Spectral effects guide

Table of contents

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Pitch processors

There's a lot you can do with pitch. Usually you need to use monophonic audio materials, so that the plugins can detect the pitch accurately.

• MUnison is a unique unison and smart harmonizer. It can create up to 50 voices and let them either play the same note as the original to get the big unison sound, or even choose harmonies intelligently, in the selected scale.
• MHarmonizerMB is an extremely versatile pitch shifter and harmonizer, which implements several pitch shifting algorithms. Unlike MUnison it does not generate harmonies automatically, instead it lets you control what the plugin plays.
• MAutoPitch is a powerful automatic tuner, capable of everything from natural tuning to the famous Cher voice.
• MTuner is a simple tuner, useful for guitars, bass and other instruments.

Enhancers

Spectral domain processing lets us analyze the contents of the audio material directly and change it in some way. A classic purpose of saturation is to create higher harmonics to enrich the signal. The problem is that saturation (and any other distortion) produces not only the harmonics, but also lots of different unrelated frequencies, which cause the "distorted" sound. In spectral domain processing we can create only what we want and that's what the following tools do.

• MCharacter can control any harmonic of your audio material and can even resynthesise frequencies that are not there. As it needs to be able to detect the pitch it works on monophonic audio signals.
• MPolySaturator is a spectral equivalent of saturation. It lets you synthesize higher harmonics for all frequencies in your signal but unlike MCharacter it works on virtually any audio material.

Creative effects

Some things are so awesome that they are hard to describe and you should try them for yourself!