Waveshaper
The Waveshaper adds harmonics to a sound, and you choose which ones: a warm octave, a hollow fifth
above it, a bright reedy top, or a blend. It goes in any effects rack, most often as an insert on a
bass, a pad, a lead or a voice that needs more body or more edge.
It adds the harmonics you choose, and they stay the same at any level: a quiet note gets the same
colour as a loud one. It never clips.
It loads doing nothing (Amount 0 %): the sound passes through untouched. Turn Amount up to hear the
harmonics come in.
Harmonics
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| 1Amount | How loud the added harmonics are, against the sound. 0 % as it loads: the sound as it came in. |
| 2Height | How far up the harmonics reach, from the 2nd to the 8th. 50 % as it loads. |
| 3Even/odd | Which harmonics: Even (+100 %), Odd (−100 %) or Both (0, as it loads, a click-stop on the knob), and every blend between. |
Height: darker to brighter. At 0 % the sound gains only the 2nd and the 3rd harmonic; turn it up
and the higher ones join, in pairs.
Even/odd: warm or hollow. What each harmonic adds:
| Harmonic | Sounds like | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd | the octave above: fuller, warmer | even |
| 3rd | an octave and a fifth: hollow, woody, like a clarinet | odd |
| 4th | two octaves: brighter, still sweet | even |
| 5th | two octaves and a third: reedy | odd |
| 6th | two octaves and a fifth: bright | even |
| 7th | two octaves and a slightly flat seventh: buzzy, a little sour | odd |
| 8th | three octaves: airy top | even |
The even harmonics are octaves and fifths of the note, so they thicken it without changing its
character, like a tube amp. The odd ones give the hollow, square-wave colour of a clarinet or an
overdriven reed. Turn Even/odd to the even side for warmth, to the odd side for bite.
Output
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| 4Dry/wet | Balance between the dry and the shaped sound. 100 % as it loads; lower, the harmonics come in lower (Amount still sets how loud they are at 100 %). |
| 5Level | The module's output level, dry included. |
The harmonics add to the level; pull Level down if the next effect gets too hot.
On a MoonUn cuerpo del Orbiter que funciona como envío y retorno: el Mundo se envía a ella y solo devuelve su efecto, que el mezclador de la Estrella suma al sonido seco. it returns only the harmonics; the Moon level sets how much you hear
(see Audio effects).
Best on one voice
On one note at a time (a bass, a lead, a pad's single voice) you hear exactly the harmonics you chose.
On a chord or a full mix the notes' harmonics rub against each other and turn rough. On a mix, keep
Amount low and lean to the even side.
The screen
6A flytrap. Seven leaves fan out from the ground, one per harmonic, each ending in a trap: the 2nd and
3rd stand nearly upright, the 7th and 8th lean out widest; the even harmonics lean left, the odd ones
right.
- How wide a trap opens is how loud its harmonic is. Amount opens them all; at 0 % they are
shut and the picture turns grey: Off · 0 %. Height opens the outer traps, Even/odd one side. - The flies come while sound plays, and fly to the most open trap, which shuts on them.
- The word says what the harmonics sound like: Warm (towards even) or Hollow (towards
odd); near Both, Bright, Round or Rich.
Try it
- A warmer bass. On a bass with one note at a time: Amount 40 %, Height 0 %, Even/odd all the way to Even. It gains the octave above and is easier to hear on small speakers.
- A hollow, reedy lead. Amount 60 %, Height 50 %, Even/odd all the way to Odd: the clarinet colour.
- Air on a pad. Amount 25 %, Height 100 %, Both. Keep Amount low on chords, so the notes' harmonics don't turn rough.
Mapping
Every control can be mapped to the Orbiter's axesUno de los tres controles de interpretación de un Orbiter: X, Y y Z.: see Edit.