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Re: max/msp vs. eventide



my question is this: what is it that eventide knows that the entire vst world has yet to discover?  surely my computer has more raw processing power than the eclipse.  aside from chopitch, i've yet to find a vst that can get close to the speed and accuracy of eventide's algorithms. 

- jim

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:35 AM, todd reynolds <toddreyn@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Gents.

Nice encapsulation of the Max/MSP pitch-shifting world, Stefan!  

It's been my experience that the computer just cannot process fast enough yet to do real-time Pitch-Shifting, fft or otherwise.  I still use only my Eventide Orville when I really need that, and it works fine, though I still 'feel' the tiniest bit of latency.  I have no experience with the Eclipse, though our good friend Erdem does.

However, I just recently purchased an Eventide Pitch Factor because I just can't travel with that Orville anymore, and I am very pleasantly surprised.  It's solved all my issues and is in general a great box. 

That said, I know that in the Max/MSP world algorithms are in continual process and I'd not be surprised if real good shifting comes into being relatively soon.  As it is, Puremagnetik has written some Max for Live patches which include a real time pitch shifter which, if you're into a slightly colored sound, doesn't work bad at all, in fact, it sounds pretty interesting!  (that whole M4L pack is worth my investment, not bad, $40 bucks.)

I hope that contributes something to the conversation!  Cheers, everyone.