Pitch Shifter

Pitch Shifter

Pitch Shifter is a real-time pitch-shifting effect with two pitch-shifting algorithms including a range of creative controls to satisfy the sound-designer in you. Pitch Shifter combines two algorithms best suited for Voice (monophonic signals) and Music (polyphonic signals). 

 

Where to use Pitch Shifter?

Voice vs Music: Use the Tabs on the left side of the interface to access the Voice engine designed for clearly pitched monophonic signals or the Music engine designed for polyphonic and complex signals. Naturally, ignoring the design-purpose of the two modes and experimenting is always encouraged!

 

Voice Tab

 

Voice is designed to work with vocals and monophonic input with a clearly defined pitch. If a consistent pitch can't be found, the output will be unpredictable (try Music mode). The extent to which this annoys you will depend entirely on how creative and experimental you are feeling. If it does, switch to Music mode.

 

Music Tab

 

Music uses a 'granular' pitch shifting engine tuned to polyphonic input. Incoming audio is sliced into waves that can be individually looped. In this context, loops are called 'grains'. Pitch is controlled by the playback speed of the grains. A granular loop can be played faster to increase pitch or slower to lower it. Duration is controlled by repeating some grain-loops to lengthen the sound or skipping over some grains to shorten it. For example, playing every grain-loop twice would double the length. In this way pitch and duration are controlled independently. For the most natural and smooth sound, there must be a good correspondence between the length of the grain-loop and the wave-length of the input audio (its pitch). Normally perfection is achieved when the grain loop-length is exactly one wave-length of the audio's pitch. However, mismatches can be somewhat compensated, by cross-fading grain boundaries to smooth discontinuities when one grain stops early and the next begins. NOTE: Did you really need that explanation? Understanding how it works can help you to identify why the algorithm may have problems pitching certain audio signals. However, in the end, your task is to mess with the knobs until you like what you hear.

 

 

System requirements

• FL Studio version 20.9.0 registration or higher needed. Part of All Plugins Edition, or sold separately. 
• Pitch Shifter works inside FL Studio both under Windows and macOS
• General FL Studio system requirements apply

VST plugin

• ATTENTION: NO VST version available at this time