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Loomer Shift is a real-time diatonic granular pitch shifting and delay effect for Mac & Windows.
Shift has three independent true stereo delay lines with discrete time, feedback, pan, and volume controls. Each delay line can be set in one of three pitch shifting configurations (Chromatic, Recursive, or Diatonic) and transposed by as much as an octave up or down using both coarse semitone and finely grained cent controls.
Shift is available for Mac OS X v 10.4 and above, Windows XP and above, and Linux, in Audio Unit, VST plugin, RTAS for Pro Tools 7 and above, and Standalone application formats. Shift retails for £35.00.
Musikmesse 2009: zplane announced Elastique, a plugin for real time pitch shifting.
With a plugin interface designed to allow quick and easy interaction with all parameters, elastique is designed to be the optimal plugin for pitch shifting in film and audio conversion applications, for sound design and for adjusting pitch in recording and rehearsal sessions.
Here’s a movie of Elastique in action (.mov)
The key features of Elastique are:
- multi channel: support for synchronous pitching of up to 8 audio channels
- real time: no offline pre-analysis required
- program independence: high pitch shifting quality for all types of audio (speech, monophonic, classical music, mixes, etc.)
- phase coherence: absolute phase stability between all channels
- MIDI pitch control
- formant shifting: moving of formants independent from pitch
- factory presets: typical film pull-up/pull-down settings
Elastique pitch plugin is available for RTAS (Mac OS X, Windows) at an MSRP of $499/€449.
If you’ve used zplane Elastique, leave a comment with your thoughts!
Acon Digital Media has announced Acoustica Premium 4. The software for professional audio editing and mastering extends the standard version of the full-featured audio editor Acoustica with support for multichannel audio formats such as 5.1 and 7.1 surround. Additionally, the integrated CD burner in Acoustica Premium 4 provides control over the details of audio CD productions, such as pause lengths, index markers and CD-TEXT fields.
The processing tools from the following Acon Digital Media plug-in suites are integrated in Acoustica Premium 4, providing a simplified workflow and a large range of professional quality tools for mastering and sound design:
- Studio Clean (VST and DirectX) – Audio restoration tools, including noise reduction, click and crackle reduction, restoration of clipped audio recordings and high frequency harmonic synthesis (gives new life to dull sounding recordings).
- Studio Time (DirectX) – Professional quality time stretching and pitch shifting (transposition of key).
- Studio Necessities (VST and DirectX) – Mastering and sound design tools, including equalizer, dynamic processing, limiter, reverb, chorus, flanger, phaser and multi-tap delay.
Forever For Now have released Diatonic Shifter 2, a real-time diatonic pitch shifting and harmonizing Audio Unit effect. The plug-in lets you create vocal harmonies, diatonic guitar dubs and microtuned leads.
Features:
- real-time, low latency processing for live performances
- high precision post-processing for studio quality results
- truly diatonic in-scale pitch shifting, harmonizing and microtuning
- robust real-time pitch tracker with integrated visual pitch monitor
- four full octaves of pitch adjustment
- extensive user manual
Diatonic Shifter 2 makes use of the standard graphical interface views for Audio Units, offering a seamless integration into host applications like Logic Express and Pro, Garageband, Final Cut Express and Pro and Soundtrack.
Diatonic Shifter 2 retails for $9.99 USD.
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Digidesign is now shipping X-Form, a new high-quality AudioSuite plug-in for time compression/expansion and pitch-shifting.
According to Digidesign, X-Form delivers unparalleled time stretching and formant-correct pitch shifting to Pro Tools and Avid DNA systems to produce natural-sounding results—even at the most extreme settings—making it ideal for music production, sound design, post production, or any other application that requires time-stretch and pitch-shift processing .
“The secret to X-Form’s natural-sounding, polyphonic, time-stretching algorithm is frequency domain processing, a technology proven more effective than the ‘frame overlap’ algorithms used in most time-stretching products,” reveals Digidesign Senior Product Manager Bobby Lombardi. He adds that the goal is to “provide Pro Tools users with the highest quality time-stretching and pitch-shifting processing available in the market.”
X-Form features minimal controls to simplify the workflow, yet delivers stunning sound quality whether audio is processed from 1/8 to eight times its original length, or shifted up or down three octaves. Simply choose from two algorithms—Polyphonic or Monophonic—and let X-Form do the rest.
The Polyphonic algorithm is ideal for use on complex audio files, such as chords or an entire stereo mix. This algorithm is truly “best in breed,” and when used with the Transient Sensitivity control, allows you to compress or stretch drum loops and other percussive material without losing crucial attack transients. When working with solo instruments or vocals, simply choose the Monophonic algorithm. Each algorithm was designed to provide exceptional results capable of preserving proper stereo imaging, attack transients, and timing accuracy—even at exaggerated settings.
X-Form is available now via authorized Digidesign dealers and through the online DigiStore for $595 US MSRP.
More information is available at the Digidesign site.
