J-War
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What is your favorite " Pitch Shifter " VST so far ?
Hello all !  I like A LOT to add " Whammy type " pitch shifted layers to my main guitar sounds. (and sometimes on other textures) Often, i pitch shift a D.I guitar (octave up/down) sound and reamp it to make an additionnal guitar layer. Until now i've played a lot with " Waves SoundShifter " and finaly found out that " Antares Autotune 8 transpose module " (Instrument mode) sounds a bit more sharp, and i like it a lot. I know there are reviews and articles online but from you personnal point of view and experience, i am very curious to know what are your favorites Shifter VST so far !  J.
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sharke
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Re: What is your favorite " Pitch Shifter " VST so far ?
2018/04/20 22:48:09
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Little AlterBoy by Soundtoys, without a doubt!
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conklin
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Re: What is your favorite " Pitch Shifter " VST so far ?
2018/04/20 22:50:31
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J-War
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Re: What is your favorite " Pitch Shifter " VST so far ?
2018/04/20 22:53:26
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Thanks Sharke and conklin.
You're right ! i Forgot what a true legend the Eventide H3000 was !
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conklin
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Re: What is your favorite " Pitch Shifter " VST so far ?
2018/04/20 22:55:36
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I think you can try H3000 Factory free for 15 days. I think.....
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J-War
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Re: What is your favorite " Pitch Shifter " VST so far ?
2018/04/20 22:58:37
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Yes ! I've just requested the 30 days demo. 
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scook
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Re: What is your favorite " Pitch Shifter " VST so far ?
2018/04/20 23:15:15
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The Eventide diatonic pitch shift algorithm is in their QuadraVox and OctaVox plug-ins. For the traditional Eventide pitch shift, I would probably go with the H910 plug-in. The H3000 Factory plug-in implements a pitch shift similar to the H910 and H949.
Other interesting pitch shift plug-ins are Zplane Elatiique Pitch (I have the original, never bothered to upgrade) and Zynaptic Pitchmap.
It is also possible to load clips or entire tracks into Rapture (and most other sfz synths) and play them too. Although this messes with both pitch and time.
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35mm
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Re: What is your favorite " Pitch Shifter " VST so far ?
2018/04/20 23:43:12
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Not a VST and call me old-fashioned, but I really used to love the vari-speed knob on old tape machines :) If anyone knows of a VST that can act exactly like that and faithfully reproduce that effect as easily, I would love to know about it! I'm not trying to sound like one of those "back in the good old days when I was young" types, but genuinely there are some old analogue tricks that used to be done with ease that should technically be easy to do now in the digital domain but aren't because every plugin manufacturer wants to compete over that ancient EQ, compressor, tape emulator or saturation effect which has been done to death, but none of them wants to do the basics!
Other than that élastiquePRO or Melodyne work ok, but not quite as well as vari-speed ;)
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Re: What is your favorite " Pitch Shifter " VST so far ?
2018/04/20 23:51:57
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scook
The Eventide diatonic pitch shift algorithm is in their QuadraVox and OctaVox plug-ins. For the traditional Eventide pitch shift, I would probably go with the H910 plug-in. The H3000 Factory plug-in implements a pitch shift similar to the H910 and H949.
Other interesting pitch shift plug-ins are Zplane Elatiique Pitch (I have the original, never bothered to upgrade) and Zynaptic Pitchmap.
It is also possible to load clips or entire tracks into Rapture (and most other sfz synths) and play them too.
The H910 VST is excellent. When you buy the Eventide version, you also get the Dual version. From their website: When you purchase the H910 Harmonizer® plug-in, you also receive Eventide’s exclusive H910 Dual Harmonizer®. This version recreates the popular technique of running two H910 units in parallel to create lush doubling and other interesting effects. Very cool.
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scook
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Re: What is your favorite " Pitch Shifter " VST so far ?
2018/04/20 23:57:32
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The same is true for the H494 plug-in. I believe part of the motivation is the mono versions misbehave on stereo tracks (at least they used to I have not tested recently).
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J-War
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Re: What is your favorite " Pitch Shifter " VST so far ?
2018/04/21 00:21:55
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Thanks for the info guys, very useful !
@35mm I use the slate VTM but it seems there isn't anything close to what you're searching for. Maybe some other plugins ?
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pwalpwal
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Re: What is your favorite " Pitch Shifter " VST so far ?
2018/04/21 09:01:03
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jpetersen
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Re: What is your favorite " Pitch Shifter " VST so far ?
2018/04/21 19:29:15
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Suffers from the same trilling effect when doing pitch-up that the Boss harmonizers have.
But OK, Eventide - that was - 1975?
You'd think Boss would have gotten that solved by now.
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Re: What is your favorite " Pitch Shifter " VST so far ?
2018/04/21 19:41:12
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35mm
Not a VST and call me old-fashioned, but I really used to love the vari-speed knob on old tape machines :)
You can use the Loop Construction View for that. I use it all the time to speed up and slow down masters, because there's no degradation (i.e., it alters both pitch and time, so there's no stretching involved). I've about this technique quite a lot.
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