User Manual

Formant Controls
Formant Preservation
Enabled by default, this option preserves the original formants of your captured
vocals, allowing pitch to be corrected while retaining the original character of
the performer’s timbre. When this option is enabled, you also have the ability to
fine-tune formants using the Formant Shift and Global Formant Scaling controls
for each Note Region.
Formant Shift (semitones)
This control allows you to adjust the vocal formants of your captured vocal audio.
While in many cases this can be left at 0 in order to preserve the formants as they
were originally recorded, adjusting this parameter can aid in finding more natural
results when performing larger pitch shifts beyond a few notes in a given dir-
ection.
Global Formant Scaling
Nectar's Pitch Correction algorithm will preserve the formants of your incoming
vocal takes exactly as they were recorded. These formants are what give the
voice its timbre and are very important in keeping your vocals sounding as nat-
ural as possible when pitch shifting.
However, it can be desirable to shift the formants slightly in the direction of the
desired pitch shift, as this corresponds to what humans naturally do. When sing-
ers sing a higher note, our vocal formants also shift slightly higher. Global For-
mant Scaling can sometimes help achieve more natural results when necessary.