PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide V1.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 Table Of Contents Welcome To PITCHMAP 4 What is PITCHMAP? 4 System Requirements 5 Mac Requirements 5 Installation 6 Installation & Authorization Mac 6 Overview 7 Features At A Glance Applications and Usage Scenarios 7 8 Quick Start Tutorials Tutorial Tutorial Tutorial Tutorial Tutorial 9 A: Correcting Tuning Issues in Mixed Signals B: Removing Wrong Notes C: Changing the Key/Scale/Melody of a Recording using the GUI Macros.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 Downward Triangle Slider Head Upward Triangle Slider Head Key Transform Graphical Editor Settings Area Key Edit Modes Edit Mode Edit Mode: Repeat Edit Mode: Visible Edit Mode: Custom Process Options Area Natural Strict Xclude Round.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 Welcome To PITCHMAP What is PITCHMAP? PITCHMAP is the world’s first and only real-time, polyphonic pitch correction and pitch mapping plug-in. Need to correct pitch inaccuracies on one instrument in a full mix or a polyphonic recording? Want to change the key of an entire song and simultaneously go from minor to major 7/9 on the fly? PITCHMAP allows you to do all of that, and more.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 System Requirements Mac Requirements • • • • • • • Intel-based Apple Mac computer Minimum of 2 CPU cores running at 2.4 gHz or faster 1 GB of available RAM Mac OS X 10.6.x or newer 200 MB free Hard-Disk space Apple AudioUnits (AU) compatible host software Internet Connection for Activation (though not necessarily on the Computer used for audio) Note: this is an AudioUnits (AU) plug-in, and thus not compatible to Avid ProTools until we release an AAX version.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 Installation Installation & Authorization Mac Installing and authorizing PITCHMAP is very straight-forward. Simply mount the disk image file (.dmg) by double-clicking it in the Finder, and launch the installer contained on the resulting, auto-mounted Volume. Follow the on-screen instructions to install. To be able to use your new software, it needs to be activated.
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zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 Applications and Usage Scenarios PITCHMAP has quite a lot of uses. Here are a couple of them.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 Quick Start Tutorials Tutorial A: Correcting Tuning Issues in Mixed Signals Here’s a quick run-down on how to correct tuning issues in mixed signals. - Insert PITCHMAP into an effects slot of the audio track that needs pitch correction - Set Threshold to maximum, Feel, Purify & Electrify to 50%, Glide to 0%, Algorithm to Natural and Xclude Round. to Intelligent. - Lower Threshold until the desired amount of pitch correction is achieved.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 - If you feel that the results sound too much corrected, increasing the Feel parameter slightly can work wonders. - Conversely, if you’re not getting enough pitch correction, which may happen in rare circumstances, try reducing Feel, and/or checking Strict. - If you are hearing a lot of “tuning artifact pitch-jumps”, chances are that the signal is not tuned to A=440Hz. Try adjusting the Input Ref. Tuning slider to see wether this helps.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 - If there are parts of the signal that you wish to explicitly exclude form pitch correction, such as a vocal line with lots of performance detail, you may want to Bypass the relevant pitches. To do this, select the Key Edit Bypass mode and Bypass all notes you wish to remain unprocessed by clicking on the respective key of the Lower Keyboard. Note that the Edit modes Repeat/Visible/Custom apply (see the relevant section of this manual).
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 - Set Edit mode to Repeat and Key Edit to Bypass - Bypass all keys by clicking on 12 successive keys of the Lower Keyboard; they’ll turn green and you’ll hear your unprocessed signal. - Switch Edit mode to Custom and mute the offending notes by removing their Bypass (which routes them to the Mute Filters, hence, they’re muted).
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 Tutorial C: Changing the Key/Scale/Melody of a Recording using the GUI Macros. Here’s a quick run-down on how to change Key/Scale/Melody of a recording using a Pitch Map created using the Key Transform macros of the GUI as starting point.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 - First, set Edit mode to Repeat, then shift-click on the Pitch Mapping Slider heads once for each note of an octave. This will set al sliders to “nearest octave” mode. Alternately, you can try shift-clicking once more for “octave down” or twice more for “octave up” modes. - Next, move all sliders to the left or to the right using the Voicing Arrows.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 - Finally, fine-tune the pitch correction process to minimize unwanted artifacts. Raising the Threshold slightly may help preserving Drums and other Transient material better. Changing Xclude Round. Mode and adjusting Input Ref. Pitch can help minimize pitch jumping. Raising or lowering Feel can help getting coherent results, and Purify can be used to clean or dirty up the sound.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 - To adjust one slider at a time, select the Custom Edit mode. To adjust all sliders associated to the same pitch class across all octaves, select the Repeat mode, to restrict that to the three visible octaves, select Visible. - When in Custom mode, hold ALT/Option while dragging to temporarily enable Repeat mode. - To increase or decrease all slider values by one semitone at a time, click on the Up or Down Transpose Arrow, respectively.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 Tutorial E: Changing the Key/Scale/Melody of a Recording using MIDI Here’s a quick run-down on how to change Key/Scale/Melody of a recording using Live MIDI input. For Apple Logic Pro 9.x: - Insert PITCHMAP into a software instrument tracks instrument slot. You’ll find the plug-in in the category “AU MIDI-controlled Effects”. - Place the audio file to be processed on an audio track, and set the tracks output to “No Output”.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 - Activate MIDI MAP in the PITCHMAP GUI, and set Key Edit to Xclude. Also, Reset the sliders. - Select the Instrument track in the Arrangement view, the red “R” button on the track header should be lit up. - Start the playback, and play some MIDI notes. The results are influenced by Edit Repeat/Visible/Custom, the state of the sliders and the Xclude Round. Mode (see the relevant section of this manual). For Ableton Live Pro 8.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 - Activate MIDI MAP in the PITCHMAP GUI, and set Key Edit to Xclude. Also, Reset the sliders. - Start the playback, and play some MIDI notes. The results are influenced by Edit Repeat/Visible/Custom, the state of the sliders and the Xclude Round. Mode (see the relevant section of this manual).
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 Global Controls Bypass Bypasses any and all processing. The difference to the host’s bypass functionality is that when bypassing PITCHMAP internally, the Display remains active. Input Ref. Tuning This slider allows adjusting the input/source reference tuning, e.g. what the algorithm sees as being “in tune”. This value is in Hertz, representing the absolute frequency of what is considered as an A4 (typically 440.00 Hertz).
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 Snapshots The Snapshots allow saving different plug-in settings within one plug-in preset. One example for why this is useful would be when, for example, the verse and the chorus of a song to be processed require different settings because they are in different keys or very differently orchestrated. Using the Snapshot functionality, you can create one setting per song part and call these sample-accurately using host automation.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 Graphical Editor Area The Display The Display is your central source of information about your signal in PITCHMAP. Understanding it and the functionality it provides is essential to getting the most out of PITCHMAP. Basically, it displays 3 octaves of your input signal in a fashion similar to a spectrogram, flowing from bottom to top, with lower frequencies to the left and higher frequencies to the right.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 Mute Filters: Low-Cut And High-Cut Sliders Sounds outside the bounds defined by these sliders are either bypassed or muted, depending on the state of the Mute switch. Drag these to adjust the cut-off point. CTRL-Click anywhere on the Keyboard Thumbnail to reset these. When the Low-Cut slider is dragged to the right past the High-Cut slider, the range between the sliders is bypassed/muted, not the range outside of the sliders.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 A click on a key toggles the Bypass/Xclude state for that pitch, depending on whether Bypass or Xclude is selected in the Key Edit parameter. A Bypassed key will show green, an Xcluded key orange. Also, Repeat/Visible/Custom is respected. So, for example, if Repeat is on, a click on a key will toggle the state for that key in all octaves. CTRL-Clicking anywhere on the Lower Keyboard resets all states.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 Pitch Mapping Sliders These are the main GUI controls for mapping pitch. By dragging these up or down, you are mapping a source pitch (as shown by the Lower Keyboard) to a destination pitch (as shown by the Right Keyboard). Think of this like a routing matrix or patchbay, “this goes there”. Or you can think of a slider as a transpose/pitch-shift value that is available per source pitch. While dragging a slider, the relevant pitch is soloed.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 Key Transform Key Transform is a macro function that can be used to quickly create a Pitch Map based on a destination key/scale by setting all Pitch Mapping Sliders to specific values. Key Transform consists of two pull-down menus for selecting destination key and destination scale. The macro is applied on releasing either of the pull-down menus.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 Graphical Editor Settings Area Key Edit Modes The active Key Edit mode selects whether clicking on a key on the Lower Keyboard edits the Bypass or Xclude state of the corresponding pitch. When in MIDI MAP mode, selects wether MIDI notes are used to map the pitches (Xclude) or to un-mute a pitch (Bypass) Edit Mode The active Edit mode defines behavior when editing Mapping Sliders, Bypass/Xclude states via the Lower Keyboard and when using MIDI MAP.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 Process Options Area Natural When this parameter is active, the analysis engine will use a perceptive model to discern voice components in the input signal, and process these independently of other sounds. This can prevent a certain type of coloration when processing signals that are musically rather “busy” and contain voice. If you notice unexpected coloration of voice components when working on material that has vocals, try activating this.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 Process Parameter Area The Process: How We Do The Magic MAP: Mixed-Signal Audio Processing PITCHMAP is based on our proprietary MAP technology, which in turn is based on a model of the human auditory system. PITCHMAP “hears” your signal, and discerns the contained sounds much like a human would. It then de-mixes your signal, and applies processing to each sound component separately.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 Purify Purify adjusts the amount of noise components. Values higher than the default 50% reduce noise components and introduce an effect reminiscent of resonance, values below 50% increase the the level of noisy components. Can be used to deliberately create a surreal sound or to bring focus to transients and other non-harmonic aspects of the signal. Glide Glide adjusts the length of polyphonic glide/portamento to be applied.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 Electrify Electrify can be used both to introduce a very unique, electric synthetic coloration and to optimize the process to your signal. The default value is 50%, which is neutral. High values make results sound electric, low values can actually improve processing quality but may introduce unexpected harmonics when working with sparse recordings. Values around 60-75% can work well to improve results when working with mixed vocal stems.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 Performance Optimization Sound Optimization Here are a couple of tips on how to fine-tune the PITCHMAP parameters for best results. • • • • • • • • • • Increasing the Threshold parameter can help preserving drum transients Also, decreasing Purify below the default 50% can improve transient preservation If you’re seeing a lot of “pitch jumping”, try adjusting the Input Ref. Tuning and the Xclude Round.
zynaptiq PITCHMAP Quick Start Guide v 1.0 transient detail. This can be counter-acted to some degree by setting Purify below 50%. As an alternative, if this approach doesn’t work well, try raising Purify above 50% (without using Strict mode). Yet another approach is to first Xclude all pitches that aren’t supposed to be there in the first place, then slowly increase Electrify (a value around 70% is usually good for acoustic guitars) and adjusting Purify and setting Strict to taste.
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