Pitch Page - X-Stream - 1.0

For all settings to be visible, click the Pitch header to open the maximized view.

Pitchbend Up/Pitchbend Down

Determines the range of the modulation that is applied when you move the pitchbend wheel.

Pitch

Determines the pitch of the sound.

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.

Pitch Envelope 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.

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.

Glide On/Off

Activates/Deactivates Glide. Glide allows you to bend the pitch between notes that follow each other.

Glide Time

Sets the glide time, that is, the time it takes to bend the pitch from one note to the next.

Sync to Host Tempo

Activate Sync to synchronize the Glide Time to the host tempo. Select a note value from the pop-up menu. To change the selected note value to a triplet, activate the Triplets button.

Pitch Envelope Parameters

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 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.

  Note

  The Pitch envelope continues to be played in a loop after releasing notes, which makes it possible to use the modulation in the Release phase of a note.

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 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 Preset

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 Preset

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

Sync to Host Tempo

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

Grid

Allows you to set the grid for the envelope display, in note values.

Bipolar

If this button is activated, the pitch envelope is bipolar, which means that it allows for negative and positive values to bend the pitch.

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.

Show 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.

Select Node

Displays the active envelope node. To select a node, enter its number in the field. To navigate 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

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

This parameter is available if the pitch envelope is used for pitch modulation, that is, if the Pitch Envelope Amount parameter is larger than 0. Otherwise, the pitch envelope can be used as a modulation source. In this case, you can use this control to set the level of the modulation source, in %.

Curve

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