Soundtoys UltraTools 2.4 for HD|Accel The Ultimate Time, Pitch and Effects Bundle

Now Includes two Professional Producer libraries with over 70 new remix, guitar and mixdown presets for SoundBlender

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With SPEED, the power to transform tempo and pitch of almost any source imaginable is now at your fingertips, with unprecedented ease-of-use and unparalleled audio quality. SPEED uses an entirely new approach to time and pitch modification that now makes it possible to transform single instruments and even entire mixes without the distortion that is usually introduced by these processes.

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Have you ever wanted to use a loop recorded at 100 BPM in a song that's at 120 BPM? Have you ever needed to transpose an entire mix to a new key? If you've tried to do any of these things with existing tools on the market, you've probably experienced the mix-shredding results that conventional pitch change and time compression technology produce when confronted with anything more complicated than an isolated vocal or instrumental part.

After intensive research and development, Wave Mechanics has now solved these problems, and has built this technology into their newest DSP plug-in for the ProTools platform – SPEED.

With SPEED, the power to transform tempo and pitch of almost any source imaginable is now at your fingertips, with unprecedented ease-of-use and unparalleled audio quality. SPEED uses an entirely new approach to time and pitch modification that now makes it possible to transform single instruments and even entire mixes without the distortion that is usually introduced by these processes. Even stereo mixes can be processed with perfect phase alignment. Whether it's squeezing a 35-second commercial into a 30-second spot, matching the tempo of a rhythmic loop, or transposing an entire mix, SPEED is the ultimate tool for time and pitch modification.

SPEED is now available as a plug-in for ProTools HD|Accel, HD, Mix, Digi-001, Digi-002, Mbox, and any other system that supports the Digidesign AudioSuite plug-in format.

Speed Specifications

Tempo Modification Range................50 to 200 percent

Pitch Modification Range...................-1200 to 1200 cents

Simple Control Panel

SPEED offers three different control panels. The simplest, shown here, make adjusting tempo and pitch as easy as a twist of the knob. No obscure parameter adjustments - just dial in the amount of tempo and pitch change you'd like, press process and you're done! The tempo and pitch can be adjusted in different units (percentage of tempo, length, pitch in semitones, cents, or frequency ratio), easily selected by clicking on the small triangles next to the Tempo and Pitch controls.

With SPEED, you can also preview the tempo and pitch change in real-time (on a fast enough computer), before committing the changes to disk.

Graphical Control Panel

When we first demonstrated SPEED at the NAMM conference in LA, the most popular request was for some way of creating a time-varying tempo change. We agreed that this would be a useful feature, but we also wanted to put a creative spin on this. Introducing the SPEED's unique Graphical tempo and pitch change control panel. Want to create an accelerando on a full music mix? No problem - just draw one in. The graph editing works just like ProTools automation, with complete control over pitch and time.You can even create a cool special effect in the graph mode, and save it as a preset!

The combination of SPEED's amazing quality and the innovative graph mode make this a truly mind-blowing product!

Calculator Control Panel

When it's time to get some real work done, SPEED's Calculator control panel is an indispensable tool. This control panel is designed to make it easy to transform almost any tempo, length, or musical key to any other.

Need to shorten a 33.87 second region to exactly 30 seconds? No problem, just type in the desired region length, and SPEED automatically calculates the amount of time compression needed. Press process, and you're done. Need to change a 100BPM loop to 120 BPM, and change key from G to F? No problem. Or change a piano track that wasn't tuned to A440 back to standard tuning? All of this is easy with SPEED.
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The first plug-in to accomplish natural-sounding pitch-shifting in real-time, PurePitch has become a standard for its high-quality pitch alteration and unique vocal-processing effects.

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Using PurePitch, you can easily create realistic harmony parts from a lead vocal or instrument, deepen a vocal part without changing it's pitch, or add vibrato to a flat performance. For voice-over work, PurePitch can be used to alter the formants and pitch inflections of a speaker, producing subtle character alterations, or more extreme gender and species morphing effects. PurePitch includes over 50 preset patches for music production, sound design, and post-production. And it's only available for Digidesign's TDM hardware system...

Control Pitch and Formants Independently

The formant knob on PurePitch is something that needs to be heard to be believed. In small amounts, create alter-ego singers and subtle double-track effects. Or instantly morph vocal character from evil aliens to small furry animals and back again. This mind-blowing effect can even be modulated with the built-in LFO! The pitch and formant sliders make it easy to create radical vocal sounds perfect for game designers, animated characters or sound design.

Modulation

With multi-waveform modulation of pitch, formant, and amplitude, PurePitch can create effects that range from subtle chorus and doubling to extreme sonic mutilations.

Expression

PurePitch's exclusive expression processor modifies the pitch inflections of a vocal signal, enabling the emotional content of dialogue tracks to be modulated, in subtle, or not-so-subtle amounts.

Vocal Harmonizing

Use PurePitch's on-screen keyboard to create musically useful harmony vocals - without another singer. All harmony intervals can be easily recorded and edited using ProTools' automation.

Create Bizarre, Unheard-of Effects

With its built-in digital delays, multi-waveform LFO, and pitch, formant and amplitude modulation, PurePitch is a veritable cornucopia of new and fantastic designer sounds. But you don't need to be a sound designer to use PurePitch - we've included dozens of hand-crafted effects.

Totally Real-Time

PurePitch is totally real-time - grab a knob, and hear the effect change instantly!

Presets

PurePitch comes bundled with over 50 unique effect presets, and they cover a lot more ground than simple transposition and harmonizing. Here's a sampling of what PurePitch can do:

Chorus and Doubling

Slight amounts of pitch shift and formant alteration are by far the best way to create realistic doubling and chorus effects. Variations of this incredibly useful effect are created with the built-in LFO and delay line.

 

Dialogue Enhancement

The expression processor of PurePitch can modify the pitch envelope, similar to what a compressor does to the level of a signal. This enables the emotional content of dialogue tracks to be modulated, in either subtle or not-so-subtle amounts.

 

Spaced Out

Long delays, lots of feedback, and pitch, formant and amplitude modulation are the raw material for some funky, spacey, and beautiful effects.

 

Vocal Transforms

Various combinations of pitch and formant manipulation are used to create some radical vocal transformations. Perfect for game designers, animated characters, and sound design.

 

Weird and Wild

With PurePitch, we allow you to take effects processing to the extreme - and that's just what this set of presets is all about!

 

Specifications

  • One-hundred percent real-time. No waiting!
  • Full-bandwidth, 24-bit processing.
  • No limit on the number of instantiations
  • Uses one DSP chip for each channel of pitch processing.
  • Compatible with NuBus and PCI ProTools systems.
  • Automation of all parameters (with ProTools 4.0 or later).
  • Works on Mac OS 9, Mac OS X and Windows XP
  • Supports ProTools HD at up to 96K

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PitchDoctor combines an extraordinarily smooth pitch-shifter with an advanced intelligent pitch analyzer to create the ultimate pitch correction tool.

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When an out-of-tune performance is a problem, PitchDoctor is nothing less than a session-saving miracle. Simply enter the desired key and scale, and Pitch Doctor automatically adjusts the intonation of any out-of-tune notes. Because Pitch Doctor is the only intonation correction plug-in with total automation and uses PurePitch's formant-preserving quality (no chipmunks!), it's the only choice for truly challenging correction work, and it's only available for Digidesign's TDM hardware system...

Pitch Doctor's on-screen keyboard displays the musical scale used for pitch correction, allowing easy scale customization while also providing a visual readout of the detected note. Since Pitch Doctor is fully automatible, the key, scale, and even scale customizations may be changed in mid-track.

Shift Mode

Pitch Doctor is the only intonation correction plug-in with PurePitch's formant-preserving quality. This eliminates the 'chipmunk' effect common to most pitch shifters, and gives PitchDoctor a wider usable pitch shift range.

Score Control

With score control, simply specify the correct melody, and Pitch Doctor will smoothly modify your performance to bring it into perfect pitch. The score editing feature, as shown below, works seamlessly with ProTools' automation editor, allowing easy, and intuitive editing of the desired musical score.

Manual Pitch Correction Even with Pitch Doctor's automated pitch correction, it can still be useful to manually specify the pitch correction amount. Pitch Doctor provides a large, high-resolution pitch correction fader. The manual correction fader can either be used alone, or in conjunction with the automatic pitch correction mode. Like the other parameters in Pitch Doctor, the manual pitch correction data is easily editable in Pro Tools' automation window.

Using a Guide Track

Using Pitch Doctor's score generation feature, any instrument can be used to create a score to guide PitchDoctor through the pitch correction process. In the example shown here, a guitar track is used to create the correction score for the lead vocal. Once the correction score has been created, simply copy and paste the automation data from the guide track to the track to be corrected.

Specifications

  • One-hundred percent real-time. No waiting!

  • Full-bandwidth, 24-bit processing.

  • No limit on the number of instantiations

  • Uses one DSP chip for each channel of pitch processing.

  • Compatible with NuBus and PCI ProTools systems.

  • Automation of all parameters (with ProTools 4.0 or later).

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Have you ever wished for a rack full of separate effects in a single plug-in? Welcome to SoundBlender, the ultimate collection of time, pitch, filter and modulation-based effects -- all available simultaneously, and in real time. With unparalleled audio quality, our exclusive Tri-Modulation Matrix(TM), and tempo-based control, SoundBlender transforms music in ways you've only imagined.

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In many ways, SoundBlender does for effects processing what Moog did for synthesis. By combining two channels of intelligent pitch-shifting, delay, panning, amplitude modulation and resonant filtering with a powerful modulation matrix, an almost limitless variety of effects can be created. Used alone, each effect module from SoundBlender would make an incredibly useful effects processor. Used together, the effects are devastating. SoundBlender comes packaged with over 200 preset patches from simple and useful chorus, delay, filter, pitch shift and panning effects to completely unique mind-altering sonic experiences. There is nothing anywhere that sounds like SoundBlender.

Plug-Ins
SoundBlender includes two plug-ins, PitchBlender and TimeBlender. Each of these plug-ins combines a variety of high-quality signal processing modules with a unique tri-modulation matrix to create a very powerful and flexible signal modification structure.

Presets

The reality in most working studios is that time is a precious commodity, and it's often not possible to spend the time necessary to learn all the features of all of the new products in today's recording studios. Because of this, we've spent months creating over two hundred effects processing patches. We take full advantage of the preset manager that's built in to ProTools, making it easy to find the sound that you're looking for. These effects presets can be used right out of the box, or can be used as a starting point for your own fine-tuning and experimentation.

PitchBlender Presets

Arpeggiation

Arpegg-E-Ate Her - Pentatonic Arpeggios - Play with Yourself - Rainbowz In E Major - Rubberband Arps in D

Auto-Panners

AutoPan Echoes - AutoPan Sine - AutoPan Sine (BPM) - AutoPan Thick Echoes - AutoPan Thick Echoes (BPM) - Band-Pan - Double Flange Pan - Envelope Pan - Heavenly Hard Panner - Heavenly Hard Panner Envelope - Heavenly Panner - Heavenly Panner BPM - Rezo-Pan

Chorus

Attack Detune - Chorus Echos - Doppler Chorus - Double Envelope Flange - Double Flange - Envelope Chorus - Fat That's Good 4 You! - Filtered Up - MicroPitchShift - MicroPitchShift (low delay) - Multi-Chorus - Multi-Chorus Pan - QuadraTracker - Random Detune - Random Detune/Pan (trig) - SineMod Detune

Delay

Compressed Detuned Delays - Delay Bands - Delay Mod-Izer - Dist-Guitar Heaven - Echo's Away - Echo's Away (No Filter) - Gated Chor-Vibro Delay - Heavenly - Heavenly (ducked) - Highpass Delay (BPM) - Lowpass Delay (BPM) - Micro-Chorus Delay (BPM) - Multi-Chorus Delay - Multi-Chorus Delay (BPM) - Multi-Chorus - Ducked Delay (BPM) - NotchDelay (BPM) - Ping-Pong Delay (BPM) - Ping-Pong Wah (BPM) - RandomRezDelay (BPM) - Thick Echoes (BPM) - Twin Chorus Delay - Twin Chorus Delay Mixed Fdback - Twin Chorus Delays Cross-Fdback - Twin Chorus Ducked Delay - Twin Chorus Ducked Delay (BPM) - Twin Panning Delays

Filter

Auto-Wah - Bubbly (trig) - Cascade Wah (trig) - Envelope Filter 1-Band - Envelope Filter 2-Band - Envelope Filter and Delay (BPM) - Envelope Filter ChorDelay (BPM) - Envelope Filter Chorus - Envelope Filter Chorus(slow) - Envelope Filter Flange - Envelope Filter Heaven - Filter Funkitoid - Filter Funkitoid (for chords) - Filter-Flange - Funk Filter - Heavenly Envelope - Heavenly Wah-Wah - Notches - RezoSweep Downs - RezoSweep Downs (for Chords) - Triggered Wah

Harmony

Diatonic Echoes - Diatonic Fifths - Diatonic Sixths - Diatonic Thirds - Diatonic Thirds & Bass - Diatonic Triads - Diatonic Triads Inv 1 - Diatonic Triads Vibra-Echo - Diatonic Triads Vibrato - Dopey Sax Friends - High Drone Echos - High String 3rds - High String 3rds Tremolo - Mboko Harmony (trig) - Mello-Chords - Random Harmony (trig)

Multi-FX

Chorus/NotchDelay (BPM) - Chorus/NotchDelay2 (BPM) - Chorus/RezDelay (BPM) - Chorus/Telephone Delay (BPM) - Deep Throat - Deep Throat (chords) - Hip-Hopper Izer - Squarez Stepper Dubbler - Switchy-Twitchy Fifths - Switchy-Twitchy Fifths (chords) - Synth Bass from Guitar - Synth Bass from Guitar (chords) - Trem-A-Pan 5th's - Up and Down Octave Echo - Up and Down Octave Echo(chords)

Pitch Shift

Bottomizer - Fifth Dimension - Hi Octave Doubler - Hi Octave Doubler (chords) - High Drone Echos - Low Drone Echos - One Voice Pitch-Shift - Phasey Delay - Phasey Delay (for Chords) - Two Voice Pitch-Shift - UnEventidy Octave Doubler

Rhythmic

Granular Rhythm (BPM) - Rez-Rhythm (BPM) - Staccato Filters (BPM) - Stuck in the Machine (BPM)

Spacey

African Space Journey - African Space Journey BPM - Cosmo-Verb - Deep Space - Deep Space (dry) - Exotica - Exotica Too - Forbidden Planet - From Planet Gong... - Hearts of Space F - Middle-Ese - One Note Composition - Ren-ten-ten - Rezo-Drone - Rezo-Drone Less Weird - Sci-Fi - Slendr-ize - Slendro-echoes - Slendro-echoes 2 - Slendro-echoes 3 - Soft Melody Dream - Squeege Steps - Swell Thirds & Bass Ambient - The Throat Singers of Tuva

Tremolo and Vibrato

Delayed Vibrato (BPM) - Detuned Tremo-Verb - Detuned Tremolo - Ducked Heavenly Tremolo - Envelope Tremo-Verb - Stereo Vibrato - Thick Lezlie - Tremolo - Vibrato

Weird and Wild

Borderline Unstable (LOUD!!) - El Nino - Flitzerp - Interference - Nightmare Sequence - Power Tools - Randomania - The CLANGERS Soundtrack - The Zipper Effect! - Tuning In - Wobbly-Dobbley

TimeBlender Presets

Altered Ambience

Drugs Kickin' In - Enossified Delays - Gated Reverse Space - Giant Reverse Space - HipHopper Dropper - Led Sinkers - Octaves Rising - Reverse Reverb - Souped Up Spaced - Squinky Lowder - Steel Verb - Sub-Version - SubOctave SoftSpace

Crystallizers

Air Crystallizer - Crystalizer - Cyklotronic Stepper - Ducked Crystallizer - Envelope Filtered Crystallizer - Gabriel's Intro... - Gated Crystallizer - Ice 9 - Logicality - Mellow Crystallizer - OctaFifths Glitter - Overture Fast - Overture Fast Filtered - Overture Slow - Pulsing Ice - Slow Gated Crystallizer - Star Factory - Sus4th Heavens

Delays

Auto-Loop - BPM Ping-Pong Delays

Dialogue FX

Cocktail Party - More Voices inside My Head - Subway Announcer - Voices inside My Head

Modulation FX

Aliens - Metal Flanged Splice - Mod Repeat - Mod-a-Fi - Mod-a-Fi Too - Outer Steps - Screechy & Scary - Triple Mod Pong

Panning FX

Backwards Mix Panner - Circular Logic - Pan-demonium - Psycho-panner 1 - Psycho-panner 2 - Psycho-panner 3 - Random Logic

Reverse Shifters

Envelope Filter and Reverser - Half-Speed and Backwards - One-Voice Reverse Shifter - The Quaalude Zone - Two-Voice Reverse Shifter - Weirdoid

Rhythmic

Ice 9 Rhythm 1 - Ice 9 Rhythm 2 - Ice 9 Rhythm 3 - RhythmGate - Weird and Wild - Broken CD Player - I'm Tired! - Plugged-Unplugged - Possessed - WaterMod - Wiggle-Waggle

SoundBlender Specifications

Soft-Clipping

SoundBlender's unique soft-clipping algorithm smoothly saturates any signals boosted beyond the digital signal range, much like a high-quality analog processor.

BPM Control

With a master BPM control, easily synchronize delay and modulation effects to the tempo of your song. All delay settings and LFO rates have the option of BPM-based control, or independent time or frequency settings

Modulation

At the heart of SoundBlender's power are 3 modulation sources that can be mixed and routed to any of dozens of effect parameters. The modulators are very flexible with control over duty cycle, polarity, trigger thresholds, and attack and decay smoothing. The available modulation types are:

  • Sine LFO
  • Square LFO
  • Triangle LFO
  • Random Numbers
  • Random Square
  • Random Ramp
  • Triggered Sine
  • Triggered Square
  • Triggered Triangle
  • Triggered Ramp
  • Triggered Random
  • Toggle Ramp
  • Toggle Square
  • Envelope Detector
  • Gate

SideChain

The sidechain input can be used as a trigger source with any of the modulators. This is useful to synchronize triggered effects to a rhythm track, or to create ducked effects.

PitchBlender

Pitch Shifting: Two channels of very high-quality conventional pitch shifting. Pitch shift range of +/- 2 octaves. The pitch-shifters are optimized for small-interval pitch-shifting which is extremely useful in creating realistic and clean chorus and double-track effects. The output level and panning of each pitch shifter may be adjusted by on-screen faders, and smoothly modulated by the modulation matrix.

Pitch Mapping: Each pitch shifter can use intelligent pitch processing for musically useful diatonic interval transposition. PitchBlender also introduces a unique diatonic arpeggiation feature. Any modulation source may be used to control the pitch-shift interval to create interesting in-key arpeggiation and randomized harmony effects. A wide variety of western and ethnic scales are available, making it easy to create some very exotic pitch textures.

Delay: Two channels of smoothly modulatable delay. Each channel has up to 650 milliseconds of delay available. The output level and panning of each delay line may be adjusted by on-screen faders, and smoothly modulated by the modulation matrix.

Filtering: Two channels of high-quality filters. Each filter may be configured as a lowpass, highpass, bandpass or notch filter. Each filter has adjustable center frequency and resonance control. Center frequency can be modulated by the modulation matrix.

Feedback: PitchBlender has many signal flow and feedback options. This allows a wide variety of very rich signal-processing effects.

TimeBlender Specifications

Reverse Pitch Shifting: Originally created to mimic the backwards tape effects, a reverse pitch-shifter samples sections of the input audio, and plays them backwards. TimeBlender has two channels of reverse pitch-shifting. Each channel can sample segments as large a 1000 milliseconds, and can vary the playback pitch of each segment over a two-octave range.

Two channels of smoothly modulatable delay. Each channel has up to 1000 milliseconds of delay available. The output level and panning of each delay line may be adjusted by on-screen faders, and smoothly modulated by the modulation matrix.

Filtering: Two channels of high-quality filters. Each filter may be configured as a lowpass, highpass, bandpass or notch filter. Each filter has adjustable center frequency and resonance control. Center frequency can be modulated by the modulation matrix.

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