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Hybr (Hybrid Amount).This works only when the pitch
of the modeled voice is shifted.Typically, there are two
types of pitch shift techniques:
o Formant corrected and;
o “Instrumental”
shifting.
Applying a pitch shift using Formant correction better
preserves natural humanlike sound when the pitch is
shifted. Instrumental shifting does no such thing which
results in the famous Chipmunk/Darth Vader effects
common to special effects and old generation pitch
shifting products. The Hybrid Amount parameter
allows you to define midpoints between these two
techniques for finer control of timbre.
The Auto setting is full formant correction.The values
from 0 (full Instrumental shifting) to 100 (closest to
Auto) give you fine control.
S2: Portamento Time and Smoothing
Porta (Portamento Time) slows pitch response as you
sing up and down through a melody. It is useful for
making a modeled harmony voice sound more like you
are singing with another person. This is because your
dry melody and the harmony are slightly out of pitch
synchronization at lower values and wildly out of sync
at high values.The number value is roughly the time it
takes to glide between two pitches.
Smooth (Smoothing).At low or zero values, Smoothing
acts like a pitch corrector on the shifted voice.As you
sing up and down through your melody, note-to-note
transitions become stepped and the pitches are
corrected even as your dry voice dips above and below
pitch. With low smoothing values it’s often useful to
add Portamento to soften the note attacks while the
Smoothing keeps them in tune.
As you progress through higher Smoothing values,
generally above 60 or 70, the hard note transitions
become softer.
Smoothing and Portamento apply to all shift modes
including MIDI note-derived pitch shifting
S3: Unvoiced Attenuation
The UVAtn (Unvoiced Attenuation) reduces “Ess” type
sounds to improve pitch shifting artifacts that occur
when pitch shifting over larger intervals.
Mixing - menus MV and DV
It is possible to vary the blend between the modeled
voice and your dry voice with the parameters in these
two menus.
MV: Model Level
Model Level is the volume of the modeled voice. A
value of 0dB is full volume.
Pan allows you to place your modeled voice where you
would like in the left, right or in the middle of your
stereo spectrum.
DV: Dry Voice Level
Dry Level (Dry Voice Level) controls the volume of
your completely unaffected voice. In VoiceWorksPlus-
modeling presets, the “Dry” voice is your singing voice
with no other effects processing. You would raise the
level of your dry voice to create a harmony or duet
perfomance in tandem with your modeled voice.
Pan places your dry voice left or right in the stereo
field.
LEAD VOICE MODEL EDITING