Re: octave pitch shifting down?

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On 18 aug 2007, at 16.21, midifriedchicken@comcast.net wrote:
> Are there any plug in versions that are light on cpu that work well?


If my memory serves me correctly you are looking for OS X format plug- 
ins? (think I saw some posts by you on the SooperLooper list  
earlier). Then you should already have the excellent free Apple plug- 
ins on your computer! Check out the "AU Pitch". That's the one I  
prefer for pitch-shifting. With todays version of OS X these free  
plug-ins sound a lot better and are a lot less CPU intensive compared  
to when they first were released as a Tiger bundle. Go "AU Plug-ins /  
Apple / etc etc ".

Michael Norris Soundmagicspectral suit is also free, but IMHO not  
quite as good as Apple for pitching. They are also free though, and  
have some remarkably cool granular drone plug-ins (free alternative  
to RiverRun, for those who are into that).

You are asking if they "work well", but that's impossible to answer.  
As all software real-time pitchers there is a longer latency than in  
some hardware pitching devises. As for myself I'm finding the Apple  
plug-in useful for adding a low fifth or octave to fatten up my  
sound. But I don't like it for "bass lines" though. I'd rather make  
bass lines by pitching the entire loop up one octave, play a bass  
line in double speed and then pitch back the loop to normal speed and  
have the added layer play back one octave lower than my real-time  
instrument.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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