Introducing PitchNasty, which reproduces the pitch shift of the Akai sampler
Today I would like to introduce PitchNasty, which reproduces the pitch shift of Airwindows' Akai sampler.
I've used it for a while, and it sounds like glitch noise, so it seems good to use it with a short release sound.
Also, rather than relying on pitch shift, I thought it would be better to take advantage of the unique Lo-Fi feeling that you get when you raise the parameter "Feedbaclk".
Sound demo
I applied it to a drum loop and tried moving the parameters.
It goes well with the sound of the 303 series.
Overview
This is a little different.It's a sound mangler, but it doesn't bitcrush and in fact for the most part offers very high res immediacy and punchy pitch shifting, super clean and tight sounding.
But the rest of the time it's just throwing nasty loud sample glitches at audio rates.No, it's more than that.It's throwing digital junk down to notes!
And that's where PitchNasty's secret lies.This plugin brings you the essence of old school digital like Akai.Instead, there was something like time-stretching, looping tight time-cycles and overlapping them to create weird digital honks.Some people seem to crave such things, and there's a reason for that.
When I did that, I found that aside from some weird robotic overtones welded into the sound like notes, the results tended to be very punchy, direct and intense.Things like drums love to be timestretched and repitched this way. PitchNasty's start has an overall retro tone.To achieve a more retro and less DAW-like sound, the crossover is very slightly "tweaked" in a way that no retro stuff does: it adds a high frequency edge to the resulting "sound". It is one that maintains a very high presence while masking it slightly.
But PitchNasty goes above and beyond in an Airwindows-like way. It has two pitch controls, one that specifies the interval between notes in semitones, and the other that is pure pitch bend.Stacking the two allows for very high or low bends.Then there is the same control as the classic Akai way of setting the size of the sample buffer... but this control specifies the buffer as musical notes (2 octave range).If set too high, the buffer will be too small to pitch shift, if set too low it will be barely recognized as a note.And what about feedback?What about feedback that allows for more or less consistent playback?This gives you all sorts of horrible old Eventide noises, and you can use the traces to make existing sounds more complex and harmonic.
You'll also find PitchNasty clinging so tightly to the underlying sound that it can be made to act like a giant flanger or weird overtone generator. When you don't have RAM or CPU, you can only do simple and primitive things, but it becomes a really material, direct, and lively sound.The impact of the drum track is not lost.Even if you raise the pitch by 30% (or lower it with feedback) to thicken the snare, there is no fluctuation or hesitation in the sound that more advanced algorithms require.Instead, this sound is there to create a huge, violent 80's composite sound with lots of digital noise.
If you want to use this as a time stretch, open the source in the editor, change the sample rate without resampling, and apply it until you get the new pitch you want.This gives us a timestretching artifact, because it's a different angle of view of the pitch-change artifact. We hope you like PitchNasty.
Download
You can download it without registration.
You can download it by transitioning from the above link and clicking "PitchNasty.zip (615k)".
Installation
For Win, unzip and put "PitchNasty64.dll" into the VST2 folder.
Most VST2 folders are one of the following:
C:Program FilesVSTPlugIns
C \ Program Files \ Steinberg \ VST Plugins
C \ Program Files \ Steinberg \ Cubase \ VSTPlugins
C: \ Program Files \ Common Files \ VST2
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Steinberg\VST2
Summary
As a pitch shifter, there is a little noise, so I felt that it was difficult to use.
However, the Lo-Fi feeling when raising the "Feedback" parameter is unique.
Adjusting the "Dry/Wet" gave me a feeling that I couldn't get anywhere else.
(Maybe it's a bug* (in a good way), but even if you adjust "Dry/Wet", it's not a mix of Dry and Wet)
It's just a little video.
*There are times when "Dry/Wet" is in the middle and there is no sound even though it should sound dry.
(There shouldn't be any silence in a "Dry/Wet" mix.
This behavior that seems to be a problem is good for sound creation.
Most DAWs have this function for adjusting the "Dry/Wet" mix, so there should be no problem.
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