Malström Shift control explanation

[Zachariah]

The best way I can describe it is exactly what you quoted.

Think about it in this light: Say your making a bassy patch and you tune the oscillator down an octave and it sounds beefy, but it has lost it lower midrange thickness, the shift parameter can bring it back a bit. Doing too much can give you crazy textures. I think its a harmonic thing based on the content of the grain sample, but yea. Sorry I dont have a scientific explanation.

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[bocsori13]

So I guess it adds extra overtones to the sound for example like that:

Original:
f = 440 Hz fundamental tone
f = 880 Hz 1st overtone
f = 1320 Hz 2nd overtone
f = 1760 Hz 3rd overtone

Modulated:
f = 220 Hz fundamental tone
f = 440 Hz 1st overtone
f = 660 Hz 2nd overtone
f = 880 Hz 3rd overtone
plus: f : 1100 Hz 4th added overtone
f: 1320 Hz 5th added overtone
and so on..

Am I right?

[bocsori13]

I meant that I halved the pitch then increased the shift control.

[bocsori13]

Anybody???

Or it just increases the amplitude of the existing overtones?

[Zachariah]

Propellerhead says that shift changes the formant spectre. Translated to laymens terms, my interpretation is that it focuses the spectrum band on the grain sample. Therefore it does not "create" overtones, more that it emphasizes (like band passing) different bands of the original grain sample.

That's my best attempt at translating. Sorry I couldn't be of more assistance.

[bocsori13]

Thanks mate!