11.3

NEPTUNE PITCH ADJUSTER AND VOICE SYNTH604
The display
The big display in the center of the Neptune panel shows the following information:
• The Input Pitch of the incoming audio signal.
The detected Input Pitch is displayed as a yellow vertical line above the keyboard.
• The Target Note to which Neptune corrects the output signal.
The Target Note is displayed as a green vertical line above selected notes on the keyboard.
• An orange horizontal line between the Input Pitch and the Target Note.
The orange line shows the distance and direction from Input Pitch to Target Note.
• The Catch Zones, i.e. the pitch “window” which determines to what Target Note to correct the Input Pitch.
The Catch Zones are displayed as red horizontal boxes above each selected key on the virtual keyboard. As soon
as a detected Input Pitch lies within a Catch Zone, the Catch Zone box above the corresponding Target Note
switches to green. See “Setting Catch Zone Size”.
• The virtual keyboard, where you can select your own notes or custom scale to correct the audio to.
See “Setting Root Key and Scale”.
Setting up for pitch processing
The most flexible method of performing pitch adjustments is to apply it to already recorded audio tracks in the se-
quencer. Doing so will give you total freedom to edit and change the pitch adjustment settings afterwards without
needing to re-record any audio.
To set up Neptune for pitch adjustments of recorded audio tracks, proceed as follows:
1. Create a Neptune device and use the Reason Rack Plugin instance as an insert effect on the audio track.
2. If you want to control the pitch adjustment via your MIDI keyboard, route MIDI to the Neptune device from your
DAW.
Now, you are all set for pitch adjustments of the audio track. For information about pitch correction, see “Using pitch
correction”, for information about pitch-shifting, see “Using pitch shifting (Transpose)”, and for info about creating ad-
ditional vocal harmonies, see “Using the Voice Synth”.
Using pitch correction
Pitch correction is great if you, for example, have a vocal track in your song that contains flat notes. Instead of having
to overdub the flat parts on the audio track, you can automatically adjust the pitches of the flat notes using Neptune.
You can also sing through the Neptune in real-time and get a beautifully pitched voice!
There are two basic ways of using pitch correction in Neptune:
• Automatic pitch correction using Scales, see “Using automatic pitch correction”.
• Manual pitch correction using MIDI note input, see “Using manual pitch correction”.
You can also combine the two methods if you like. First of all, though, you will need to make some basic settings: