Vocal Bender / User Guide
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Introduction
Waves Vocal Bender is a quick and simple tool for manipulating vocals. It lets you alter the pitch and formants of
monophonic voice tracks with the option of modulating the controls. All of this is done in real time, which means that
you can make creative vocal effects as quickly as you can move your fingers.
Pitch
and
formants
are the main characteristics of the human voice. Pitch describes the most prominent tone, also
called the fundamental frequency. These frequencies are created by the vocal cords and can be translated to
musical notes. Formants are the resonant frequencies (or overtones) that define the timbre of the voice. In humans,
formants are influenced by the vocal tract, which includes the throat, vocal cords, nasal cavity and sinuses, the nose,
and, of course, the mouth. Formants are unique for each individual, so they enable us to distinguish one person’s
voice from another’s.
Vocal Bender offers many ways to alter and modulate its controls using three different kinds of modulators. You can
add modulation to your current setting on most controls, which lets you experiment with time-based manipulations on
the human voice and reach unique and creative results.
Vocal Bender is designed to process monophonic voice sources: signals that carry only a single voice at a time. A
vocalist singing into a microphone is an example of a monophonic signal, whereas a choir or a voice within a full mix
is a polyphonic signal. Since Vocal Bender is optimized for monophonic processing, inputting a polyphonic signal
may result in artifacts.
Vocal Bender has zero latency, so it is suitable for studio recording and live performances.
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