need some recommendations on a simple pitch shifter for that classic pitch shift feel for use on a driving synth or bassline.

Madshifta does it for me:

http://bram.smartelectronix.com/

I wish it had an lfo, but it ought to serve your purposes just fine as is....

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http://www.kvr-vst.com/get/781.html

...this one too (...in his own way !)

Good luck !

And Haematohm by OhmForce is definitely worth checking out (it's not a true pitch shifter - it's a frequency shifter) but in smaller doses I find it works as well if not better than a straight pitch shifter. A few days back I finished off a track with some Haematohm on a female vocal line - got it to sound like multitracking vocal dubs with female and male parts - very impressive. You have to use small amounts of shift for it to work though. Then you can push it a little further and it does all sorts of weirdness with the delays and the LFO going.

Used to be available for a tenner - now more sensibly priced but worth the investment. You can get robotised voices, ascending/descending pitched delays, put it on a subgroup or a full mix on a breakdown and it can do great things without as much of the artifacts associated with all but the most expensive pitch shifters.

You might like to give this a try:

http://www.kvr-vst.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=49379

Cheers

You might want try out
PitchShift Multiband or PitchWorks DX.
delaydots.com