Pitch Page

Overview

Pitch

Determines the pitch of the sound.

Pitch Key Follow

Allows you to adjust the pitch modulation based on the MIDI note number. With this parameter set to a positive value, the higher you play, the more the pitch is raised. With the parameter set to a negative value, the higher you play, the lower the pitch. At a setting of +100%, the pitch follows the played note exactly.

Center Key

Specifies the MIDI note that is used as the central position for the Pitch Key Follow function.

Pitch Envelope Amount

Determines how much the pitch is affected by the pitch envelope. For example, if this parameter is set to 12, an envelope node can raise/lower the pitch by one octave.

Level Velocity

Determines how the velocity affects the level of the envelope.

The level of the envelope depends on two factors: the setting of this parameter and how hard you hit a key. With positive values, the harder you hit a key, the higher the level of the envelope. With negative values, the harder you hit a key, the lower the level of the envelope.

Time Scale

Allows you to lengthen/shorten the overall envelope time.

This way, you do not have to edit each individual time segment to shorten or lengthen the envelope.

Time Scale is available as a modulation destination, which means that you can use a modulation source, such as Velocity or MIDI controller, for example, to control the overall envelope time.

Time Key Follow

Determines how the total envelope time is affected by the note played.

• If this is set to 0, the envelope time does not change, regardless of the note played.

• With values above 0, high notes result in a shorter, and low notes in a longer envelope time.

Time Velocity

Adjusts the influence of velocity on the phases of the envelope. Positive values decrease the length of the phases for higher velocity values. Negative values increase the length of the phases for higher velocity values.

Maximized View

In the maximized view, you can set up the pitch envelope to modulate the pitch over time.

Envelope Mode

• Select Sustain to play the envelope from the first node to the sustain node. The sustain level is held for as long as you play the note. When you release the note, the envelope continues with the stages following the sustain. This mode is ideal for looped samples.

• Select Loop to play back the envelope from the first node to the loop nodes. As a result, the loop is repeated for as long as you hold the key. When you release the note, the envelope continues playing the stages that follow the sustain. This mode is ideal for adding motion to the sustain of the envelope.

• Select One Shot to play the envelope from the first to the last node, even if you release the key. The envelope has no sustain stage. This mode is ideal for drum samples.

• Select Sample Loop to preserve the natural attack of the sample. The decay of the envelope does not start until the sample has reached the sample loop start.

  If you set the second node to the maximum level and use the subsequent nodes to shape the decay during the loop phase of the sample, the envelope only affects the loop phase. The attack of the envelope is still executed.

• Select Shaper to use the envelope as a modulator that allows you to create freely programmable cyclic modulations. To ensure a seamless cycle, the start and end node levels are linked.

  • The Pitch and Filter envelopes continue to be played in a loop after releasing notes, which makes it possible to use the modulation in the Release phase of a note.

  • The Amp envelope immediately stops playing when notes are released.

    Note

    The end node of the Amp envelope does not need to have a level of zero. However, when switching from Shaper mode to another mode, the end node level is set back to zero.

Edit

Allows you to edit single or multiple nodes.

Erase

Allows you to delete envelope nodes.

Draw

Allows you to insert a predefined envelope shape.

You can enter shapes by clicking or by clicking and dragging.

• Click once on the envelope display to insert the selected shape with its predefined length.

  If Sync to Host is activated, the shape is inserted at the nearest grid position. If you repeatedly click at the same position, the shape is inserted multiple times.

• Click and drag to insert the shape in the covered drag area. If Sync to Host is activated, the start and the end nodes of the shape snap to the grid, and all nodes in between are scaled relative to the overall length of the shape.

  After the shape is inserted, all nodes remain selected. This allows you to switch back to the Edit tool for further editing of the shape.

With Fixed Mode activated, the inserted nodes replace all nodes that cover the current time range. With Fixed Mode deactivated, all consecutive nodes are moved to the right.

Paint

Allows you to paint in a predefined envelope shape. The shape is inserted with its predefined length.

If Sync to Host is activated, the length is quantized to the grid. The level of the shape is determined by the vertical mouse position. This allows you to draw perfectly tempo-synchronized, sequential shapes with an added overall level progression.

Select Shape

Allows you to select the shape that is used when entering nodes with the Draw or the Paint tool. A shape consists of multiple nodes making up a progression that can be used when creating your envelopes. The predefined factory shapes are available via the Factory tab. You can also create your own shapes and add them to the User tab. Up to 48 shapes are available per tab.

Save Shape

Allows you to save the current envelope shape as a user shape. You can add up to 48 user shapes.

Sync to Host Tempo

Allows you to synchronize the envelopes to the tempo of your host application.

Bipolar

The Amp and Filter envelopes are unipolar. This means that their value range for the level is 0% to +100%, and you can enter positive values only. The Pitch and User envelopes are bipolar. Their value range for the level is -100% to +100%, which allows you to enter negative and positive values for these envelopes.

• With Bipolar activated, you can use both positive and negative values.

• With Bipolar deactivated, the envelope is unipolar and exclusively uses positive values.

Fixed Mode

• With Fixed Mode activated, only the selected nodes are moved when you move a node on the time axis.

• With Fixed Mode deactivated, all subsequent nodes are moved as well when you move a node.

Show Waveform

Shows the sample waveform in the envelope editor.

Snap

If Snap is activated and you change the position of nodes, they snap to the nodes of the guide envelope that is shown in the background.

Guide Envelope

From this pop-up menu, you can select a second envelope to be displayed in the background of the edited envelope.

• If Snap is activated when you move nodes, they snap to the guide envelope.

Env Node

Displays the active envelope node. To select a node, enter its number in the field. To step through the nodes, use the Previous Node/Next Node buttons.

Time

Specifies the period of time between two nodes. Depending on the Sync mode, the Time parameter is displayed in milliseconds and seconds, or in fractions of beats.

Note

The fraction is always reduced to the smallest possible value. 2/16 is displayed as 1/8, for example.

Pitch

The pitch of the active node. To change the pitch, enter a new value in the field, or use the mouse wheel.

Curve

Allows you to adjust the curvature between two nodes from linear to logarithmic or exponential behavior.