Here we will create an effect that will start pitched up and then ramp back down to it’s original pitch over the course of two beats. Let’s enhance this loop a bit by dragging a Frequency Shifter onto each drum cell with a sound loaded and using the effect creatively for each individual element.īegin by clicking on the “Kick” drum cell. We can hear on this basic 808 beat that the low end is present and the snare and hat groove is nice but doesn’t grab our ear with excitement. Kick Enhancementīefore applying the Frequency Shifter effect, let’s first listen to just the drums. This excludes using the power of Live’s Simper and Sampler, though I’d argue that using Frequency Shifter is best for situations like this because it’s not bound to any sound and can be dropped anywhere in your live set. If you try to create this same effect manually, you would probably need to create multiple drum elements and/or open the Clip Envelopes and draw in your modulation. It can be used to modulate the pitch of a few elements of the drums to make them stand out and give them some character. Note: Make sure Live’s Computer MIDI Keyboard switch is turned off to access the keyboard toggle.įrequency Shifter is a great tool for enhancing drums. In the downloaded project, let’s listen to the final mix with a Frequency Shifter loaded on all the tracks in the Group named “Final.” Press the letter “a” on you keyboard to toggle between the enhanced mix and the original mix.
The Phase and Spin controls are great for stereo modulation. You can set the LFO rate with Hertz or sync to tempo. It also has six waveforms to choose from for modulation. The Frequency Shifter is built with two LFOs that can be used to modulate both left and right channels independently. For example, if the incoming audio signal (A) is a sine wave at 440 Hz and the Frequency is set to 100 Hz (B), the output will contain partials at 340 Hz (A-B) and 540 Hz (A+B). Ring Mode controls the frequency that can be either added and subtracted from the input signal. So if your synth is playing a C3 (130.81 Hz) and your frequency is 10 Hz, the result will be 140.81 Hz. Frequency Shifter works by shifting the Hz (Hertz) of the incoming signal either up or down using the Frequency, Coarse, and Fine controls. The Shift control is where we spend most of our time. The Frequency section has two modes: Shift and Ring.