gotPitchShifter?

Vmusic

Hi,
I am looking for a rather simplistic pitch shifter for audio (not MIDI). I have the Eventide VOX app, but it’s more for complex voicings like creating chords and stuff….than a basic simple pitch shifter.

I need both up +1 or +2 octaves and down -1 or -2 octaves.

Thanks!!

Samu

What about Harmony Eight from Virsyn?

(It's an AUv3 now and the video should give you a taster of what it can do).

attakk

If you have Drambo then it has a simple pitchshifter that can go +/-1 octave. If you need 2 octaves then you can chain two together in the same patch.

nuno_agogo

@Samu said:
What about Harmony Eight from Virsyn?

(It's an AUv3 now and the video should give you a taster of what it can do).

can this do what improvox did?

Poppadocrock

I don’t have this one but always wanted it…

Jax unisonic
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/jax-unisonic-audio-unit/id1492522141

I’d Pass on Quinta, kind of underwhelming, but rest of Nembrini is really nice.

Audio Damage Discord 4 Is decent.

You also have options inside many of the guitar amp apps like ToneStack pro, bias FX 2, etc…

I don’t own but I’m sure MixBox has that option

Vmusic

Can Drambo take a real time input (like guitar or violin); and pitch shift it real time?

Vmusic

Can Harmony 8 detune the pitch by ‘cents’??
One thing I do in my Axe Fx is to take my violin input, run it through the pitch shifter - but I DO NOT shift the pitch, I just detune it by a few ‘cents’ and put a 20-50 ms delay on it. This provides a “thickening” of my sound.

Harmony Eight looks cool, I wonder if it can detune

Poppadocrock

@Vmusic said:
Can Drambo take a real time input (like guitar or violin); and pitch shift it real time?

There are some patches on Patchstorage that look like they could do the trick.

I searched pitch shift under drambo and here’s what came up…

https://patchstorage.com/platform/drambo/?search_query=Pitch+shift&tax_platform=drambo&tax_post_tag=&orderby=modified&wpas_id=search_form&wpas_submit=1

Samu

@nuno_agogo said:

@Samu said:
What about Harmony Eight from Virsyn?

(It's an AUv3 now and the video should give you a taster of what it can do).

can this do what improvox did?

Never had Improvox so I can't say...
...there's more videos of Harmony Eight on Youtube.

Samu

@Vmusic said:
Can Harmony 8 detune the pitch by ‘cents’??

Yes, +/-12 semitones and +/- 50 cents.

Here's Doug getting creative with the app...

Zerozerozero

@Vmusic said:
Can Harmony 8 detune the pitch by ‘cents’??
One thing I do in my Axe Fx is to take my violin input, run it through the pitch shifter - but I DO NOT shift the pitch, I just detune it by a few ‘cents’ and put a 20-50 ms delay on it. This provides a “thickening” of my sound.

Harmony Eight looks cool, I wonder if it can detune

Eventide MicroPitch does this. You might pick it up cheap in a bundle if you already have QVox on Black Friday

attakk

@Vmusic said:
Can Drambo take a real time input (like guitar or violin); and pitch shift it real time?

Yes.

1. Add an instance of Drambo FX to the insert of the audio you want to change the pitch of.

2. In Drambo add a PitchShift module (it will automatically link the audio in to it and its output to audio out)

3. Add a Pitch(oct,semi,fine) module and set it to modulate the Shift dial of the pitchshift module

4. Set the pitch octave value to 1 or -1. Voila. It’s about as simple a thing to make as it gets.

Drambo will have automatically added a midi module but you can remove it as it isn’t needed.

The above example in an insert in NS2:

Blown up so you can see what’s going on (here I am pitching down the audio by 1 octave):

If you do not wish to shift by octave, the pitch module allows you to shift by semitone or you can finetune.

You cannot pitchshift outside of 1 octave up or down though - but you can have, say, 2 pitchshift modules placed in series so the first shifts by 1 and then the second shifts the output of the first by 1.

Gravitas

Errmmm.

I might add that Koala FX also has a pitch shifter.
It's actually quite okay.

I think it would require external cc control to get fine pitch shifting happening
but you do get several other effects alongside the pitch shifter.

tahiche

I recently purchased MolochVox can be used as a simple pitch shifter and/or a whole bunch of crazy and cool stuff. Good latency and sounds good.

cokomairena

The only pitch shifter I> @Gravitas said:

Errmmm.

I might add that Koala FX also has a pitch shifter.
It's actually quite okay.

I think it would require external cc control to get fine pitch shifting happening
but you do get several other effects alongside the pitch shifter.

the pitch shifter on koala is super low quality to my ears, I really like the one on slow machine but it doesn't work on semitones and only goes down, but sounds very good.

Gravitas

@cokomairena said:
The only pitch shifter I> @Gravitas said:

Errmmm.

I might add that Koala FX also has a pitch shifter.
It's actually quite okay.

I think it would require external cc control to get fine pitch shifting happening
but you do get several other effects alongside the pitch shifter.

the pitch shifter on koala is super low quality to my ears, I really like the one on slow machine but it doesn't work on semitones and only goes down, but sounds very good.

Oh,… well done.

tahiche

@cokomairena said:
The only pitch shifter I> @Gravitas said:

Errmmm.

I might add that Koala FX also has a pitch shifter.
It's actually quite okay.

I think it would require external cc control to get fine pitch shifting happening
but you do get several other effects alongside the pitch shifter.

the pitch shifter on koala is super low quality to my ears, I really like the one on slow machine but it doesn't work on semitones and only goes down, but sounds very good.

Unless I’m missing something Slow Machine is not really a pitch shifter. Right?. I mean, it will slow down the audio…
I do love to use it as a “bass” generator, setting a rather small loop size and 1/2 or 1/4 speed, but it produces a sort of staccato effect, which is cool but probably not appropriate for other uses.

celtic_elk

@Vmusic said:
One thing I do in my Axe Fx is to take my violin input, run it through the pitch shifter - but I DO NOT shift the pitch, I just detune it by a few ‘cents’ and put a 20-50 ms delay on it. This provides a “thickening” of my sound.

The Eddie Van Halen trick.

Gravitas

@tahiche said:

@cokomairena said:
The only pitch shifter I> @Gravitas said:

Errmmm.

I might add that Koala FX also has a pitch shifter.
It's actually quite okay.

I think it would require external cc control to get fine pitch shifting happening
but you do get several other effects alongside the pitch shifter.

the pitch shifter on koala is super low quality to my ears, I really like the one on slow machine but it doesn't work on semitones and only goes down, but sounds very good.

Unless I’m missing something Slow Machine is not really a pitch shifter. Right?. I mean, it will slow down the audio…
I do love to use it as a “bass” generator, setting a rather small loop size and 1/2 or 1/4 speed, but it produces a sort of staccato effect, which is cool but probably not appropriate for other uses.

The OP mentioned pitch shifters and
whilst reading through the comments
I remembered Koala FX has a pitch shifter.
Hence the mention.

It’s super low quality so
please ignore my comment.

cokomairena

@tahiche said:

@cokomairena said:
The only pitch shifter I> @Gravitas said:

Errmmm.

I might add that Koala FX also has a pitch shifter.
It's actually quite okay.

I think it would require external cc control to get fine pitch shifting happening
but you do get several other effects alongside the pitch shifter.

the pitch shifter on koala is super low quality to my ears, I really like the one on slow machine but it doesn't work on semitones and only goes down, but sounds very good.

Unless I’m missing something Slow Machine is not really a pitch shifter. Right?. I mean, it will slow down the audio…
I do love to use it as a “bass” generator, setting a rather small loop size and 1/2 or 1/4 speed, but it produces a sort of staccato effect, which is cool but probably not appropriate for other uses.

the right side is a pitch shifter, the left side slows the signal

cokomairena

Also, yesterday I tried he pitch shifter on loopy pro beta and it sounds very good

iOSTRAKON

I still have a couple of their albums 😁

tahiche

@cokomairena said:

@tahiche said:

@cokomairena said:
The only pitch shifter I> @Gravitas said:

Errmmm.

I might add that Koala FX also has a pitch shifter.
It's actually quite okay.

I think it would require external cc control to get fine pitch shifting happening
but you do get several other effects alongside the pitch shifter.

the pitch shifter on koala is super low quality to my ears, I really like the one on slow machine but it doesn't work on semitones and only goes down, but sounds very good.

Unless I’m missing something Slow Machine is not really a pitch shifter. Right?. I mean, it will slow down the audio…
I do love to use it as a “bass” generator, setting a rather small loop size and 1/2 or 1/4 speed, but it produces a sort of staccato effect, which is cool but probably not appropriate for other uses.

the right side is a pitch shifter, the left side slows the signal

Could you please explain this?. I might be missing something obvious, but I don’t see how you just pitch shift without slowing down. Here’s the closest I get to sounding like a plain pitch shifter, but still has that staccato/stagger effect.

Gravitas

@tahiche said:

@cokomairena said:

@tahiche said:

@cokomairena said:
The only pitch shifter I> @Gravitas said:

Errmmm.

I might add that Koala FX also has a pitch shifter.
It's actually quite okay.

I think it would require external cc control to get fine pitch shifting happening
but you do get several other effects alongside the pitch shifter.

the pitch shifter on koala is super low quality to my ears, I really like the one on slow machine but it doesn't work on semitones and only goes down, but sounds very good.

Unless I’m missing something Slow Machine is not really a pitch shifter. Right?. I mean, it will slow down the audio…
I do love to use it as a “bass” generator, setting a rather small loop size and 1/2 or 1/4 speed, but it produces a sort of staccato effect, which is cool but probably not appropriate for other uses.

the right side is a pitch shifter, the left side slows the signal

Could you please explain this?. I might be missing something obvious, but I don’t see how you just pitch shift without slowing down. Here’s the closest I get to sounding like a plain pitch shifter, but still has that staccato/stagger effect.

Is Slow machine similar to
the buffer stop effect in Drambo
or the multi play head stuff in
Other Desert Cities?
Those effects play with pitch but are
not in themselves actual pitchshifters.

As mentioned ToneStack has really
good pitch shifters and the one from
Jaxx is really good also.
There was a thread somewhere that
showed examples of the ones from Jaxx.
I personally would recommend
the ones in ToneStack.
I mentioned Koala FX because not everyone needs to buy a whole suite for one effect.

NoiseFloored

@Gravitas said:

@tahiche said:

@cokomairena said:

@tahiche said:

@cokomairena said:
The only pitch shifter I> @Gravitas said:

Errmmm.

I might add that Koala FX also has a pitch shifter.
It's actually quite okay.

I think it would require external cc control to get fine pitch shifting happening
but you do get several other effects alongside the pitch shifter.

the pitch shifter on koala is super low quality to my ears, I really like the one on slow machine but it doesn't work on semitones and only goes down, but sounds very good.

Unless I’m missing something Slow Machine is not really a pitch shifter. Right?. I mean, it will slow down the audio…
I do love to use it as a “bass” generator, setting a rather small loop size and 1/2 or 1/4 speed, but it produces a sort of staccato effect, which is cool but probably not appropriate for other uses.

the right side is a pitch shifter, the left side slows the signal

Could you please explain this?. I might be missing something obvious, but I don’t see how you just pitch shift without slowing down. Here’s the closest I get to sounding like a plain pitch shifter, but still has that staccato/stagger effect.

Is Slow machine similar to
the buffer stop effect in Drambo
or the multi play head stuff in
Other Desert Cities?
Those effects play with pitch but are
not in themselves actual pitchshifters.

The orange section is indeed roughly similar to Drambo's Buffer rescan module, while the blue section is similar to Buffer stop; no pitch shifting as I understand it.

Gravitas

@NoiseFloored said:

The orange section is indeed roughly similar to Drambo's Buffer rescan module, while the blue section is similar to Buffer stop; no pitch shifting as I understand it.

Thanks for this.

That would explain @tahiche’s description
of a staccato effect or sound.
The OP asked for a dedicated pitch shifter.

The Whammy in Tonestacks is quite close
to the real thing and that’s +- 2 octaves.

Panthemusicalgoat

Honestly all the pitch shifters on ios are p bad imo because they track single pitches leading to a lot of dropouts and weird garbling. The only one I like is in tonestack by yonac with the red whammy pedal. It sounds pretty good. I play acoustic guitar thru it and pitch it down and it sounds p cool actually

cokomairena

@tahiche said:

@cokomairena said:

@tahiche said:

@cokomairena said:
The only pitch shifter I> @Gravitas said:

Errmmm.

I might add that Koala FX also has a pitch shifter.
It's actually quite okay.

I think it would require external cc control to get fine pitch shifting happening
but you do get several other effects alongside the pitch shifter.

the pitch shifter on koala is super low quality to my ears, I really like the one on slow machine but it doesn't work on semitones and only goes down, but sounds very good.

Unless I’m missing something Slow Machine is not really a pitch shifter. Right?. I mean, it will slow down the audio…
I do love to use it as a “bass” generator, setting a rather small loop size and 1/2 or 1/4 speed, but it produces a sort of staccato effect, which is cool but probably not appropriate for other uses.

the right side is a pitch shifter, the left side slows the signal

Could you please explain this?. I might be missing something obvious, but I don’t see how you just pitch shift without slowing down. Here’s the closest I get to sounding like a plain pitch shifter, but still has that staccato/stagger effect.

move the speed fader on the right

edit: and turn off the yellow part

rs2000

It also does pitch shifting @tahiche like coko said, only pitch down though.
Note that the DAW transport must be running, otherwise the effect is disabled.

Vmusic

Well......I tried (paid for) Harmony 8...... but it's NOT clean. It muddies or almost makes the sound like it has a chorus.
I've attached the 'dry' sound, and then the same instrument ran through Harmony 8

any thoughts????

rs2000

@Vmusic said:
Well......I tried (paid for) Harmony 8...... but it's NOT clean. It muddies or almost makes the sound like it has a chorus.
I've attached the 'dry' sound, and then the same instrument ran through Harmony 8

any thoughts????

Pitch shifters generally have a hard time to deliver good quality when shifting voices upwards by more than a few semitones.
Drambo sounds better though...