Synchro Arts has launched VocAlign 7, the biggest overhaul of its time-alignment tool in years. The headline is a multitrack workspace, track-based pitch and timing control, and a reworked link with RePitch 2.
VocAlign is one of those tools you stop noticing because it is always there: it tucks a doubled vocal take under the lead, nudging the timing so the two breathe together. Version 7, released on 24 September 2026, is not a facelift. It changes how you work vocal stacks, moving from a track-by-track routine to a single, DAW-style timeline view.
A multitrack view that changes the workflow
The centrepiece is the multitrack workspace. Until now, aligning a choir or a wall of doubles meant opening the tool track after track, picking a guide, then starting over. VocAlign 7 shows every vocal in a session in one window, like a self-contained timeline. You pick a reference track and the rest snap into place with a click, with no switching between layers.
That shift is more than a convenience. On a modern pop record that easily stacks twenty to thirty vocal tracks, the time spent aligning each double by hand ran into tens of minutes. The multitrack view brings that down to a handful of moves, and a visual energy analysis across all tracks flags the spots that drift.
Pitch joins the loop
VocAlign’s historic gap was pitch: it handled timing and left tuning to RePitch or other correctors. Version 7 adds pitch and timing control that you can apply globally or per track, with a SmartPitch function that pulls doubles closer to the guide’s intonation. It stays true to form: this is tightening, not robotising.
There is also independent formant control, used to shape stacks and build believable doubles without the voice turning cartoonish as soon as you move it. And SynchroLink 2.0 ties VocAlign 7 Pro and RePitch 2 together more tightly, so alignment and tuning chain without an intermediate export.
Two editions, two prices
VocAlign 7 comes in Standard and Pro. Standard targets fast alignment of vocal stacks; Pro adds the finest track-based control, formant control and the deepest SynchroLink 2.0 integration. It runs on Windows 10 and later, macOS 10.14 and later, in VST3, AU and AAX.
| Edition | New licence | Upgrade | Aimed at |
|---|---|---|---|
| VocAlign 7 Standard | $149 | from $69 | Fast alignment of vocal stacks |
| VocAlign 7 Pro | $199 | from $99 | Track-based control, formants, SynchroLink 2.0 |
If you track vocals all day, the appeal is obvious: fewer clicks, a view that takes in the whole stack, and pitch correction finally living next to timing. Anyone building full vocal chains will feel the time saved before they even reach the rest of the chain. The official page lists editions and upgrade pricing.
My take
The multitrack view was the missing piece, and it is far more than a gimmick. Treating a stack of vocals as one thing, rather than a queue of tracks to open one by one, is the kind of detail that saves half an hour per song on a busy project. Folding pitch into the same tool removes the back-and-forth, as long as you keep a light hand: SmartPitch should tighten, not flatten. At this price, and given the time it claws back, the upgrade is an easy call for anyone churning out vocal productions.
