Are software pitch correctors and pitch shifters overpriced?

[Lunch Money]

The thing about something like GSnap is that it simply won't ever produce natural results without careful attention. In "automatic" mode, it will of course sound like an automatic pitch-corrector, ie., artificial.

But using its MIDI capabilities, and working with source material that's close to pitch in the first place, you can get very transparent results.

That said, I tend to stick it in automatic mode and just use a slow attack. I'm too lazy for all the manual work involved when only a handful of people ever listen to my stuff.

Greg

[shamann]

apparently it was never available and according to what it says in the email, hybridshift is probably the same code as in omnivox. try searching some p2p networks, i found a copy of omnivox on gnutella (sometimes morons share their entire disk, and you can get all kinds of other goodies too) but i didnt download it. i'm also aware of some other more personal sources you can get it from, if it comes down to that.

i'm quite certain you'll be able to grab a copy on a filesharing network though. i suppose that may be classified as 'warez' or something, i'm not sure. it doesnt feel much like warez to me, and from a technical-legal point of view, it isnt illegal to distribute copies either. the best they could do would be to sue you for damages, if they could prove you ruined their commercial version's chances of sales. the problem is they dont even have a commercial version, so, you know.

dont ask me for a copy though, i dont personally have one.

Yeah, omnivox was never really available. You had to ask the programmer for a copy and he emailed it to you. It did come with a license text that said re-distribution was forbidden, so it would be illegal to share it, but of course nearly impossible to enforce.

The TC Helicon HybridShift thing and omnivox are both probably based on the same method, which is PSOLA.

Praat, the free voice synthesizer/analyzer also uses PSOLA, should be possible to get really good results with it (only mono if I remember right).

http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/

[vista]

... i don't think that
28 bucks for AKAI PITCHRIGHT
are overpriced !

http://www.thomann.de/thoiw2_akai_pitch ... dinfo.html

[fabi]

... i don't think that
28 bucks for AKAI PITCHRIGHT
are overpriced !

http://www.thomann.de/thoiw2_akai_pitch ... dinfo.html

hm, doesn't seem to be in the kvr database, yet. anyone know this one? looks like gnsap, wouldn't be surprised if gsnap was better sound-wise.