SONAR LE Documentation is based on the full version of SONAR. Some screenshots, folder paths, features and other references may differ from your installation.

Editing formants

A rough definition of formants is that they are vowel sounds. To edit formants with V‑Vocal, the Formant button in the Edit Mode section must be enabled.

Here’s a picture of the V‑Vocal interface in formant mode:

The red line in the graph is the formant line. The red dots on the line are nodes.

To shift the formant of a region

1.	Use the Arrow tool to select the region you want to shift.

2.	Drag the red line in the region up or down.

When you drag the red line, nodes are automatically created at the start and end of the selected region. You can drag the nodes to create different shapes.

Tips:

Double-clicking the red line in a selected region adds nodes to the place where you click, and also to the start and end of the selected region.

You can do freehand editing with the Pen tool.

You can add an LFO to a selected region by dragging the red line up or down with the Vibrato tool. Dragging left or right modifies the LFO frequency.

You can reset segments of the red line by dragging with the Eraser.

You can increase or decrease the formant for the entire phrase by adjusting the Shift knob.

To link the Formant line to the Pitch line

To increase or decrease the formant relative to pitch, adjust the Pitch Follow knob. You can view pitch at the same time as formants by right-clicking the graph, and choosing Views > Pitch from the context menu.

 

See:

Editing dynamics