Specifications

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ing. It can also be used as an effect. For example,
you can formant shift a male vocal up by five
semitones and it will take on the characteristics
of a female voice.
To enable or disable formant shifting:
 Click the In button. The In button lights when
formant shifting is enabled.
The Formant field displays the amount of for-
mant pitch shifting from –36.00 semitones (–3
octaves) to +36.00 semitones (+3 octaves), with
fine resolution in cents. Adjust the Formant
control or click the Formant field and type the
desired value. The default value is 0.00 semi-
tones, or no formant shift.
X-Form AudioSuite Input
Modes
X-Form supports the Pro Tools AudioSuite In-
put Mode selector for use on mono or multi-in-
put processing.
Mono Mode Processes each audio clip as a mono
file with no phase coherency maintained with
any other simultaneously selected clips.
Multi-Input Mode Processes up to 48 input chan-
nels and maintains phase coherency within
those selected channels.
AudioSuite Preview
X-Form supports Pro Tools AudioSuite Preview
and Bypass. For more information on using Au-
dioSuite Preview and Bypass, see the Pro Tools
Reference Guide.
AudioSuite TCE Plug-In
Preference
The X-Form plug-in’s high quality time com-
pression and expansion algorithms that can be
used with the Pro Tools TCE Trim tool.
To select X-Form for use with the TCE Trim tool:
1 Choose Setup > Preferences.
2 Click the Processing tab.
3 From the TC/E Plug-In pop-up menu, select
Digidesign X-Form.
4 Select the desired preset setting from the De-
fault Settings pop-up menu.
5 Click OK.
AudioSuite Preview and Bypass are not
available with X-Form in Pro Tools 7.0
and 7.1.
TCE Plug-In option in Processing Preferences page
X-Form is not available with the TCE Trim
tool in Pro Tools 7.1.x and lower.
When using X-Form for the TCE Trim tool,
the default 2x Range is used for an edit
range of twice to half the duration of the
original audio. If you select a Default Set-
ting that uses either the 4x or 8x Range, the
Time Shift and Pitch Shift setting are con-
strained to the 2x Range limit of 50% to
200%.
Refer to the Pro Tools Reference Guide for
more information about the TCE Trim tool.