using pitch control to create chourus effect...

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I was wondering if someone could explain this technique. I am curious as to weather or not I can achieve this with my current set up. I have a Yamaha MD8, and it has a pitch control function. What pitch differential would you use to create this affect in a typical situation.

Please try to simplify your answers. I am a rookie.

Roch
 
The Ozzie Doubler. I usually pitch a vocal from .15 to .25 % and mix it with the dry signal to taste for this effect. It has the Ozzie sound.
 
Roch,

A simple - pitch shift isn't going to get you a Chorus effect.

Some what of a simulation would be to set the pitch shift at close to unity and pan the original to one side and the pitch shifted part to the other with a delay set between 10-35ms.

This is a poor quality effect. An exact replica is not the way to get the correct effect even if it's detuned and delayed.
You need to use an LFO (better if you can do it at random) to modulate the amlitude and the delay time, to get the real thing.
 
What is an LFO and why is it better to do it at random? He asks inquisitevly.
 
Roch said:
What is an LFO and why is it better to do it at random? He asks inquisitevly.

LFO- low frequency oscillator. It continually varies the time delay.
It slows and speeds the delayed signal. It can also modulate the amplitude as well.

Imagine this is done at random....you get a more realistic sound of an ensemble. When you duplicate the sound using a fixed delay replica, you get 2 versions of the same sound (basicly).
Real humans duplicating can Never ! do that. Humans change the delay time, pitch, attack, and amplitude. Thats !! a real ensemble.
 
I don't know that I have ever heard a chorus effect that sounds like a real ensemble.

The simple detune and delay method is a cool effect, I have used it to create some very large-sounding guitar leads in the past. Mess around with it. Have some fun. Remember, though, that you will have to double the original source and add the pitch shift to only one of them.
 
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