TIP: Free pitch plug-in software comes with Tiger

[Per Boysen <per@boysen.se>]

Just a tip:

If you use software on a Mac for looping there is a nice pitch plug- 
in AU that comes bundled when upgrading the OS to Tiger. It can pitch  
up or down two octaves and looks very useful for looping. If you for  
example run a host application like Live or Numerology that gives  
easy access to plug-in parameters you can set up a foot pedal with  
different buttons for different transposing of loops. I guess this is  
most useful for bass sound because the sonic degrading, that always  
comes with changing the pitch of audio, doesn't matter that much in  
low frequencies.

My fav application of this new AU pitch plug-in is to put a looping  
plug-in first on a track (Lexicon PSP42 or Augustus Loop) and then  
put the Pitch plug-in after the looper. Then record a loop and pitch  
it through different chord changes etc. You can already transpose a  
spinning Augustus Loop by sending it midi notes, but that's different  
because it also changes the speed of the loop, not only the pitch. So  
by combining these two loop transposing technologies you may set up a  
pretty nicel looping rig on a Mac that will take you quite far by  
juggling only two live loops.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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