Auburn Sounds released Inner Pitch, a pitch shifter plugin for Windows and macOS, available as a Free Edition (with limited features) and Full Edition. Enter our giveaway to win the Full Edition (three FREE copies available).
Let’s take a look at the Free Edition first.
Inner Pitch Free Edition
Inner Pitch is a pitch-shifting delay plugin. In our email exchange, the Auburn Sounds developer explained that they were striving for the highest possible pitch-shifting quality with this release.
That’s no surprise, as Auburn Sounds’ impressive Graillon 2 is still our favorite free autotune plugin.
Inner Pitch follows the same path, delivering some of the best-sounding pitch shifting I’ve heard in a plugin. Of course, things get more grainy as you push its pitch-shifting algorithms to the extremes, but the output remains impressively natural if you don’t strive too far from the original pitch.
I tested Inner Pitch on some of my vocal recordings and loved how the combination of pitch and format shifting transforms the voice while still sounding human.
It was super easy to recreate this vocal trick showcased by Jamie Lidell using Soundtoys Little Alterboy:
Of course, my vocals are absolutely nowhere near Jamie’s, but Inner Pitch did a fantastic job with pitch and formant shifting.
And using Inner Pitch on vocals is just scratching the surface.
Pitch shifting is essentially a sound designer’s magic wand, as it lets you completely transform and reshape sounds. I often use it to get unusual textures from instruments like guitars and strings.
A high-quality pitch shifter like Inner Pitch is also essential while mixing a song, as you want all recordings to be perfectly tuned to get the highest quality mix.
The feature set is quite straightforward. You can adjust the intensity of pitch shifting, formant shifting, tonal boost, and color. The plugin also features a 3-band spectral EQ for fine-tuning the tone.
What’s impressive is that all of these features are available in the Free Edition.
Inner Pitch Full Edition
The Full Edition unlocks the quality fine-tuning features, allowing you to get the highest possible pitch-shifting quality for a cost of $38.67 ($29 intro sale) and some additional CPU cycles.
Is it worth the upgrade?
If you want the highest quality of pitch processing, then yes, absolutely. It’s also a nice way to show appreciation to the developer if you’re using the Free Edition extensively in your work.
Auburn Sounds provides some of the highest-quality audio plugins on the market, and all of their products come with a powerful Free Edition.
The Giveaway
Auburn Sounds kindly provided three free copies of Inner Pitch Full Edition to three lucky BPB readers.
To enter the giveaway, answer the following question in the comments section below: What are your favorite secret (or not-so-secret) techniques for sound design?
We will randomly select and announce the lucky winner on this page on Monday, October 15th.
Good luck, everyone, and thank you for reading BPB!
The lucky winners are (drumroll, please!):
1) Sotos
2) James
3) Kahlil Smith
Congratulations! You will soon receive an email with information about your prize.
Everyone else, better luck next time and thank you for reading BPB!
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Last Updated on October 20, 2023 by Tomislav Zlatic.
