

Their other free plug ins might be of interest as well. I have used this heavily since it was first introduced and am still amazed that such an amazing plug in is free! It can save a lot of headaches and help find better quality plugins by sticking with reputable and known brands, and sourcing them from either the companies website or well known sources such as:īeware of flaky sites and companies who often attach bloat/malware to downloads of plug ins that aren't worth even the free price tag. Reimport the audio you just mixed down, and there's your aligned track.I'll start this with the recommendation that you should seek reliable sources when considering free plug ins. Once that's confirmed, go to File > Mix Down to Stems, make sure VOCALIGN is the only selected track, leave all the "Audio options" and "Ignore automation" boxes unchecked, choose a folder to store all the aligned audio clips, set your file naming convention as you want (I leave default), and set format as you want (I use 44100 Hz, 24 Bits, and Mono).ġ1. You should only hear the aligned dub track when you press play in Mixcraft.ġ0. Play with flexibility settings if your audio isn't aligning properly. You will see a yellow line on the Guide track in VocAlign which shows the Dub track alignment, and the speaker icon at the bottom right of VocAlign will be green with the word "Ready" next to it. Click analyze, align, then process to do the alignment.

Press Stop Capture in VocAlign when the section is captured, then uncheck the "Active" box in the plugin window to stop VocAlign's playhead from scrolling forever.Ĩ. Now you can drag unprocessed audio onto GUIDE and DUB tracks, make sure Mixcraft's playhead is set properly before the audio you want to capture, click Capture Audio in VocAlign, and press play in Mixcraft.ħ. Click fx on the VOCALIGN submix track, add VocAlign, and click Edit to open the VocAlign plugin window.Ħ. This is important! Whatever audio is on DUB will be aligned to GUIDE.ĥ. I'll name the submix track VOCALIGN, the first child track DUB, and the second child track GUIDE.Ĥ. Any FX on the parent submix track will process the children audio tracks.ģ. Click & drag the two audio tracks under the submix track so they become indented.

Insert two audio tracks and a submix track.Ģ. Perhaps someone could tweak this process to be more efficient.ġ. I'm not a Mixcraft user, but I downloaded the trial to see if I could help a friend with his VocAlign troubles.
