User Manual

NEPTUNE PITCH ADJUSTER AND VOICE SYNTH
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• Catch Zones cannot overlap each other. If the Catch Zone Size is increased so that adjacent zones touch each
other, they will stop expanding in that direction and meet “half ways”.
The Catch Zone size in the picture below is set to ±150 cents. As you can see, the Catch Zones for notes G and
A have “collided” and therefore met half ways in the center of the G# note. If the Catch Zone size should be in-
creased further, the G Catch Zone would expand only downwards and the A Catch Zone only upwards.
The Catch Zones for the selected notes D, G and A in a custom scale.
• If the Catch Zones should extend on either side of the 12-note keyboard range, they will “wrap around”.
In the picture below, notes C and G are selected in a custom scale. The Catch Zone Size is set to ±250 cents.
Since the Catch Zone for the C note extends also to the left outside the display, the Catch Zone “wraps around” vi-
sually and continues from the B note down to the A# note. Since the Scale is repeated downwards and upwards
for every octave, the result of this setting is that the Catch Zone for the C note will cover the B and A# notes in ev-
ery octave.
The Catch Zones for the selected notes C and G in a custom scale, with the C note Catch Zone “wrapped around” to cover also
notes B and A#.
Setting Correction Speed
The Correction Speed parameter controls how fast the Input Pitch should be adjusted to the Target Note. The range
is from Slow (knob turned fully counter-clockwise) to Fast (knob turned fully clock-wise).
• For a natural, transparent correction, a setting around the 12 o’clock position is ideal in most situations.
• A very fast correction speed will create almost a “stepped” correction.
This is the setting of choice for creating the infamous “robot voice” effect known from numerous radio hits.
• A slow correction speed will make the pitch correction almost unnoticeable during fast passages in the music.
This is because the correction won’t have time to set in before new incoming pitches are detected.