pfm·v1 · vst3
fig. a — dry take
no punch-ins
48 khz
02 performative
real-time engine
2.6 ms

Sing
Through

Pitch correction you can sing through — real time, at latency built for the monitor chain. It moves the note and leaves the rest of the take alone.

s07 · a · one take
artist / plugin cutout → drop image here
same take · a/b Nothing else in the chain changes.
0:00 / 0:16
tab. 01 — latency
moderelative delay · floorlatency
Live 50 Hz 2.6 ms
Crisp 80 Hz 18 ms
Voice 80 Hz 28 ms
Full 50 Hz 44 ms

End-to-end delay against the dry take, swept at 44.1, 48, and 96 kHz across three retune speeds — the same number at every rate and every speed. Live runs a drift-resampler path that holds correction at 2.6 ms while tracking the full range down to 50 Hz. The three PSOLA modes trade latency for depth: Crisp at 18 ms and Voice at 28 ms both hold an 80 Hz floor, and Full reaches down to 50 Hz at 44 ms. Notes below a mode's floor pass through untouched.

fig. 01 — retune trace raw · corrected
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method

Tested against the best, by ear.

Nothing ships on a hunch. Every audible change is measured against the industry-standard tuner on real recordings, then confirmed in blind listening before it merges. Most ideas don't survive that.

01

Latency first

The engine is built for a live chain. Every processing block has a latency budget, checked before it ships, and note transitions land where you sang them.

02

Key-aware

Pick a key and correction lands only on the notes in it. Toggle individual notes for custom scales, or run chromatic and correct to every semitone.

03

Character, dialed

Retune speed runs from transparent touch-up to full hard-tune. Character presets are stored apart from song setup, so the sound survives a key change.

The full Performative plugin window, Graphite theme
The full plugin window, Graphite theme. Both themes ship — same token names, swapped values.
features

What comes with the plugin.

formats
VST3. Windows x64, and macOS Universal — Intel and Apple silicon.
hosts
Tested in Ableton Live 11 and 12, REAPER, and Audacity. Any other VST3 host should work — Cubase, Studio One, FL Studio, Bitwig Studio. Logic, GarageBand and Pro Tools load AU and AAX only, so they cannot host it.
range modes
Live at 2.6 ms, Crisp at 18, Voice at 28, Full at 44 — each a different trade between latency and how deep it tracks. Live and Full follow down to 50 Hz; Crisp and Voice hold an 80 Hz floor.
retune speed
Transparent touch-up through instant hard-tune.
flow
Snap for classic hard-tune, or Ride to follow fast motion and correct on arrival.
key & scale
Chromatic, major, minor, or toggle single notes for a custom scale.
mix & output
Blend the corrected signal against the dry, and trim level on the way out.
monitoring
Listen to the source, and a live readout of detected note, target, and cents.
presets
Character saved apart from song setup, so the sound survives a key change.
languages & themes
Thirteen languages, picked from your system on first run. Porcelain and Graphite.

Performative Ear

free companion

Drop it on the master or an instrumental bus and it answers one question: what key is this song in? A neural detector listens to the last 15 seconds and keeps averaging for as long as the song plays, then hands the key to Performative over sixteen bytes of shared memory on your own machine — no files, no network. It exists because a plugin on the vocal only ever hears the vocal, which is the weakest key evidence there is. Free, VST3, bit-transparent, no added latency.

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