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Note: When pitching down, GAP mode is not recommended as it requires
many voices, resulting in possible difference between realtime and bounce
due to the way the voice limit in relectro works.
Next comes the PITCH parameter, which allows some semitone accurate
pitching of the audio material within an +- 12.00 semitones range. One has
to keep in mind that this is no pitch shifter like you find it in a DAW or
dedicated pitch shifter plugin, its just a on a per-wave-cycle basis faster or
slower playback of every single wave-cycle. This per-wave-cycle operation
is good for not changing the length of the audio material while pitch shifting,
however, it delivers no accurate high quality pitch shifting but an effect
sound. But thats the intention after all, relectro should give you some new
effects at hand, not something that already exists.
Next comes the FIX slider, which does adjust a unique effect: Having it all
way down it does just nothing, having it all way up does completely fix
every single wave-cycle to the very same length (that means: a fixed pitch).
We could have made this a switch, but this way you have more flexibility in
creating unusual sounds by setting up a partial fixing (thus effectively
applying a different scale, but forget about theory, just try it).
Next to the FIX slider is the NOTE slider which defined to which note the
frequency of the audio material should be fixed. So while with FIX you
determine how much the frequency should be fixed, with note you
determine the actual frequency.
Note: The difference between PITCH and FIX/NOTE is that with PITCH you
change the frequency of the audio material relative to its original frequency,
while with FIX/NOTE you set it to a predetermined pitch, no matter what
pitch the audio material is at.
The final three slider in the pitch section still belong to the FIX parameter
and are for pitch tracking effects. Lets assume you have turned FIX all the
way up, so each wave-cycle has the same length and thus frequency. With
track you can make the frequency to which the audio gets fixed move along
the frequency of the audio material. Wait, isn’t that contrary to what we
aimed for with FIX ? Somewhat it looks so, but its not, because with the
SPEED parameter you set up how quickly it follows the audio materials
original frequency. So, in other words, TRACK and SPEED behave like a
portamento/glide section of a synthesizer (TRACK would be kind of glide
amount and SPEED is glide speed).
Note: Its best to try these three controls: load relectro with the default
preset Z_Default, set FIX to its maximum value, feed in some audio, maybe
a not too complicated drum loop and play with TRACK an SPEED controls
for a few minutes.
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