Reference Guide

901
Using V-Vocal (Producer and Studio only)
Mixing
• Formant control. The Pitch Follow knob increases or decreases the formant according to
pitch. The Shift knob increases or decreases the formant for the entire phrase.
• Pitch Correction
• Keyboard and Scale buttons. Assign the target notes with the Keyboard button; each key
has a Bypass button (B) located under or over the key. The Scale button lets you assign the
target notes by scale: click the Scale button, click Maj or Min, and click a note on the
Keyboard button to choose the root of the scale.
• Note button. Use this button to set the rate of pitch correction. This function can adjust the
pitch to the selected notes’ grids by increasing or decreasing the pitch of the selected region.
• Vibrato. Set the depth of the vibrato. If you choose 100%, vibrato depth is set to zero.
• Sense. This is a sensitivity control for pitch correction for unstable pitch areas such as
portamento. Pitch correction gets stronger if you increase the value.
• Cent indicator. This indicator shows the pitch correction amount by cents in realtime (+/- 100
cents).
• Timeline. This gives a graphical display of the playback time in beats.
• Select pitch correction key. Set the target notes for the pitch correction. Each time you click a
note, the note’s color is changed to red, grey, or blue in turn. Meaning of each color is as follows:
• Blue: selected
• Gray: not selected
• Red: Bypassed
• Arrow tool . For selecting the editing region, and for increasing or decreasing the pitch of
the selected region.
• Line tool . For drawing Pitch, Formant, and Dynamics with straight lines.
• Pen tool . For drawing Pitch, Formant, and Dynamics freehand.
• Vibrato/LFO tool . For adding and editing Vibrato or LFO at the selected region.
• Eraser . For resetting the selected region to its initial value.
• Hand tool . For scrolling the display. If you drag in the editing area while pressing the CTRL
key, you can zoom.
• Rectangle zoom . For selecting an area to zoom in to. Drag a border around the area you
want to zoom to. Overall area is displayed by double clicking.
See:
“Playing back V-Vocal clips” on page 902