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SINGTHING User Manual
6.3 Reverb
Reverb means that we make your voice sound like it’s bouncing around a room.
You can choose to have yourself in all kinds of simulated spaces, from a cozy
library to a large arena. As the size and composition of the simulated room
changes, it gives your voice a sense of depth, space, and distance. It’s a bit like
virtual reality for your voice!
Reverb has three adjustable parameters: style, level, and decay.
Style
What kind of room would you like to use for your performance? Get stylish with
it. The Style parameter determines the size of the simulated space and type of
simulated material used to create the space.
There are 28 styles to choose from:
1. Smooth Plate
2. Reflection Plate
3. Thin Plate
4. Bright Plate
5. Real Plate
6. Real Plate Long
7. Jazz Plate
8. Quick Plate
9. Soft Hall
10. Amsterdam Hall
11. Broadway Hall
12. Snappy Room
13. Library
14. Dark Room
15. Music Club
16. Studio Room
17. Bouncy Room
18. Cozy Corner
19. Bright Chamber
20. Wooden Chamber
21. St. Joseph Church
22. Dome Chapel
23. Hockey Arena
24. Museum
25. Indoor Arena
26. Warehouse
27. Thin Spring
28. Full Spring
Level
Use this control to have more or less reverb in your life.
Decay
Reverb decay is the time it takes for the reverb to fade out. You can choose
anywhere from 10 milliseconds, which is barely audible, to 20 seconds of decay.
Longer decay times generally sound like large spaces, while shorter times sound
like small spaces. Each Style has its own decay time, but you can adjust each one
to suit your needs.
6.4 SFX
You’ve reached the Special Effects (SFX) department of the SingThing operation.
Your call is important to us. Please listen carefully as our menu options have
changed. SFX provides a range of transducer (simulated loudspeaker) effects
to put some distortion and heavy filtering on your voice, and sci-fi-inspired
oscillator effects to send your voice into outer space. You can adjust the Drive and
Filter on the transducer effects and the Level and Speed on the oscillator effects.
Style
When you finally decide that you don’t want to be an alien all the time, you can
choose from any of these exciting styles. There are five transducer styles and six
oscillator styles:
1. Transducer
2. Megaphone
3. Radio
4. Overdrive
5. Combo
6. Oscillator
7. Fast Rotor
8. Flanger
9. Auto Wah
10. Cylon Mono
11. Alien Voiceover
Drive
You can increase the level of distortion on the transducer effects with this setting.
As you increase the level towards 100, your voice gets increasingly fuzzy and
harsh.
Filter
This sets the filter level.
Level
This parameter increases the level of the oscillator effects. If you could have
more alien voice in your life, you’d have that, right? This is how you add more
alien voice.
Speed
While Reverb adds a sense of spaciousness to your voice, our oscillator SFX adds
a sense of wobbliness. Speed control changes the frequency of the wobble; it’s
measured in Hertz (Hz), which means the number of wobbles per second. Choose
from a lethargic 0.05 Hz, 20 seconds to complete a single wobble, all the way up
to an invading squadron of UFOs at 10 Hz or 10 wobbles per second.
6.5 Pitch
The Pitch effect tunes your voice so that it matches the notes in a regular 12 note
scale more precisely. You can use the Pitch effect to sound more like a robot or
techno-pop star, and to change the perceived gender of your voice. Pitch has
three parameters: style, shift, and gender.
Style
Use the Styles to give your voice a bit of that modern pop sheen, or tune it up to
sound extremely processed and robotic. There are seven styles to choose from:
1. Pop
2. Country Gliss
3. Robot
4. Correct Natural
5. Correct Chromatic
6. Drone
7. Gender Bender
The Correct Natural and Correct Chromatic styles will use either the Global Key or
Harmony Key to pitch-correct your voice to the appropriate note.
Shift
Use the Shift feature to push your voice up or down by up to 36 semitones.
When you’re on the Robot style, the Shift feature lets you pick the note for your
robot voice.
