![]() ![]() Comes with a great formant shift, but then Neptune is equally great IMO. Zplane - for the cost, I was surprised how bad it was aliasing, but handles most other stuff fairly well. Is OK in the +3 to -12 range, but not great on chords or high frequency material. Making transitions, snare rolls that pitches up, wobbly sounds, in the Waves StudioRack it can be interesting to use it as a harmonizer in multiband mode and M/S mode, pitch sweep long echos, fake tape stops. Guess I changed my mind So it is worth repeating: The ONLY pitcher that can handle +1 oct and high frequencies. ![]() I originally expected Waves PitchShifter to be some old garbage plugin that sounds bad since nobody ever talks about it. Some work behind doing this, worthy of a YouTube, but I'm not doing it, not my thing. The only one that can do this, unless you try to stack the others. To sweep/pitch down -2 oct is cool as it then sounds like a tape stop, but it doesn't slow down, but it feels like it does. The ONLY pitcher that can handle +1 oct and high frequencies.Įventide did OK-ish and was similar to Polar many times, but handled chords a little better, still horrible aliasing at high pitch / high frequency. Was on par or beat Zplane in most tests, lost to Zplane a couple of times, but only marginally. They flangy tone is not unpleasant and not too loud. Waves Can handle high pitches and high frequencies. Handles chord reasonably well, but not always. Zplane also aliasing at high pitches/high frequencies, less than Polar, but in many instance too much to be usable. Polar has bad aliasing that is ugly for high pitches, > +3 and material with high frequencies. +/- 1 oct.Įventide is the only one that can sweep +/- 2 oct. Waves and Zplane both can sweep without stepping. Note: Polar cannot do real sweeps as it steps per semitone, it is quite noticeable when sweeping slowly up to +12. All did quite good here, both at +12 and -12. This is a very hard test.ĭrum Groove of Kick/Perc. Waves, no aliasing, slight flanging, but surprisingly smooth. Zplane/Polar/Eventide extrem level of aliasing at +12. Eventide, glitches by marginally better than Polar/Zplane. Hi Hats - Waves very smooth at +12 and during sweeps, Polar/Zplane artifacts, and several hiccups during a sweep making it very hard to sweep up without loud glitches. Zplane less metallic, but some artifacts. Waves again some metallic tone at +12, but OK-ish. ![]() Synth Chord - Polar did not like chord and had plenty of artifacts, Eventide too. Prefer Waves, but Zplane/Eventide OK, Polar boarder line. Waves has a slight flangy tone at + pitches, Zplane/Eventide had artifacts at + pitches. Eventide Quadravox ( just using one line set to center, no delay)Ĭlean Guitar Strums - Polar had quite some artifacts at + pitches. Polar (set to Smooth and Fast and it worked best)ĭ. Waves PitchShifter (has 4 different algos, best chosen per material)Ĭ. The above three were so bad it is not worth mentioning.Ī. ![]() How: Changing/sweeping the pitch parameter from -12 to +12, ie +/- 1 oct. NOT using the formant function for the ones that had it. now the reason that most concerned me was the compressor not really the eq, reason being the compressor built into the avalon is not all that great unless upgraded, so i use plugins for compression.I did some pitch testing and here is my summary of a few pitch shifter VST, compared to Polar as well. The way i look at it is say your werking on some nice preamps, ie the avalon 727 wich i use, its got the compressor and eq immediately after the amplification and thats how most class A amplifiers are set up so how could they expect you to not use Class a eqs and compressors just to run a pitch shifter and make u do all that extra work. Effect plug-ins should be placed after GSnap in the signal chain.īut they say effect plug-ins, which compressors and gates are not imo. For example, a clean, mono vocal recording, without excessive noise or reverb. It can be used subtly to correct the pitch of a vocal, or, with more extreme settings, to create a robot-voice effect.įor GSnap to work effectively, the input signal should be monophonic, at a good level and reasonably noise-free. Did some googling and this is what KVR says about their GSnap Autotune plugin ![]()
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