The T-Pain Engine is for beat-making and vocal recording on either a PC or Mac. There are over 50 professionally crafted song templates made up of hundreds of T-Pain-approved beats. You can do "on the fly" beat drops (mutes) and mix the level relationship of the beat to the two vocal tracks. It comes with a collection of T-Pain beats you can arrange in any order.

After I arranged a backing track in the T-Pain Engine, I hooked up a cheap mic and did my rap right there in front of my Mac (the only willing audience I could get!). I used the Mac's built-in sound capabilities (no DAW hardware required) and the software has a short tutorial in place to "walk you through" setting this up. You can record, punch in and edit vocal tracks and of course, when you're ready, drop in the built-in T-Pain Effect module. Lastly, when you're finished with your recorded masterpiece, export it to your friends over the Web.

The T-Pain plug-in is a highly stylized pitch correction plug-in that comes in VST, AU or RTAS formats to run in any DAW. It includes real-time monitoring and scale presets to match the key of your song or go chromatic--where pitch is quantized to the nearest half step. You can also set the "hardness and softness" to control how strict the retuning action is and advanced users can specify note pitches and create their own scale presets using the built-in keyboard or an external MIDI controller.

Thoughtfully, iZotope kicked in the iDrum: T-Pain Edition, a special version of their popular iDrum virtual drum machine that includes hundreds of custom beats inspired by over 50 new T-Pain iDrum kits. It is compatible with the sounds from other iZotope's iDrum titles and works standalone or "pops ups" for use in The T-Pain Engine. Users can arrange beats into songs, create new kits and patterns, import and/or edit their own samples.