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Post by apaclin »

Hey peoples, looking for a perfect polyphonic pith shifting plugin, the one that doesn't glitch and through which you can run a whole track and it'll sound clean. Any suggestions?
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The ones that are built-in to Reaper work well for me. One client regularly shifts the key of his backing tracks by a few semitones and they come out sounding perfectly acceptable. Reaper gives you a choice of algorithms so if one doesn't seem to work then you can try another.
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James Perrett wrote: Fri Nov 26, 2021 10:23 pm The ones that are built-in to Reaper work well for me. One client regularly shifts the key of his backing tracks by a few semitones and they come out sounding perfectly acceptable. Reaper gives you a choice of algorithms so if one doesn't seem to work then you can try another.

Same in Cubase - it’s not perfect, but it’s not bad. OP - is your DAW’s native pitch-shift not working well enough?
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The Reaper one has a formant shifting feature too which massively improves it's usefulness on vocal music.
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RichardT wrote: Fri Nov 26, 2021 10:31 pm Same in Cubase - it’s not perfect, but it’s not bad. OP - is your DAW’s native pitch-shift not working well enough?

Yep, I use Logic and it's AUpitch is not perfect, for a few seconds in the beginning it produces clicks.
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Post by MarkOne »

In logic, I use flex pitch which comes out pretty artefact free. Just go to the track inspector and use the transpose option and the flex pitch engine does the rest.

In my (albeit very limited) experience Ableton Live does amazing pitch manipulation.
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