Eventide PitchFactor

Hi Guys, All the algs in PitchFactor handle guitar chords pretty well except Synthonizer which is a mono-synth and Octaver which is based on old school analog octavers which are by definition monophonic. The one caveat is that complex chords can sometimes confuse the pitch tracking in Diatonic and Quadravox. It works pretty well for most common chords, but if your trying to screw it up, you can. The best solution for this is to use HarModulator or PitchFlex which can be explicitly set to a given interval (eg. m3rd, M3rd, ...). We did a fair amount of work improving the pitch tracking for this product and are currently porting that to the H8000 and Eclipse. It would be fair to say this product has the best pitch tracking of anything we've ever released.
Dan Gillespie
Sr. DSP Engineer

Hi Again,

My gut reaction would be to say that the PitchFactor will have Eventide style effects, but I'll try to answer the question more directly.

Quadravox will allow you to do -1 octave, +1 octave, and +2 octaves simultaneously; PitchFlex will allow you to do 2 voices of any of the above combinations and add a filter, and HarModulator will allow you to do 2 voices of the above combinations with detune. These effects should all do chords but will sound more like pitch shifted guitar, alternatively synthonizer can be set up to do a very convincing organ sound, but it is monphonic.

So it can do many of the things the POG can do, however it's not an attempt to emulate or copy that pedal. It's much more bringing the things we know how to do best into a stompbox and maybe even to get artistic and push the envelope a little bit.

I hope that answers your question, if you have a more specific setting you're looking for I can try to answer that for you.

PS. I think Nick's previous answer was in regard to the A440 tuning thing, we just added it to our feature request list and should be able to get it in there.

Dan Gillespie
Sr. DSP Engineer

Hi Guys, All the algs in PitchFactor handle guitar chords pretty well except Synthonizer which is a mono-synth and Octaver which is based on old school analog octavers which are by definition monophonic.

Je pense que le PitchFactor sera plutôt orienté Harmonizer, comme sur les racks de la marque.

c'est à dire que la whammy a parfois du mal sur les accords, ça lui donne son charme aussi, ça peut la faire sonner façon ring mod.

Et d'après ce qu'ils disent "la ptich factor se débrouille plutot bien avec les accords A PART le synthonizer et l'octaveur"

ça veut dire quoi ?

Ben que le point fort de la machine sera son Harmonizer (sous entendu intelligent), car c'est le point fort des multi effets Eventide. C'est un peut leur domaine de prédilection, comme la reverb l'est pour Lexicon, par exemple. Enfin, ce n'est que mon avis . A prendre comme une éventualité hypothétique .

sauf que de la quinte et de la tierce en analog j'ai toujours entendu dire que c'était impossible.

Et pour l'octavia ce serait un bricolage qui donnerait un semblant d'octave, c'est plutot une fuzz, mais pas aussi propre qu'un vrai octaveur au sens strict.