User Manual

NEPTUNE PITCH ADJUSTER AND VOICE SYNTH
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Using the Formant function
When the Formant section is not active, the formants will move along with the pitched signal. On vocals this could
generate unnatural “gender change” effects, especially on heavily pitched voices. If this is not the desired effect, you
should activate the Formant section:
1. Activate the Formant function by clicking the Formant button.
2. Adjust the Formant shift with the Shift knob.
The Shift range is ±1 octave.
• The default 12 o’clock position means that the formants will be “locked” to the input signal and won’t move
with the shifted pitches.
Used on vocals this will give the impression of the same person singing at the adjusted pitches. (Refer to the pic-
ture in the “What are formants?” section for graphical examples of this particular Shift setting.)
• Turned further counter-clockwise, the formants will be “locked” to the input signal and displaced downwards
relative to the input signal.
Used on vocals this will give the impression of a more deep male character voice.
• Turned further clockwise, the formants will be “locked” to the input signal and displaced upwards relative to
the input signal.
Used on vocals this will give the impression of a more soprano/female/child character voice.
! Note that Voice Synth has its own separate “built-in” formant correction and is not affected by the Formant
section settings.
Using the Voice Synth
The Voice Synth function lets you use Neptune as a harmony processor to generate polyphonic voices out of a
monophonic input signal. The application is similar to how you would use a vocoder, such as the BV512 Vocoder, for
example. However, using the Voice Synth in Neptune will produce completely transparent and natural sounding har-
monies with pitches controlled from MIDI Note data.
1. Create a sequencer track for the Neptune device and select the Neptune track in the Track list.
2. Click the MIDI radio button to select “To Voice Synth” in the “MIDI” section. Also make sure the Voice Synth
volume slider is raised:
• When you sing through Neptune and hold down a note or a chord on your MIDI master keyboard, the output
pitch(es) will correspond to the held MIDI note(s).
• The Voice Synth harmonies will also respond to any Pitch Bend and Vibrato modulation.
! The parameters in the Pitch Adjust, Transpose and Formant sections are ignored by the Voice Synth.
q You can mix Pitched Signal with the Voice Synth signal in the Mixer section. If you only want the Voice Synth
sound, lower the Pitched Signal fader.