CrispyTuner - Autotune/pitch shifter (Crazy good and crazy cheap)

[jonalyn]

i do have wavetune and don't use it so much....so i think cripsytuner is not something i need.

[BuddySpencer]

Compared to Waves Real Tune, Autotune Pro and Slate MetaTune I like Crispytuner the most. I really like the controls and sound - it's very easy to get the sound you want from it and it's super versatile. Also I don't think you can say that the development stagnated since PA bought it since it was just released 3 months ago in July.

[Ploki]

PA bought in july 2020 and literally nothing except filters were added, and none of the things original dev said he had planned.

Its not as robust as autotune and has more latency.

Otherwise its fine, is still use the original crispy version.

[oboemaroni]

I got the bx crisptuner plug a couple of weeks ago, seemed to be working fine when mixing in Ableton using graphic view to manually tune a track, but when I mixed down the whole thing was screwed up, with notes all over the place. I'm wondering if this is caused by latency compensation as it sounded like it was possibly the tuning data being knocked out of time with the audio - I didn't put crispytuner as the first plugin in the chain as I use a modeling mic and you have to put the plugin for that first, so wondering if this is throwing things off. Have emailed PA support but haven't had much help from them in the past with tech issues, so was wondering if anyone else had experienced the same issue...

[Ploki]

unless it's Sphere or PolarDesigner by austrian audio (i.e. if it's slate or UA) it's just a static IR so you can safely put it after tuning

[oboemaroni]

Thanks, it is a sphere I'm using, Townsend advise that you can use autotune before their vst but it needs the stereo signal to be passed through, whereas crispytuner collapses the signal to mono, so looks like they're basically incompatible.

[Ploki]

Yeah no go, because if you use Dual-mono setup with autotune or crispy it's not phase-coherent so Sphere plugin won't work correctly anymore.

I still use the original non-bx version but i never use the graphic mode unfortunately as i have melodyne for that, so i didn't experience what you have.

[Plugintester]

I made a funny video about autotune effect in a flamenco style song. For me it is a funny effect and I did not use Antares

[Ploki]

Wow bizarre af

[DavidAntagon]

CrispyTuner ONLY has mono support, and the CrispyTuner developer pretty much confirmed to me that CrispyTuner will never get stereo support.

it's weird, because ALL of the other Monophonic Real-Time Auto-Tune VST's on the market have stereo support.

I am just letting everyone know about this, just in case that you need stereo support for your mixes, songs, etc and you're unaware of CrispyTuner ONLY having mono support.

This is the response from the CrispyTuner developer about why CrispyTuner ONLY has mono support, and why it doesn't have stereo support.

Hey, this is expected behaviour - the CrispyTuner takes the sum of all input channels and then applies the effect. This is the same behaviour as that of comparable software (such as Waves Tune Real-Time). This is required because the pitch correction algorithm used only works on monophonic signals, which a stereo signal isn't.

The only real option you have would be to tune both channels individually (like a dual-mono effect), but in general that's not desirable.
Why do you need to tune a stereo file in first place?

The big question here is the same that the dev made you... Why and for what do you need stereo in this case? Guitars, vocals, all are mono input signals, it's the natural source of any audio, stereo is about processing... And really I´m wondering what you need Pitch Correction on stereo signal?

[Ploki]

The big question here is the same that the dev made you... Why and for what do you need stereo in this case? Guitars, vocals, all are mono input signals, it's the natural source of any audio, stereo is about processing... And really I´m wondering what you need Pitch Correction on stereo signal?

Nearly every acoustic guitar recording is dual-miced and stereo.
You can record vocals stereo or you can record them with two mics and combine them (and to do so you need phase-locked stereo processing. melodyne does it)

You can record electric guitars stereo (dual-out wirings, nothing spectacular)

Natural source of any audio -in a space- is not mono, it's the source + position in space, which you generally record with two microphones for stereo playback.

If you only do stereo with processing you're doing it wrong.

(i'm not OP and i don't usually need this, but your claim was bold and wrong)