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SIGNAL FLOW

ANALOG

INPUTS

[balanced]

In Level

ANALOG

OUTPUTS

[balanced]

A/D

INPUT PPM

Left

Bypass

Right

Input

Selector

Digital Output

[AES]

Digital Input

[AES]

AES/EBU

S/PDIF

Digital Output

[S/PDIF]

Digital Input

[S/PDIF]

Dither

D/A

PITCH

CORRECTION

DE-

ESSER

ADAPTIVE

LOW CUT

Digital Input

[Tos/ADAT]

ADAT

Tos

[Tos/ADAT]

DELAY

Opto

Opto

Right

Left

ANALOG

INPUTS

[balanced]

In Level

ANALOG

OUTPUTS

[balanced]

A/D

INPUT PPM

Left

Bypass

Right

Left

Right

Input

Selector

Digital Output

[AES]

Digital Input

[AES]

AES/EBU

S/PDIF

Digital Output

[S/PDIF]

Digital Input

[S/PDIF]

Dither

D/A

PITCH

CORRECTION

DE-

ESSER

LOW CUT

Digital Input

[Tos/ADAT]

ADAT

Tos

[Tos/ADAT]

Opto

Opto

Normal Mode

Dual Mode

Summary of Contents for INTONATOR

Page 1: ...INTONATOR VOCAL INTONATION PROCESSOR English USER S MANUAL ...

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Page 3: ...uipment should be installed near the socket outlet and disconnection of the device should be easily accessible To completely disconnect from AC mains disconnect the power supply cord from the AC receptable The mains plug of the power supply shall remain readily operable Do not install in a confined space Do not open the unit risk of electric shock inside Caution You are cautioned that any change o...

Page 4: ...igital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in residential installations This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interfe...

Page 5: ...nel Reset 20 MIDI CONTINUOUS CONTROLLERS Overview 21 Scale selection 21 Pitch Window 21 Attack Control 22 Amount 22 Manual Mode 23 Note Hold 23 Pitch Bypass 24 Adaptive Low Cut key 24 Adaptive Low Cut Filter 24 De ess key 24 De ess Control 24 Correction Amount 24 Tuning Reference Adjustment 25 Custom Scale Notes 25 Input Pitch 25 Manual Pitch Bend 25 Keyboard Notes 25 APPENDIX MIDI Implementation ...

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Page 7: ...es often kills the initial energy and fresh feeling Keep the good track and use the Intonator to correct the few out of pitch notes there might be Another example is the situation where repeated tracking is unavoidable while striving for the perfect vocal take The result is an exhausted vocalist So the timing and phrasing might be perfected after several takes but as the vocalist gets tired one of...

Page 8: ...rrent key and displays Input Pitch in Chromatic and Manual modes When in Setup mode this area indicates current page number PITCH CORRECTION DISPLAY In Scale mode the amount of pitch correction applied is displayed In Setup mode various parameters are displayed Input Source Clock Source Dither MIDI Master Tune etc KEYBOARD Shows Current scale tones Current Input pitch Gives Tuning notes Custom sca...

Page 9: ...MOUNT CONTROL Controls how much of the automatic correction is used This control is intelligently scaled giving you greater correction the more the Input note is out of pitch SCALE SETUP SCALE SETUP KEY Toggles between Scale selection and Setup pages The Setup pages automatically exit to Scale after approx 6 seconds ALPHA DIAL ENTER KEY Changes values according to SCALE SETUP key When pushed this ...

Page 10: ...DIGITAL DEVICE MEETS ALL REQUIREMENTS OF THE CANADIAN INTERFERENCE CAUSING EQUIPMENT REGULATIONS AND COMPLIES WITH PART 15 OF THE FCC RULES OPERATION SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS STATED IN THE MANUAL DI DO ADAT or S PDIF 4 688 464 U S Patent Main Power Switch Power Input Balanced XLR Analog Inputs Balanced XLR Analog Outputs Serial no Digital In Out AES EBU S PDIF Tos Wordclock RCA MIDI In Thru Out Pin 2...

Page 11: ...CORRECTION DE ESSER ADAPTIVE LOW CUT Digital Input Tos ADAT ADAT Tos Tos ADAT DELAY Opto Opto Right Left ANALOG INPUTS balanced In Level ANALOG OUTPUTS balanced A D INPUT PPM Left Bypass Right Left Right Input Selector Digital Output AES Digital Input AES AES EBU S PDIF Digital Output S PDIF Digital Input S PDIF Dither D A PITCH CORRECTION DE ESSER LOW CUT Digital Input Tos ADAT ADAT Tos Tos ADAT ...

Page 12: ...ected pitch information converted into MIDI 6 Use a timecode connection e g SMPTE or MIDI to keep the sequencer in sync with the ADAT Use this setup to record the uncorrected Input pitch and or the corrected Input pitch converted into MIDI pitch bend information for later editing Setup for direct pitch correction during vocal tracking 1 Connect your vocal Output to the Intonator Input 2 Connect th...

Page 13: ...ers to the Sync In ADAT When ADAT is selected Sync will automatically switch to Ext Clock If no valid clock is present the DIGITAL LOCK LED will blink When clock is accomplished the DIGITAL LOCK LED will turn solid Sync can be forced to follow one of the available internal Clock Rates or the Wordclock Input The Digital Lock LED then refers to the Wordclock Input Note ADAT Inputs are not available ...

Page 14: ...d Range Page 10 Select between different ranges for the front panel MANUAL PITCH bender Select range 50 cents or 200 cents Routing Page 11 There are two Routing modes to choose from Normal Pitch and Dynamics on selected Input channel Dual Pitch and Dynamics on separate Input channels Since the material you often would like to process with the Intonator is mono i e single vocals we found that split...

Page 15: ...h Window was set to less than 90 cents the Input note would be outside the target note the pitch window and there would be no indication of Input pitch When the unit is set to use the Chromatic or Custom scales the Key Pitch display will show nothing When using Manual mode the Key Pitch Display will show Input pitch This allows the unit to double as a tuner Pitch Correction Display The applied cor...

Page 16: ...ass on Bypass off is performed according to the Attack setting and will therefore be as smooth as specified by the Attack setting Window The Window control adjusts a window around the target pitch The Input is only corrected to the target pitch when the pitch is within the window The range of operation is 200 cents Full counter clockwise position is 0 cents while full clockwise position is 200 cen...

Page 17: ...CTION PROCESSING AMOUNT 200 180 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 200 180 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 MIDI 127 Rel 6 MIDI 64 Rel 3 MIDI 0 Rel 0 MIDI 10 MIDI 25 Amount Control Out of Tune Amount Correction Amount ...

Page 18: ...derably higher This could be a vocal track where the singer is breathing close to the microphone But it could also simply be an annoying 50Hz hum from poorly shielded cables Situations like these will disturb the tightness of the low frequency area and to solve that problem you will use a Low Cut filter The Adaptive Low Cut filter in the Intonator allows you to set the Threshold frequency relative...

Page 19: ...ouched Creating a Custom scale from Automatic mode is best for specific note correction Solution Make sure you know the notes you want to correct In this case F G and C Make all appropriate connections to hook up the Intonator Select custom scale by pushing the ALPHA dial Use the NOTE keys to create a scale containing only the notes F G and C Evaluate how far out of tune the singer is on the three...

Page 20: ...AL ON LED will be lit In this mode you can manually force the Input to a specific note This can be done in several ways Either by pressing the relevant NOTE key on the keyboard or by activating the NOTE key via MIDI or by using the Manual Pitch knob When the key is pressed or activated via MIDI the key LED will be lit This is a nice feature especially when remote controlling the Intonator via MIDI...

Page 21: ...he Input pitch you can see what note the singer is singing wrong When that note is sung push the desired note you want the singer to sing The Input pitch will only be corrected to the desired note if it falls within the Window setting So make sure you set the Window control to include the note you want to correct to You can also adjust the ATTACK and AMOUNT controls to make the entry of the correc...

Page 22: ...is supplied to the MIDI units allowing perfect processing performance from bar 1 without setup clicks etc This goes for all MIDI instruments Example 2 Utilizing Automatic mode The track is recorded to best ability within the timeframe decided for this track During mixing it becomes obvious that pitch correction is needed Automatic mode is your first choice Of course Automatic mode will often do th...

Page 23: ... 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Pitch Window Window value 0 0 1 2 2 4 3 5 4 7 5 9 7 1 8 2 9 4 10 6 11 8 12 9 14 1 15 3 16 5 17 6 18 8 20 0 21 2 22 4 23 5 24 7 25 9 27 1 28 2 Scale Selection When pressing one of the SCALE keys a cc message will be sent When receiving a message via MIDI it will be interpreted as if a key on the Front panel had been pressed Parameter Data Range Scale Selection Pitch Window ...

Page 24: ...0 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 22 MIDI CONTINUOUS CONTROLLERS Parameter Data Range cc 22 0 127 0 instantaneous 127 very slow Attack Control Amount Window value MIDI value Parameter MIDI value cc 21 Window value Amount value MIDI value 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46...

Page 25: ... Amount value MIDI value Amount value MIDI value 103 1 104 4 105 7 107 1 108 4 109 8 111 1 112 5 113 9 115 4 116 8 118 3 119 7 121 2 122 8 124 3 125 9 127 4 129 0 130 6 132 3 133 9 135 6 137 3 139 0 140 8 142 5 144 3 146 1 148 0 149 8 151 7 153 6 155 5 157 5 159 4 161 4 163 5 165 5 167 6 169 7 171 8 174 0 176 1 178 3 180 6 182 8 185 1 187 4 189 8 192 2 194 6 197 0 199 5 202 0 204 5 207 1 209 7 212...

Page 26: ...ntrol Parameter Data Range cc 19 MSB cc 51 LSB 0 3FFFh MSB LSB 00 00h 200 cents 40 00h 0 cents 7F 7Fh 200 cents Correction Amount The unit will send this message but not respond to it This will be used by the PC program for display purposes The Pitch Bypass key is a toggle type switch The message that is sent out is dependent on the current state If Pitch Bypass is on a button press turns off Pitc...

Page 27: ...ity is a default 0x7F The unit will respond to any note message with any velocity except 0 of course The response of the unit to note ons and note offs is dependent on the mode In Automatic mode the unit only responds to note ons In Manual mode it will respond to both note ons and note offs Parameter Data Range cc 18 MSB cc 50 LSB MSB 0nnopqrsB nn reserved o 1 C note on p 1 C Db note on q 1 D note...

Page 28: ...X X Velocity Note ON X X Note OFF X X After Touch Key s X X Ch s X X Pitch Bend O O Control Change O O Prog Change X X True System Exclusive X X Common Song Pos X X Song Sel X X Tune X X System real time Clock X X Commands X X Aux Messages Local ON OFF X X All Notes OFF X X Active Sense X X Reset X X Notes Tuning Reference O O O YES Mode 1 OMNI ON POLY Mode 2 OMNI ON MONO X NO Mode 3 OMNI OFF POLY...

Page 29: ...ms DC to 23 9 kHz 0 01 dB 48 kHz DC to 47 9 kHz 0 01 dB 96 kHz XLR balanced pin 2 hot 20 kohm 22 dBu balanced 10 dBu 12 dB headroom 22 dBu to 10 dBu 24 bit 6 144 MHz delta sigma 48 96 kHz 0 8 ms 48 kHz 0 4 ms 96 kHz 103 dB unweighted BW 22 kHz 106 dB A 95 dB 0 0018 1 kHz 6 dBFS FS 16 dBu 10 Hz to 20 kHz 0 0 2 dB 48 kHz 10 Hz to 45 kHz 0 1 dB 96 kHz 80 dB 10 Hz to 20 kHz typical 100 dB 1 kHz XLR ba...

Page 30: ...test Connect a balanced cable from the Intonator AES EBU Input directly to the Intonator AES EBU Output Push the ALPHA dial knob to start the test The display will show whether the Input Output is OK or NOT OK The Signal and Peak LEDs are lit to show signal at the Input S PDIF I O test Connect a RCA cable from the Intonator S PDIF Input directly to the Intonator S PDIF Output Push the ALPHA dial k...

Page 31: ...ECTOR 5POLE MALE 45 degrees max 10m SHIELDED CABLE 3 or 5 wires screen Sleeve Pin 1 Ground Tip Pin 2 Hot Ring Pin 3 Cold Pin 1 Pin 1 Ground Pin 2 Pin 2 Hot Pin 3 Pin 3 Cold Sleeve Pin 1 Ground Tip Pin 2 Hot Sleeve Pin 3 Cold XLR XLR Jack unbalanced XLR Jack balanced XLR TIP RING GND TIP GND ...

Page 32: ...ial Dither Going from one type of bit resolution to a lower e g from 24 bit to16 bit you actually loose 8 bits of information The process of cutting off bits is called truncation and it introduces digital distortion of low level signals due to the lack of complete signal information To compensate for this dither must be applied Dither is a small amount of filtered noise that generates randomizatio...

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