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Spyk Saturn
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Anyone know of any to download. Cubase has a pitch shifter but it has to process, leaving me only supposing what I recorded will sound like. Haven't found any stand alone vsts that do this.
Guitargodgt
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I don't think you are going to find anything free.
Try out a demo of waves sound shifter is my suggestion. I have no idea if it's real time or not though.
Try out a demo of waves sound shifter is my suggestion. I have no idea if it's real time or not though.
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Spyk Saturn
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I don't care too much if its free or not. Just as long as its worth the money.
MrWrenchey
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Antares auto-tune is a popular one. You can set it to automatically pitch shift something based on a specific key, or type in MIDI notes and have it pitch shift according to those.
Bobbsy
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Antares is probably the "industry standard" for real time pitch correction (if such a thing exists) but it's b****y expensive. They DO have free trials though you need an iLok to use it.
However, just to clarify, are you wanting to use the pitch-corrected material for monitoring when you actually record? If so, this isn't such a good idea. You can end up with the vocalist and pitch shifter playing "tag" with each other and never settling on an exactly right note. Unless you're Brittany Spears performing live, you're probably better off just doing your best (or having the vocalist do their best) unprocessed during tracking then fix what's necessary later on.
However, just to clarify, are you wanting to use the pitch-corrected material for monitoring when you actually record? If so, this isn't such a good idea. You can end up with the vocalist and pitch shifter playing "tag" with each other and never settling on an exactly right note. Unless you're Brittany Spears performing live, you're probably better off just doing your best (or having the vocalist do their best) unprocessed during tracking then fix what's necessary later on.
MrWrenchey
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That's true. $300-500 for the normal version. I'm not sure what the EFX one does differently, but that one's $100 if you're looking for a cheaper one.
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Spyk Saturn
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Well the pitch shifter is for guitar not vocals. Basically i want it for lower tunings.I have a locking trem so it's one hell of a hassle to do thi manually.
ashcat_lt
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Reaper comes with a plugin called ReaPitch which will do it. I'm pretty sure you can download the plugins as standalone VSTs. I think that in general with these things you will have to trade off some between quality and latency, especially if the notes you want to shift are already fairly low. Considering that a single period of a 100Hz wave is 10ms long, the plugin pretty much has to wait that long to be sure that it's got that frequency. 100Hz is a little below low A on a standard tuned guitar, so to shift all of the lowest notes you need a window even longer.
If you can stand that latency, and don't need to shift too far, then you can get some decent results. Keep in mind, though, that it will be shifting the whole guitar by the same amount, so you could drop from EADGBE to DGCFAD, but not to like open G or whatever. There will almost always be some artifacts, though they might be obscured some by heavy distortion. For quick and nasty it might work "we'll enough". The best solution is, of course, actually retuning the guitar.
If you can stand that latency, and don't need to shift too far, then you can get some decent results. Keep in mind, though, that it will be shifting the whole guitar by the same amount, so you could drop from EADGBE to DGCFAD, but not to like open G or whatever. There will almost always be some artifacts, though they might be obscured some by heavy distortion. For quick and nasty it might work "we'll enough". The best solution is, of course, actually retuning the guitar.
BroKen_H
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Or getting a second guitar with fatter strings to pull the lower tuning well...I've found doing drop C tuning on a standard set of 10s doesn't work well. Get you some 65-13 s like Everly 9113 or DR DDT. Good bottom heavy strings. A Good Warlock or Bitch will cost you around the same $300-500 and you'll have a better axe arsenal.
bouldersoundguy
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Farview
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Are we talking about pitch shifting, or pitch correction?
Pitch shifting is simply taking the input and moving it by a specific amount, no matter what it is.
Pitch correction is taking the input, analyzing it, deciding what it should be, then shifting it to the 'right' note.
Pitch shifting is easy and doesn't have the latency involved with figuring out the original pitch. If you are just trying to take a guitar tuned to standard pitch and bring it down a step, this is all you need.
There should be plenty of cheap/free plugs out there. Google "pitch shift VST freeware"
Pitch shifting is simply taking the input and moving it by a specific amount, no matter what it is.
Pitch correction is taking the input, analyzing it, deciding what it should be, then shifting it to the 'right' note.
Pitch shifting is easy and doesn't have the latency involved with figuring out the original pitch. If you are just trying to take a guitar tuned to standard pitch and bring it down a step, this is all you need.
There should be plenty of cheap/free plugs out there. Google "pitch shift VST freeware"