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FreqncyStyle (Frequency Style) allows selection of pre-
configured modeling tones for your voice. The range
covers thick-sounding effects to thin.
Amt (Frequency Amount) allows you to add more or
lessen the Frequency effect.The amount set when the
style is loaded is what was created at the factory.
Note that further Frequency modification can be
performed with the Trct (Tract) parameter in menu L9
and the Frmt (Formant) and Hybr (Hybrid) parameters
in menu S1.These are explained below.
Growl/Breath (GlottalStyle) - menus
L8 to L9
The Growl/Breath block can be used to create the
intimate sound of a breathy singer, whispers, or an
effect that evokes the gravelly voices of singers like
Louis Armstrong and Bob Seger. While a preset using
these effects can be imposed on a recorded voice, a the
most effective technique is to sing while hearing the
effect. It is possible to use either a Breath effect or
Growl effect but not both at once. Breath effects are
summed, or mixed with your voice whereas Growl
effects are 100% wet at all times.
L8: Glottal Style and Amount
The Glottal Style allows you to choose Brth (Breath)
or Grwl (Growl) styles.
Amount allows you to add more breath or growl effect
to the maximum set by the style.
L9:Voice, Glottal Mix and Tract Control
The Voice and Glotl (Glottal Level) controls work for
Breath styles only.
The Voice setting allows you to reduce the level of your
voice if desired to make the breath effect more
prominent. Note that you can remove your voice
completely with this parameter allowing you to hear
the Breath effect alone.
The Glotl (Glottal) setting allows you to add or
remove level to of the Breath effect beyond the style
value.
Trct (Tract) is a further modification of the Frequency
effect. It is used to personalize the effect to the
individual singer. For a given style to sound its best, a
deep-voiced singer would be set to values less than
100 and a thin-voiced singer would be set above 100.
Of course this can be used to attain interesting effects
as well!
A value of 100 sets no Tract effect. If No Style is loaded,
or the value of the current Frequency style is 0, no
Tract effect is possible.
Pitch Shift - menus S0 to S3
Pitch shifting adds tremendously to character voices
you can create. From instant male/female duets to
deep Bass singers to soaring Sopranos, this block
stimulates interest in your listening audience.
Two types of pitch shift may be applied to the modeled
voice: Chromatic and Scale. You can use Chromatic
shift to achieve octave transformations or any
unvarying interval from your input pitch. Scale shifting
allows the modeled voice to be used to sing harmony
in a particular key and scale much like the Scale
harmony capability of the harmony presets only with a
character-rich modeled voice.
S0: Shift Type,Amount and Key*
Shift determines whether the pitch shift is chromatic
(Chroma) or diatonic (Maj1-3, Min1-3, Cust).
*Key - As you change from Chroma to the scales, this
additional parameter appears in the display allowing
you to set the key to match your song. Key is only
shown when the Shift type is non-chromatic.
Amount sets the chromatic (fixed) or diatonic (moving
thirds) interval. When the Shift is set to Chroma, the
Amount is in cents. 0c is no shift.
When Shift is set to the scales, this parameter works
in the same way as the Voicing: Scale parameter does
for a harmony preset based on Scale mode. Uni is the
unison (no shift) value.
S1: Formant, Hybrid Amount
Frmnt (Formant) affects the male or female timbre of
the modeled voice independent of the direction of
pitch shift. This parameter sets the offset from -50,
which is deeper and more male to +50 which is thinner
or more feminine and at high levels, alien. At a setting
of 0 there is no formant change.
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