Nectar 2’s FX module simulates a vocal pedalboard offering 7 new creative effects that give you a wealth of unique ways to process your vocals to achieve out of this world sounds.
Overdrive
The Overdrive effect adds a gritty and aggressive distortion to your vocals. Unlike Nectar’s Saturation module, which subtly adds harmonics to your voice, the Overdrive effect has the ability to severely mangle your vocal tracks.
Decimate
The Decimate effect is a downsampler that reduces the resolution rate of the incoming audio, creating a uniquely digital sounding distortion of the audio signal that adds artifacts. Used in combination with the Overdrive effect, you can quickly distort your voice beyond recognition. To use Decimate, you must first enable the effect then increase the amount control.
Phaser
The Phaser is a phase-shifting effect that adds an additional signal through a non-linear all pass filter creating a more subtle comb-filtering effect.
Feedback
The Feedback control determines the amount of the phased signal that is fed back into the Phaser.
Depth
The depth slider controls the frequency range of the filters of the phaser sweep. At lower settings, the phaser will affect low-end frequencies, and at higher settings, the phaser will sweep into higher frequencies.
Flanger
The Flanger is a phase-shifting effect that adds a slightly delayed signal to create a whooshing comb-filtering effect with frequency notches in linear harmonic series.
Feedback
The Feedback control determines the amount of the flanged signal that is fed back into the flanger.
Depth
The Depth control determines the amount of modulation by controlling the depth of the Flanger’s filtering.
Chorus
The Chorus adds a delayed pitch-modulated signal to the input, producing a shimmering effect that also widens the stereo spread.
Feedback
The Feedback control determines the amount of the chorused signal that is fed back into the Chorus.
Depth
The depth slider controls the range of the pitch modulation performed on your audio.
Echo
The Echo is a unique delay-like effect which repeats and fades out segments of your vocal tracks. It provides a more pronounced and impacting delay effect that adds a presence to your vocal tracks.
Feedback
The Feedback control determines the amount of the echoed signal that is fed back into the Echo.
Time
The Time control affects the amount of audio captured before fading begins.
Shred
The Shred effect is a unique stuttering delay-like effect that repeats samples of your audio, offering control of both sample size and the amount of repetition. It provides an upfront and aggressive repeating delay effect, allowing you to create complex rhythms.
Shreds
The Shreds control determines the number of times the repeated audio sample will play back within the specified capture window.
Repeats
The Repeats control affects the size of the sampled audio window that will be repeated. This control is directly related to the Global Tempo/Speed control described below. For example, if Host Sync is on and Speed is set to 1 bar, setting Repeats to ¼ will repeat the first quarter note of each captured bar, setting Repeats to ⅛ will repeat the first eighth note of each captured bar, and so on. You can only repeat segments of audio when your Speed setting is greater than your Repeats setting, since the Speed setting determines the length of the captured audio. When Host Sync is disabled, 1 bar of audio is captured by default. The length of this bar is determined by the Tempo control.
Series/Parallel Modes
In Series Mode, the effects contained in the module will affect the audio signal one after the other from Distort to Module to Repeat. In Parallel Mode, the effects will affect the incoming audio independently of each other. To visualize this, imagine that in Series Mode, the Distort effect output feeds the input of the Modulate effects, whose output feeds the input of the Repeat effects, whose output feeds the input of the Global Wet control. In Parallel Mode, imagine that the output of each effect is on its own path, all to be summed at the input of the Global Wet control.
Tempo
This control allows you to manually set the speed of relevant effects within the FX module. These include the effects within the Modulate and Repeat sections. By default, this control is set to sync to the effects every 1 bar at the specified tempo.
Host Sync
This button enables host syncing for relevant effects within the FX module. These include the effects within the Modulate and Repeat sections.
Speed
When Host Sync is enabled the Tempo control becomes the Speed control. This control allows you to choose the note length used to sync the Modulate and Repeat effects, relative to your host’s tempo setting.
Dry/Wet Controls
The Dry/Wet Controls affect the amount of Dry (unaffected) and Wet (affected) signal output by the module.
Mini-spectrum Display
Each module of Nectar features a display of the frequency spectrum at the top for reference while making changes to your audio within the module.