Re: vocoder pitch-shifting

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

Right. That's exactly what I meant.  More of a superimposing of tone, than 
a
tonal shift.  Good because you can get a very large frequency range without
sounding digitally munched, though vocoders have their own artifacts.  I
find them more musical to listen to.

Mark Sottilaro

"Mark S. Landman" wrote:

> On Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at 09:31 AM, David Kuckhermann wrote:
>
> > Perhaps this is a stupid question (I know not much about vocoders), but
> > how can you use a vocoder for pitchshifting?
>
> Not a stupid question at all, vocoders don't change the pitch, they
> impose formants from another source on target audio, like a fancy
> automatic set of tone controls.
>
>   BUT, if you run drums in to analyze as formants, then use a built-in
> oscillator (or any sound source with controllable pitch) as the target
> audio, you can "change the pitch" of the drums by changing the
> oscillators frequency.
>
> Not at all pitch shifting, but for things like drums, vocoding may sound
> better…
>
> Best-
>
> mark