User Manual

15
Vibrato Controls
The following four controls are used to add an
independently programmable vibrato to each
Harmony Voice. In using these controls, it’s
useful to consider the following principles:
•
If the Input Audio does not contain its own
natural vibrato, you can feel free to do pretty
much whatever you want with the Vibrato
controls.
•
If the Input Audio does contain its own
natural vibrato and the Humanize control
has been set to allow it to be present in the
Harmony Voices (or you are using Fixed
Interval mode), using the Vibrato controls
may cause interference between the natural
and programmed vibratos, with unnatural-
sounding results. This is not to say that this
can’t be an interesting effect, only that it is
unlikely to sound realistic.
•
If the Input Audio contains its own natural
vibrato and the Humanize control is set to
0 (preventing the pitch component of the
natural vibrato from being present in the
Harmony Voices), any loudness component
of the natural vibrato will still be present in
the Harmony Voices. Depending on the
amount of loudness variation, there might still
be interference with programmed vibrato.
However, unless the loudness variation is
fairly extreme, it is unlikely to be a problem.
Vibrato Rate
This control sets the rate of the vibrato (in Hz)
for its Harmony Voice. The range is from 1.0 Hz
to 9.0 Hz.
The default Vibrato Rate values are
slightly different for each Harmony
Voice channel as follows:
Channel 1: 6.2 Hz Channel 3: 5.4 Hz
Channel 2: 5.8 Hz Channel 4: 5.0 Hz
Option (Mac)/Control (PC)-clicking a fader
returns it to its default value.
Vibrato Onset Delay
This control sets the onset delay of the vibrato
for its Harmony Voice. The control reads out in
milliseconds such that there is no vibrato for the
selected time and then there is a transition to
full vibrato over the selected time.
“Huh?” you might be asking. Understandable.
Here’s an example:
If you select 750 (i.e., 750 milliseconds), for
the first 750 ms after the onset of a note,
there will be no vibrato. Over the next 750 ms,
the vibrato will transition from none to the full
amounts set in the Amount controls below.
Therefore, a setting of 750 results in a total of
1500 ms (i.e., a second and a half) from note
onset to full vibrato amounts.
The default Onset Delay values are
slightly different for each Harmony
Voice channel as follows:
Channel 1: 20 Channel 3: 40
Channel 2: 30 Channel 4: 50
Option (Mac)/Control (PC)-clicking a fader
returns it to its default value.
Vibrato Pitch Amount
This control sets the depth of the pitch
modulation for its voice. The range is from 0 (no
pitch variation) to a maximum of 100.
The default Pitch Amount value is 0 (i.e., no
pitch vibrato). Option (Mac)/Control (PC)-
clicking the fader returns it to that value.
Vibrato Amplitude Amount
This control sets the amount of loudness
variation for its voice. The range is from 0 (no
variation) to a maximum of 100.
The default Amplitude Amount value is 0 (i.e.,
no loudness variation). Option (Mac)/Control
(PC)-clicking the fader returns it to that value.