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Trellis

Trellis editor

A monophonic pitch corrector that pulls a voice or lead onto the notes of a key and scale.

Inlets
Audio1
Outlets
Audio1

It tracks the incoming fundamental, snaps it to the nearest allowed note of the chosen Key and Scale, and shifts the audio there with a crossfading delay-line shifter, one voice at a time. Speed sets how fast the glide to the target is: slow keeps the natural drift, fast is the hard-tune effect. The note grid comes from the patch tuning, so a Tuning organism set to 19-EDO puts the scale masks over 19 degrees rather than 12. The wet path carries a short delay. Cord a mono vocal from a SoundIn, or a Decomposer, in.

Parameters

StrengthHow far toward the target the pitch is pulled. 0 leaves the performance alone; 1 snaps fully onto the grid.
SpeedHow fast the pitch glides to the target. Low is transparent correction; near maximum is the robotic snap.
KeyThe tonic, C to B. Click the box and press a key, on a MIDI keyboard or on the piano that opens; any octave sets the same tonic.
ScaleThe notes the pitch may land on: Chromatic, Major, Minor, the modes, Harmonic and Melodic Minor, both pentatonics, Blues, Whole Tone and Hirajoshi.
MixHow much corrected signal is heard against the dry.

Recipe

Natural tuneKey to the song's key, Scale Major or Minor, Strength 0.7, Speed 0.4, Mix 1. For the effect instead: Scale Chromatic, Strength 1, Speed 1. Cord the output to a Verbatim or a Fern so the correction sits in a space.