Pitch Shifter

[scius]

For those of you with Winamp and Reason:

If you listen to a song in Winamp and use the nullsoft signal processing DSP to slow the pitch down, you hear some gritty artifacts, like you would hear with a hardware sampler.

With Reason, when you change the pitch of a sample you don't hear the artifacts.

I produce hip-hop and would like to get that dirty sound...any suggestions?

P.S. I usually mix my songs down in Cubase and I've tried using Steinberg's BitCrusher...sounds like shit in my opinion.

[jasonsantiago]

im not sure how to get that gritty sound in real-time with some sort of VST plug, but if i understand you correctly, i do know how to achieve it using non real-time processing. It can be done using Windows sound recorder or Cooledit pro, or any wave editing prog that uses destructive editing and also has a slow/sped up filter.

First take the file and speed it up so its length is 1/4th of its original. Then take that file slow it down until its 4x the length. The result should sound like your original file but with a gritty/low qual effect. It sounds similar to bit crushing but distinctly different. When i say speed up /slow down i do not mean time stretching, you need to find a filter that takes the sound and treats it like a vinyl record (changing the pitch and length simotaneously). Cubase SX has a audio process called "Resample" that does this, but im not sure if it will achieve the result you want since Cubase SX does non destructive editing.

[fabi]

i think tracktion's timestretch used to be made for that task...
nah, seriously, i don't know if there is a new timestretch in T2, but the one in T1 sounded quite artifactily...