Hello!
I’m new here, and very new to Gig Performer (just a few days). It has given me a huge creative boost already and I’m planning to perform live with it in the spring, here in London.
My setup so far is a trumpet, a mic, a Macbook Air, an Apollo Twin X audio interface, a Morningstar MC6 Pro with two expression pedals and a sustain pedal connected to it, and an Akai MPK mini.
I’m running around inside GP like a kid in a sweetshop and usually the things I try just don’t work. However, enough do to keep me very excited and keen to explore and make lots of racks, rigs, whatever they are called.
Today’s experiment was great fun. The MPK plays Organ notes (Organteq) and this goes through A Raum reverb which has a fantastic “freeze” function. My sustain pedal works the freeze - and it feels a little like using the sustain pedal of a huge piano. I can hit an organ note or a chord and then suspend it for as long as I like by capturing the reverb with the sustain pedal.
The trumpet goes to a Kilohearts pitch shift plugin and I have the pitch mapped to one of my expression pedals.
I can play the organ and the trumpet simultaneously, and my trumpet can have a duo partner floating around two octaves below or two octaves above depending on the angle of my foot expression pedal.
Great! But…. I would like to find a way to give the pedal finer control. Currently it’s a wild swing over the whole four octaves range (it’s very dramatic) and I don’t know if there’s a way to make it move in semitone steps and limit the range to one octave each way.
Anyone here with any suggestions?
Also, the MC6Pro is quite baffling. I’d love to find some tutorials about how best to use it with Gig Performer.
Welcome to GP! How are you controlling the pitch with the expression pedal? Hopefully via a widget, not directly with cc’s inside the plug-in. If so, look at the value curve envelope in widget edit mode. You can shape the curve to make it scale the way you want.
Somewhat off topic: If I remember it correctly: the Kilohearts pitch shift plugin introduces some extra latency (might be dependent on the settings). Just FYI
Btw: welcome to the forum. I think you’ll find the community helpful
Thanks Frank.
Yes, it does, but not much. I’ve tried a few in GP and the worst one is, sadly, the Pitch module in Shaperbox.
Transit 2 seems good - and a lot of fun - but I haven’t quite got the hang of using it yet. Having a bunch of KH pitch shifters in a Snapheap is highly controllable, I find.
I like Meldaproduction’s pitch shifting. You can dial in the formants. Sounds the most natural I’ve heard. It’s in a few of their plug-ins. I use the MharmonizerMB.
Oh, great. Maybe you can present us with your use case and showcase how you use this pitch shfting feature?
We didn’t have much discussion about this plugin in the forum.
Sure. As with all Melda’s plugins, the customizations are amazing (if you like tweaking and options) or overwhelming (if you don’t) LOL. In my use case, I use the same expression pedal to control 5 different pitch/harmony settings. I use 5 radio buttons to switch between these options. Sometimes the pitch shift is 0 to 12, other times -12 to +12 or -7 to -5 etc… The formants can be programmed to not only be at a certain (static) point, but change with the pedal movement. So one value for pitches closer to original value and change progressively as the pitch goes up. This is also true for the pitch amout, wet/dry signal output level and pretty much whatever else you can think of. This is what’s great about Melda! It really tweaks to whatever you want.
The green keys on the keyboard indicate what the pitch interval is. C0 represents the original note (doesn’t mean its literally C0). You turn other keys on for other intevals and blend them, or use them exclusively like when you pitch shift a note from 0 to 12 (octave up), you probably don’t want to hear the original + the pitched note, only the pitched note by itself.
