FL Studio Mobile

Pitcher 2

Pitcher 2 is a real-time pitch-correction, manipulation module that can correct pitch errors in recorded audio or create special effects.

To load presets tap the 'Default' (upper right) and choose from the Presets List

Parameters

There are three tabs with controls:

Tuning

  • Scale display - Tap on note toggles to select them as options for pitch outputs. Deselect notes to exclude them. When a note is excluded, the next nearest pitch (note) will be used and the output pitched to that note. For example, deselecting all notes except one will force all input to that pitch. There are also Key and Scale options to automatically select notes in the specific scale.
  • Key - The root note of the Scale to be used on the note selector.
  • Scale - Choose the scale for the automatic note selection (Minor, Major, Pentatonic, Chromatic or Single note). Incoming audio will be snapped or re-runed to the pitches in the selected scale.
  • Speed - Sets how fast pitches will be shifted to their targets. Effectively, this parameter sets the 'portamento' speed. High values will produce the typical robot-like effect; slow settings create smooth portamenti and glissandi.
  • Formants - Select for automatic formant correction. Vocals will sound more natural with formant correction enabled. Formants are the resonances of the vocal tract or an instrument body. Normally, these do not change with pitch. This mode performs automatic formant correction proportional to the current pitch correction shift.
  • F-Shift (Formant shift) - When the Formants mode is on, the formant correction is proportionality set by the F-Shift knob, expressed as a percentage. For example, with F-Shift set to 25, the formant correction will be 25% of the current pitch correction amount. If the knob is -50, the formant correction is 50% of the current pitch correction in the opposite direction. When Formants is off, the F-Shift knob will create a static formant correction of +/- 1 Octave.

Expression

  • Humanization - This creates a natural-sounding effect as it simulates temporary correction inaccuracies corresponding to note changes. It determines the depth of an automatic correction 'release' mechanism. This works by applying a correction envelope driven by pitch variations: when a note changes, the pitch correction reduces and then glides back to being fully engaged on steady notes. The Humanization knob determines the percentage by which the correction strength is allowed to reduce to.
  • Sensitivity - Determines how quickly the snap-to-note mechanism reacts to variations in the input pitch. With low sensitivity settings, fast input pitch variations will be less likely to trigger a note-snapping.
  • Stability - This helps handle pitch jitter (pitch warbling) by controlling when snapping happens by setting how far the input must move from the current pitch before next-note snapping occurs. Specifically, the knob sets the switching threshold as a percentage of the pitch distance between the lower and upper snapping targets for an input pitch. For example, if the pitch distance between the snapping bounds is two semitones, if the Stability is set to 50%, the input has to cross a one-semitone distance up or down from the middle point to trigger a switch in either direction. The Stability knob is especially useful to handle jitter on input signals with vibrato.
  • Vibrato - Sets the maximum depth of an adaptive vibrato effect; the full range is +/- one semitone. The pitch modulation rate is driven by random motion, and it extends to the typical vibrato range of 4.5-6.5 Hz. The vibrato amount and rate follow an adaptive release mechanism: upon pitch-snapping variations, the vibrato effect is released to gradually reengage when the output is stable. This emulates singing behavior and creates a natural vibrato effect after a short delay when notes change.
  • Process Sibilants - They’re special because they don’t use the vocal cords and don’t have a musical pitch. Usually, you don’t change the pitch of these sounds because it can make speech sound odd. But you’re free to experiment and see what works best for you!

Options

  • Mix - Normally this is set to 100% (all effected sound). If you set this to between 30-60% you can create interesting chorus effects for vocals.
  • Pitch Reference - Choose the Channel used to detect pitch. Can be useful with stereo samples containing different left and right channel sounds.
  • Low latency - This will reduce the module's latency at the expense of being less accurate for low pitches.