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Live Guitar Stereo Pitch Shift

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The Live Guitar Stereo Pitch Shift board in the WaveWarp DrawingBoard
Live Guitar Stereo Pitch Shift — the board as it opens in the WaveWarp DrawingBoard.

What it does

Live Guitar Stereo Pitch Shift

Demonstrates the use of WaveWarp's live input functionality. Plug an electric guitar (or any other audio source!) into the "input" of your soundcard and hit "Play". You will experience the bizarre (and fun!) effect created by the Simple Pitch Shifter which uses a simple algorithm based on circular buffers. This straightforward method does not allow the pitch of the material to be controlled independently of the time, hence the "helium effect" which is especially evident for large pitch shift ratios. For plucked guitar notes, this effect can be very useful for making strange manipulations. By adjusting the pitch shift ratios to be slightly different for each channel, the stereo space is greatly enhanced.

Experiment with all settings and with different input sources (especially live vocals)!

Effects used

4 blocks 4 connections
In WaveWarp, 1998

How the original documented it

Live Guitar Stereo Pitch Shift Demonstrates the use of WaveWarp's live input functionality. Plug an electric guitar (or any other audio source!) into the "input" of your soundcard and hit "Play". You will experience the bizarre (and fun!) effect created by the Simple Pitch Shifter which uses a simple algorithm based on circular buffers. This straightforward method does not allow the pitch of the material to be controlled independently of the time, hence the "helium effect" which is especially evident for large pitch shift ratios. For plucked guitar notes, this effect can be very useful for making strange manipulations. By adjusting the pitch shift ratios to be slightly different for each channel, the stereo space is greatly enhanced. Experiment with all settings and with different input sources (especially live vocals)!

Components used (1998)

Simple Pitch ShifterOutput Stereo WAVE DriverZipperInput Single-Mono WAVE Driver