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VocalShift

A high quality vocal harmonizer from the company that invented the term, VocalShift is Eventide’s best offering yet for vocal focused effects. 3 voices with independent pitch and formant shifting, key/scale quantization, detune, delay lines and panning controls. The perfect tool for modern vocal production.

  • Mix: Wet/Dry mixer.

  • Root: Sets the root for the Scale parameter.

  • Scale: Set the Scale that determines the pitch shifted intervals.

  • Shift A/B/C: Pitch shift interval.

  • Formant A/B/C: Formant shift amount. Positive values will make the voice sound more chipmunky, negative values will make the voice sound more throaty. Leaving this control at 0 will preserve the formants and give a more natural sound when changing the Shift parameter.

  • Formant Link: Automatically stretches or compresses the vocal formants in proportion to the pitch shift interval. Positive values will make the voice sound more throaty when pitching down and more chipmunky when shifting up. Negative values invert this relationship. Larger positive or negative values produce a more pronounced effect. A value of 0 preserves the natural formants of the voice (they are unaltered).

  • Gain A/B/C: Voice level.

  • Delay A/B/C: Delay time in ms or Tempo Synced.

  • Feedback A/B/C: Feedback amount.

  • Pan A/B/C: Stereo position (-50: left, 0: center, 50: right).

  • Detune: Applies equal detuning up and down to Voice A & B from 0 to 50c. 0 to -50c applies opposite detuning.

  • Tuning Speed: Adjust the speed of pitch shifting from snappy, hard tuned quantization to more subtle pitch correction. Note that tuning speed is applied whether quantization is on/off, and is an important parameter to tuning how the algorithms processed the vocal signal. 0 to 500ms.

  • Quant On/Off: Quantize the input shift amount to values determined by the Root/Scale parameters. Can be used for natural pitch correction or popular quantized vocal shifting techniques.

  • Quant Error: Allows small pitch variations not to be quantized. Useful for vocals with vibrato when quantization is on. 0 to 50c.

  • Latency Mode: Low/High - Higher latency may result in improved performance with a tradeoff of more noticeable latency. The high latency setting is recommended when using extreme formant settings. Low introduces ~25ms of latency, while High introduces ~50ms of latency.

  • Glide A/B/C: Pitch shift interval for glide performance control.

  • Rise: Rise time for glide.

  • Fall: Fall time for glide.

  • Hold: Determines which voices are affected when the Hold Performance control is activated (see below).

Performance Parameters:

  • Root learn: Pressing the footswitch momentarily analyzes the note currently being sung, and updates the Root control (see above) accordingly.

  • Glide: Pitch shift to the glide interval.

  • Glide (M): Momentary pitch shift to the glide interval.

  • Hold (M): Momentary control. Holds the pitch of the selected voices at their current value (these voices are set in the Parameters menu). Hold is different from a “freeze” — the held voices will still follow your articulations like vibrato, volume, etc. Use Hold to create drones and/or breaks from parallel harmony.

  • Hold: Same as above, but latching.

VocalTune

A stripped down version of our VocalShift algorithm, designed for vocal correction and hard tune effects. An EQ and compressor round out this algorithm to give you all the tools you need to polish up a vocal track or cut through the mix in a live setting.

  • Root: Sets the root for the Scale parameter.

  • Scale: Set the Scale that determines the intervals that the vocals will be quantized to.

  • Tuning Reference: Set the reference point for the key/scale quantization.

  • Quant Error: Allows small pitch variations to not be quantized. Useful for vocals with vibrato when quantization is on. 0 to 50 c.

  • Formant: Shift the formants from -600 to 600 c without adjusting the pitch.

  • Tuning Speed: Adjust the speed of quantization from snappy, robotic sounding quantization to more subtle pitch correction. 0 to 500 ms.

  • Bass: Boost/Cut the bass frequencies from -18 to +12 dB.

  • Treble: Boost/Cute the treble frequencies -18 to +12 dB.

  • Threshold: Set the threshold of the compressor.

  • Ratio: Ratio of the compressor, ranging from 1:1 to 20:1.

  • Attack: Compressor attack time, 0.1 to 100 ms.

  • Release: Compressor release time, 1-1000 ms.

  • Gain: Compressor makeup gain, -16 to +12 dB.

  • Gate: Threshold of noise gate.