
I also find detune doesn't make much of a difference. I also find making multiples of the same sample in the drum rack then changing the pitch of each individually, treating them like different drums, to be complicated and it sort of, I dunno, makes it less fun or throws me off my game. I'm fine with using envelopes to do it, I just don't want to have to put my kicks or hats on separate track every time. Now, is there any way of changing the pitch of samples I've loaded into a drum rack, be it through a Sampler, Simpler, or just directly in? Even without midi enabled, it makes your entire vocal a single note, which can be. Robot Mode this lets you control your vocal with MIDI. Quantize is the more usual auto tune hard pitching algorithms, that give you the trap and hip hop hard-tune sound. You'll need to enable the Send on the Return track manually as Live disables them to prevent feedback disasters.My typical drum track is a drum machine with a Sampler on each of the pads, then I put my samples into the sampler, not onto the pad. Transpose lets you pitch the entire vocal up and down + and 12 semitones.

Set the Delay's feedback to 0% and use Live's own feedback routing to send the Return Track back to itself.

There are six possible waveform shapes, and the amount of modulation applied to the Frequency shifting is controlled by the Amount knob. Featuring SoundShifter for time stretching and pitch shifting, Waves Tune for pitch correction, and UltraPitch for harmonization, Waves pitch & time plugins are in a class all their own. On the left side of the interface are the LFO controls. There is also a Drive button which enables a distortion effect, although this is only available in Ring Modulation mode. There's a toggle button to change from pitch shifting to ring modulation and a 'Wide' button to create a stereo effect by inverting the Spread value in one channel so that one channel is shifted up, whilst the other is shifted down.

There are Coarse and Fine knobs to set the amount of frequency shift. The Frequency Shifter device is super simple. The Frequency Shifter is a great sound design tool. Some describe the sound as metallic or similar to ring modulation. Every frequency within the signal is shifted by the same amount and this means that the harmonic relationships within the signal are broken, resulting in a very different sound. Frequency Shifting works by moving each frequency in a signal by a set amount. Pitch shifting is the classic sound of speeding up or slowing down a tape, or playing a sample away from its root note in a sampler.įrequency Shifting: Again, this involves changing the frequency content of a signal, but in a very different way. To pitch shift a signal by +1 octave, we multiply each frequency by two, thereby preserving the harmonic relationships within the signal. This is done by multiplying or dividing all the frequencies within the signal. Pitch Shifting: Shifts the incoming signal by musical intervals. Often confused, and similar in nature, it's worth knowing the difference between Pitch Shifting and Frequency Shifting. It's easily overlooked but can be a powerhouse when it comes to sound design.

The Frequency Shifter is a small, innocuous looking device from the standard Ableton Live Library.
