Specifications

Audio Plug-Ins Guide126
quire smaller crossfades. Long crossfade times
may over-smooth a signal and its transients.
This is may not be desirable on drums and other
material with sharp transients.
Use the Crossfade slider to adjust and optimize
crossfade times. For audio material with sharper
attack transients, use smaller crossfade times.
For audio material with softer attack transients,
use longer crossfade times.
Min Pitch Sets the lowest pitch used in the plug-
in’s Pitch Shift processing. The control has a
range of 40 Hz to 1000 Hz. Use it to focus the
Pitch Shift process according to the audio’s
spectral shape.
Use lower values when processing lower fre-
quency audio material. Use higher values when
processing higher frequency audio material.
Accuracy Sets the processing resources allo-
cated to audio quality (Sound) or timing
(Rhythm). Set the slider toward Sound for better
audio quality and fewer audio artifacts. Set the
slider toward Rhythm for a more consistent
tempo.
Time Correction Disabling this option has the ef-
fect of “permanently varispeeding” your audio
file. The file’s duration will be compressed or
extended according to the settings of the Coarse
and Fine pitch controls. When Time Correction
is enabled, fidelity can be affected. For example,
time expansion as a result of Time Correction
when lowering pitch can cause the audio to
sound granulated.
Pitch Shift Reference Pitch
Controls
The following controls let you use a reference
pitch as an audible reference when pitch-shift-
ing audio material.
Reference Pitch Activates the sine wave-based
reference tone.
Note Adjusts the frequency of the reference tone
in semitones (half steps).
Detune Provides finer adjustment of the fre-
quency of the reference tone in cents (100ths of
a semitone).
Level Adjusts the volume of the reference tone
in dB.
Using Reference Pitch
To use Reference Pitch:
1 Select the audio material you want to use as a
pitch reference. Click the preview button to be-
gin playback of the selected audio.
2 Click the Reference Pitch button to activate the
reference sine wave tone.
3 Adjust the Note and Detune settings to match
the reference tone to the pitch of the audio play-
back. Adjust the Gain setting to change the rela-
tive volume of the reference tone. It may also be
helpful to toggle the Reference Pitch on and off
to compare pitch.
4 Select the audio material to be pitch shifted.
5 Adjust the Coarse and Fine Pitch Shift controls
to match the pitch of the audio playback to the
reference pitch.
6 Click Render to apply pitch shift to the selec-
tion.