Reference Manual

348 Live Audio Effect Reference
This device consists of five parallel resonators that superimpose a tonal character on the input
source. It can produce sounds resembling anything from plucked strings to vocoder-like effects.
The resonators are tuned in semitones, providing a musical way of adjusting them. The first reso-
nator defines the root pitch and the four others are tuned relative to this pitch in musical intervals.
The input signal passes first through a filter, and then into the resonators. There are four input
filter types to select from: lowpass, bandpass, highpass and notch. The input filter frequency can
be adjusted with the Frequency parameter.
The first resonator is fed with both the left and right input channels, while the second and fourth
resonators are dedicated to the left channel, and the third and fifth to the right channel.
The Note parameter defines the root pitch of all the resonators ranging from C-1 to C5. It can
also be detuned in cents using the Fine parameter. The Decay parameter lets you adjust the
amount of time it takes for the resonators to be silent after getting an input signal. The longer
the decay time, the more tonal the result will be, similar to the behavior of an undamped piano
string. As with a real string, the decay time depends on the pitch, so low notes will last longer
than higher ones. The Const switch holds the decay time constant regardless of the actual pitch.
Resonators provides two different resonation modes. Mode A provides a more realistic sounding
resonation, while Mode B offers an effect that is especially interesting when Resonator I’s Note
parameter is set to lower pitches.
The brightness of the resulting sound can be adjusted using the Color control.
All of the resonators have an On/Off switch and a Gain control. A resonator that is turned off
does not need CPU. Turning off the first resonator does not affect the other ones.
Resonators II through V follow the Note parameter defined in Resonator I, but they can each be
individually transposed +/- 24 semitones using the Pitch controls and detuned in cents using the
Detune controls.
The output section features the obligatory Dry/Wet control and a Width parameter that affects
only the wet signal and blends the left and right outputs of Resonators II-V into a mono signal if
set to zero.