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MCharacter

Overview

MCharacter is a unique tool, that lets you directly access the harmonics of your monophonic audio material. It can be used on vocals, bass,

trumpet, saxophone... just about any instrument that is monophonic. It opens a range of audio processing and creative possibilities.

Leveling harmonics and changing character

The original idea was about mixing however - in many cases equalization just doesn't fill the needs, because the audio being processed is

constantly moving in the frequency spectrum. Sure you can automate the whole thing, but that would be extremely time consuming and

results inaccurate. Hardware mixing consoles have so many limitations that anything like this was simply unimaginable; the digital world

gives you yet another marvellous possibility - moving the equalizer automatically depending on the pitch. You can do that with a combination

of MAutoDynamicEq and MFilter. However it is still not a perfect solution because it needs to mix 2 worlds - spectrum domain for pitch

detection and time domain for the actual processing. That in most cases makes following the pitch quite inaccurate and problematic.

Accessing the harmonics themselves is yet another problem, because the parametric equalizers, no matter how sophisticated, don't make

this very unnatural and scientific operation very simple.

And that's exactly what MCharacter is about. Most audio instruments have a distinctive character defined by their harmonics and formants.

While formants are pretty much static in the spectrum, so you can change them directly with an equalizer, harmonics are more problematic,

because they follow the pitch. MCharacter lets you control the levels of first 32 harmonics in a very simple and effective way - with the

Levels graph. By working directly in spectrum domain the plugin's ability to detect pitch is outstanding and the changes are instant, which

makes it outperform traditional equalizers in just about every way.

What exactly are harmonics? Let's say you will be singing a tone with pitch of 100Hz. The 100Hz is called fundamental frequency and in

most cases is dominant, or at least one of the most prominent frequencies. Your voice then also generates 200Hz, 300Hz, 400Hz... These

are called harmonics and the levels of them define considerable part of the instrument's character. 200Hz is 1 octave above the pitch, 400Hz

is 2 octaves above, 800Hz is 3 octaves etc.

Creative potential

The plugin also contains 2 synthesis methods - Harmonic synthesis via the Synthesis graph and an actual note synthesis via the Notes

graph. These actually work pretty much the same way, but their range is different. The idea is, that the plugin can actually synthesize any

frequency related to the pitch.

For example, if your audio material doesn't contain 8th harmonic at all, or is very low in level, use the Synthesis graph to generate it. The

plugin essentially takes each different frequency that exists inside your audio material and adds its shifted version into the signal again. That

makes it closely follow the character of the audio material making the results quite natural.

Notes graph serves a different purpose - while the synthesis algorithm is exactly the same, it doesn't let you create frequencies at locations

of harmonics, but instead it uses transposition - it lets you generate frequencies at -2 octaves to +2 octaves from the fundamental. So for

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