User Manual

NEPTUNE PITCH ADJUSTER AND VOICE SYNTH
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Basic settings for pitch correction
Proceed as follows to set up the panel parameters for pitch correction:
1. Set up the Neptune device as desired according to the descriptions in “Setting up for pitch processing”.
2. Make sure the “Pitch Adjust” button is activated and that the “Transpose” button is off.
• Whether the Formant button should be on or off depends on the situation.
For very small pitch corrections, you might want to leave this off; for more substantial pitch changes you will get
the most natural sound when this is activated.
3. Define the Input signal type by using the “Low Freq”, “Wide Vibrato” and “Live Mode” buttons:
• Activate “Low Freq” for low-frequency material such as a deep voice etc.
The “Low Freq” mode will make Neptune detect low frequency notes in a more precise way. Note that the latency
will become longer due to the fact that low frequencies have longer cycle times.
• If the input voice contains a lot of vibrato, it might be a good suggestion to activate the “Wide Vibrato” button.
If your input audio has a heavy vibrato, this can cause Neptune to detect the wrong pitches. The result can be wob-
bling notes, unwanted swoops and glides etc. Activating the Wide Vibrato button will make the pitch detection ig-
nore any vibrato in the input audio, eliminating the problems. Note however that the vibrato can still be retained in
the processed sound, by raising the Preserve Expression parameter (see “About the Preserve Expression param-
eter”).
• If you are going to use pitch correction by singing through Neptune in real-time, try activating the “Live Mode”
button.
This will reduce the latency of the pitch correction to a minimum, which might be preferable if you want to monitor
the corrected signal as you sing. Note, however, that the audio quality may be lower in Live Mode.