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Pitch Shifter [PIT]
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Fractal Audio’s Intelligent Maximum-Likelihood Adaptive Real-Time (IMART) technology provides superb mono or
polyphonic pitch shifting. Pitch shift technology creates an incredible range of effects, from shimmering, detune-
based chorus to one-guitar orchestrations of complex harmony, to dive-bombing whammy pedals, and beyond.
The Axe-Fx II
Pitch Shifter
gives you all of these sounds and many more, with the following modes of operation:
Detune
– Creates chorus sounds with up to two detuned copies of the original signal.
Fixed Harmony
– Shifts two voices by a constant amount.
Intelligent Harmony
– Shifts two voices to another note in the selected key/scale.
Octave Divider
– Simulates the octave down effects of classic analog stomp effects.
Classic Whammy
– Shifts note(s) up and/or down 1-2 octaves with a control that can be assigned to a
pedal or other controller.
Advanced Whammy
– Extends the Classic Whammy with custom range /- 2 octaves.
Crystals
– Creates exotic “crystal” shifting with long splice times and optional reverse.
Arpeggiator
– Shifts the pitch with a 16-step sequencer to create arpeggios or phrases from single notes.
Custom Shifter
– Employs “User Scales”
for totally custom intelligent shifting.
Auto Pitch
– Turn your guitar or voice into Cher or T-Pain. Actually, please don’t…we’ve
removed
the Axe-
Fx Ultra’s “Auto Pitch” algorithm from the Axe-Fx II ;)
Each Axe-Fx II preset can use two fully independent
Pitch Shifter
blocks.
The
Pitch
block supports X/Y Switching. See p.
Common Parameters
The first menu page has several common parameters for the pitch block.
TYPE
– Sets the sub-algorithm to use.
INGAIN
– Sets the input level to the block for “Aux Send” type control even when the block is in series.
LOCUT FREQ, HICUT FREQ
– Sets the cutoff frequency of hi-and lowpass filters at the output of the pitch
shifter(s). Note that when the “OCTAVE DIV” type is selected, these controls have no effect.
PITCH SOURCE
– The Pitch Shifter allows you to select a source for the shifter to use when making pitch
calculations.
GLOBAL – In this mode, the pitch information comes from the global pitch detector connected directly to
the main inputs (L+R summed). The signal into this detector is unaffected by other effects in the current
preset and is usually the best choice for single note usage.
LOCAL – In this mode the pitch information is detected and analyzed at the input of the pitch block. This
mode allows the detector to track the pitch of a delay or effect tail even after you’ve stopped playing. This
mode also considers the internal feedback of the Pitch Block when calculating pitch.
