Baby Audio Humanoid $129 PC MAC
Computer Music|November 2024
Humanoid brings the ‘extreme’ and ‘radical’ to the world of vocals, but is also one of the easiest plugins to use and abuse, says Andy Jones
Andy Jones
Baby Audio Humanoid $129 PC MAC

The world of robotic tuned effects is still big business, whether you agree with the fact that the music industry still seems overly fixated with the effect – over a quarter of a century after Cher made it famous with Believe – or not. Baby Audio is now one of the biggest music software developers, having released some stunning plugins, including the multi-award-winning and at least 9/10 scoring Transit, TAIP, Parallel Aggressor, Comeback Kid, Crystalline, and Spaced Out. It was only a matter of time, then, until BA would meet the vocal effect, and here we have the result: Humanoid!

The usual… but not

In typical BA fashion, there are few controls that you’ll find on other automatic vocal tuning plugins; instead, it has opted for more descriptive controls, so these just do what they say: Robotify, De-ess, Warble and Smoothing to name but four. This makes Humanoid one of the easiest vocal tuning/effect plugins to use right out of the box; we had a vocal through it and minutes later were up to speed.

There are five main sections: Pitch, Utility, Synthesize, Filter and Effects. Pitch is your hard tuning area, with a Robotify dial (guess what it does), and the ability to set a scale. Don’t expect natural tuning here; it is dramatic, harder and way more Daft Punk than Adele.

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