Owner's Manual

Feature Reference

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Edit Mode

3: Throat Formant

• The • button (“Ctrl”) can be used to go directly to the throat formant

controller page (≥ Page 75), also available from the ELEMENT CON-

TROLLER directory. You can then return to the miscellaneous throat formant

page by pressing • (“Para”) again.

• An inverse “K”(˚) next to a value means that key scaling can be applied to

that parameter. Position the cursor at the appropriate parameter and then press

the ¶ button (“KSC”) to go directly to the key scaling page for that param-

eter. You can return to the throat formant parameter page by pressing the

] button.

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Pitch Tracking

≤ Fixed, KeyTrack.

Determines whether the throat formant pitch is fixed or tracks the notes played.

Element Miscellaneous

The throat formant is fixed at the pitch specified by the “Pitch”

parameter, below.

The pitch of the throat formant tracks the note(s) played, offset by the

amount specified by the “Pitch” parameter, below.

Fixed

KeyTrack

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Pitch

≤ 23.1 Hz … 48.0 kHz (when "Fixed" and "Intens"

≥

0).

≤ 11.4 Hz … 24.0 kHz (when "Fixed" and "Intens" < 0).

≤ -2.00oct … 1.98oct (when "KeyTrack").

When the “Pitch Tracking” parameter is set to “Fixed”, this parameter sets

the throat formant pitch to a specific frequency. When “Pitch Tracking” is set to

“KeyTrack”, however, this parameter determines how much the throat formant pitch is

offset from the pitch of the note played in octave units. In the latter case negative values

offset the throat formant pitch below the pitch of the note played, while positive values

offset the throat formant pitch above that of the note played.

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Amount

≤ -64 … 63.

Determines the amount of effect the throat formant sound has on the air velocity

within the instrument. Positive values increase the air velocity, thereby increasing the

throat formant effect. Minus values decrease the air velocity, producing a more subtle

throat formant effect.