this module is used to equalize the frequency range of a vocal by cutting or boosting selected areas of the frequency spectrum with filters of various shapes and slopes.
• EQ Module Pt. 2 (05:19) - Discover the beautifully nuanced EQ responses of dynamic frequency and gain-based tracking, where changes to the filters are based either on the fundamental and harmonics of the incoming vocal or on the vocal level, which is determined by a user definable threshold.
• Compressor Module (06:39) - Hear how the compressor module is used to reduce dynamic range, maintain consistent levels, and shape the tone and character of a vocal track.
• Gate Module (04:56) - Discover how this is used to attenuate undesirable signal content in the breaks between phrases of a vocal track.
• Breath Control (03:49) - Learn how to use this simple purpose-based standalone plug-in to reduce breaths either to a user defined level or by a user defined amount.
• Dimension Module (05:44) - Hear how chorus and flanger processes are used to create thickening doubled effects by delaying and modulating a copy of the source signal before mixing it back with the original. And hear how the phaser creates tonal variation by modulating the positioning of steep notches created with an all-pass filter in a copied version of the source signal.
• Delay Module (05:57) - Learn how to use this intuitive set of delay-based controls to thicken and add a sense of space to a vocal track, either by creating wide tempo-synced repeats of the source signal or tight modulated and/or filtered delays for lush thickening effects.
• Reverb (05:54) - Explore the use of reverb to add a space and character to your vocal. Hear two different examples with reverb used at two different stages in the signal chain.
• Saturation Module (05:27) - Hear the lovely variety of even and odd harmonic generating saturation types offered, ranging from the warm rounding of sharp transients, through to intense distortion.
• De-esser Module (04:44) - Discover how this is used to control sibilance and tame other high frequency issues in a vocal track.
• Vocal Assistant (06:51) - See how this machine-learning component in Nectar 4 analyzes your vocal, creates a processing chain based on a vocal target profile, and provides Intent controls to make broad changes to the underlying parameters used in the effects chain.
• Target Profiles & AudioLens (04:26) - Learn how to bring in your own custom vocal targets for use with the Nectar 4 Vocal Assistant and two to use AudioLens to extract a vocal profile from a full mix.
• Presets (02:37) - Learn how to save and manage your own custom presets.
• What Would Happen If? (04:47) - Explore some unusual ways of using the individual Nectar 4 component plug-ins on various instrumental tracks.