Best Pitch shifter VST ("Realtime")

[dmcsweeney]

+1 for Polychrome Dsp's Hyper Tune: https://www.polychromedsp.com/hypertune/
I'd call it the best in class for what it does.

[Aloysius]

Did someone mention Ableton? I think that shifter is made by zplane. They have some great plugins.

[pekbro]

I tend to use the eventide stuff on guitar, they've a fair number of plugins that pitch shift,
or I use HW pitch shifters of which I have a variety...

yeah, i used the eventide pitchfactor (stompbox) quite a bit. Big fun.
but i could not gel with its comparable eventide SW tools. i never use those.

in regards to Pitchshifting under realtime jamm conditions do i think is the Flux Trax outstanding.
to mention: under such conditions, when we jamm, would we take the things way above of just beeing pitchshifting alone. We start to become creative, and we would take things to places, don´t we ?

Then, under those conditions would i personally stop asking for "which one is best" ( re: pitchshiting). since reality is, each tool might be good to take you to other places, different than with that other one.

pitchfactor was for me supercool for funky resonator type of stuff,....and then jamm that shit out of it. Trax is for me extremly cool, but for other things. I´d suspect it´s the coolest so far.....i use for example it for "sound alteration" duties. The pitchshifting itself is just a tool to achive "that".

i just had some tests this morning vs. Z-plane pitch and the devious machines pitchmonster.
They for example would make the up pitched sounds do sound squawking.
quasi every pitchshiter does. Thats why i work mostly with downshfting.
But the Trax does not ( with my settings / nothing special).
Z-plane goes only +- 12 semitones. Thats not fun enough for creative uses, imho.
While i think, that the trax sounds even better....if it was just about that picthshifting alone.

Trax is so far for me the best pitchshifting tool i ever played with.
is it for sober pitchshifting ( only tested with piano so far) or is it for creative jamms.
But, It does totally not replace anything delay+PS.

i´m quite exaggerating on this one !
those $99 were VERY WELL spent bucks.
And thats not anything honeymooing. certainly not

Also:
I would like to point out: playing guitar is an entirely different task going FX, rather than playing keyboard. I think it´s important to understand that.

As a guitarist are nonne of your hands free
Controlling parameters with a footpedal can work equally well.
mostoften it does not.
It will work well with parameters that are not meant to be dialed in precisely. But might not be that well suited to jamm with parameters that are requiring at least some precision.

i like for example trax to just deadjust the pitch, and then only, or mostly, jamming with the Formant parameter alone. "That" should certainly fit a guitar/foot pedal approach nicely as well. I´d bet that trax would be fun to have it within a guitar-FX patch.


( check GP (host) for any such realtime play roundtrip patchings. check it anyway for everything "loading plugins into a host for jamm purposes"....nonne of my patches would have been possible, loading plugins into a DAW. just to say)

yea I was just talking about the guitar since others were, I play keyboards as well, have many
synths and a large modular system too, e.g. I've got plenty of pitch shifting going on.

I've never tried trax, I thought it was for stem separation, never considered it as an effect.
I will have to check it out.

[Ah_Dziz]

I just use a generic granular plugin like salty grain or a quick reaktor machine.

[Ploki]

Nuro Audio XPitch is worth looking at

[jinotsuh]

Gave it a quick demo and purchased pretty quickly. This covers my ITB Whammy/PitchFork desires. Thanks!

Guess it's a bit late now since you purchased something, but I was going to say have you tried the Kuassa stuff, Whammo Pitch Shifter, Harmonitron Harmonizer, Meloditron Smart Harmony?

I own them all, I downloaded that Hypertune and demoed it and done a side by side on a couple of little ditties I came up with while I was messing around with the Hypertune with the Harmonitron, saved me dropping the $39 on the Hypertune, but it may suit yourself better, we are all different and so much good stuff to choose from, lucky times.

I believe I demoed the Whammo and it didn't sound enough like a Whammy to me. Or maybe I just listened to videos and came to that conclusion. Honestly don't remember. There's a certain kind of bad to the pitch shifting in the Whammy, and to a slightly lesser extent the EH Pitchfork, that I thought Hypertune got in the ballpark of. Plus, it was only $19 for me.

I'll have to have another look at it.