Mu Technologies Mu Voice Vocal Plug-In
The Mu Voice plug-in from Mu Technologies tunes your vocal recordings, applies special effects, and adds natural-sounding harmonies to your tracks when you're mixing. The proprietary spectral analysis and synthesis techniques of Mu Technologies provide a unique vocal processing tool for your recording studio. An internal delay of only 5.8ms makes Mu Voice an ideal vocal processor to perform live on stage.Intelligent Harmonizing Mu Voice has an intelligent harmonizer that takes the musical context of a piece into account, such as chord and scale information. A 4-track mixer allows you to configure the voicing (1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th voice) and octave for each channel. Scale/Chord Selection The chord panel offers a straightforward interface to select chords. When a given key signature is selected, the diatonic series of chords is displayed. By clicking the chords and modifiers, a chord is selected for harmonization. Chord Scheme Editing Chords can be added to a scheme by pressing the Insert button or double clicking them. By clicking an item in the scheme one can navigate through a chord scheme. Mixer The mixer combines all four tracks and allows you to mute certain channels with the M-button. The first channel can be put in bypass (via the B-button). A pitch shift slider adds an extra interval to the channel. The range of the shift slider is expressed in half tones which can be quantized by pressing the Q-button. Tuner Mu Voice comes with a built-in tuner that has a parametric impact (0: no impact, 1: full impact). The tuner has two modes: •Chromatic - tune to the closest half note. •Scale - tune to the closest note in the current scale.Channel FX: In addition to the voicing configurator, gain control, and pitch shifter, each track has an additional set of FX: •Pan: To obtain a realistic spatial positioning, the panner uses interaural delays and an interaural gains that are based on psychoacoustic measurements. The panning parameter corresponds with the angle relative to the listeners nose. •Humanizing: When the pitches of the harmonies are coupled too tight, they might interfere and be perceived as a single distorted voice. The humanization parameter solves this problem by adding very slight random pitch variations and an additional delay. •Formants: The formants determine the timbre, or color, of the voice. When the pitch of the voice is altered, the formants are maintained. One can disable the formant correction by pressing the green button next to the slider. The formant slider controls a linear scaling of the formants and alters the color of the voice. By shifting the pitch up and scaling the formants, the voice of a woman can be changed to the voice of a young girl. •Filters: Mu Voice offers a number of filter presets—high-pass, band-pass, comb-filters, notch filters, and more. •Harmonic EQ-ing: The proprietary spectral analysis technique on which Mu Voice is based allows you to control the amplitu...details