Voice Rack: FX - Vocal Effects Processor 4+

Things seem to work. The effects do work. But wow, is this thing in need of an upgrade. It looks like it was designed with the iPad first released. Extremely outdated design, with very little manual control over the effects. Good thing there are 50 of them.

Also, it has preset banks (A,B,C,D) but I can assign any of them with the effects I want easy access to. So while I have 50 effects to choose from, I can’t assign them to the banks.

Overall, pretty disappointing.

First off: this app works as an AU effect, meaning you can load up multiple instances of it in Audiobus if you want to chain its different effects. (Audiobus is a good bet if you want to record into Garageband, as well - just make GB the output device.)

Beyond that: hey, it's a great (and contained) clearinghouse of studio quality vocal effects! And, even better, it's actually a useful/quirky multi-FX unit no matter what the instrument. The "Hard Tune" Autotune clone does more or less what you expect on vox, but also emphasizes some novel aspects of my MV08 beats; similarly, its various "megaphone" settings can be used to smash an acoustic guitar into "Wish You Were Here" territory, all with the weirdly comforting transparency that marks most of TC's products. It's not the most essential purchase I've ever made - I was already drowning in IAAs and AUs that did most of what it does - but as a pro quality all-in-one vocal lab that does a myriad of things very well, it's well worth the cup of coffee it costs. Don't believe the poor reviews.

The app works well enough and could’ve been my go-to. But once you dial in your settings within a preset and add it to your track, it’s only there while you’ve got that file open. As soon as you close the file and open it back up to get back to work, all the settings reset to default. Very disappointing. Even without reopening the file after closing, if you simply bounce the song to a wav or mp3, the rendered song file has all default settings. How can this still be a problem? This could be one of the best auv3 plug ins around if this problem was solved.