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in each voice. Again, the actual amount of
variation will be different (and continuously
variable) for each active harmony voice.
The third effect of the Naturalize function is
to control how much of the original vocal’s
inherent pitch variations, either vibrato or
expressive pitch gestures like scoops and
bends, will appear in the harmony voices. At
a setting of 0, none of the input vocal’s pitch
variation will be present in the harmony voices.
NOTE: In Fixed Interval mode (only),
the harmony voices will always
parallel all of the original input’s
vibrato and pitch gestures. Setting the Naturalize
function above 0 in that case will actually
accentuate (i.e., expand the range of) the vibrato
and gestures.
The range of the control is from 0 (no pitch
or timing variation or input vibrato or pitch
gestures) to a maximum of 100 (lots of pitch
and timing variation and harmony voices
duplicate the input vibrato and/or pitch gestures
— except in Fixed Interval mode as mentioned
above) .
Option (Mac)/Control (PC)-clicking the knob
returns it to its default value.
Vibrato Controls
The following two controls are used to add a
programmable vibrato to each Harmony Voice.
In using these controls, it’s useful to consider
the following principles:
•
If the original vocal does not contain its own
natural vibrato, you can feel free to do pretty
much whatever you want with the Vibrato
controls.
•
If the original vocal 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). The range is from 1.0 Hz to 9.0 Hz. In the
interest of realism, the actual rate applied to
each harmony voice will slightly (and randomly)
vary from the set amount.
The default Vibrato Rate is 5 Hz. Option (Mac)/
Control (PC)-clicking the knob returns it to its
default value.
Vibrato Pitch Amount
This control sets the depth of the vibrato’s pitch
and amplitude modulation. The range is from
0 (no variation) to a maximum of 100. As with
the Vibrato Rate control above, the actual range
applied to each harmony voice will slightly (and
randomly) vary from the set amount.
The default Pitch Amount value is 0 (i.e., no
vibrato). Option (Mac)/Control (PC)-clicking the
knob returns it to that value.