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Artifacts associated with automation of PShift II

Hi all, I've done quite a bit of searching but am unable to find my answer here thus far. I'm wondering if someone can help me with an issue I'm having.

I am automating the PShift II plugin, to bend some guitars, by 50cents in and out. Every time, the automation gets back to 0 cents from 50, it makes a ticking noise. This noise is also present when I bounce the track down. Sometimes it goes away for a little bit when I adjust where the node is sitting, but it usually comes back.

Has anyone here ever experienced this, and/or can anyone offer a solution? I can remember having this problem years ago in PC land, but I just chalked it up to a crappy computer...

TIA.

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.1), 4GB ram

Posted on Oct 27, 2009 7:08 PM

19 replies

jnny_jawknee Author

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Oct 28, 2009 2:05 PM in response to bill borez

ok. so a couple of people got me thinking.

if arriving at 0 cents is the problem, then if 0 cents is eliminated, then the problem should be eliminated right?

what I've done, is (as suggested by jseet), run two PShiftII plugins.
The first one takes care of the bending automation. However, wherever the automation was 0 cents before, I have changed it to -1cents. So now the bend is only 49cents.

The second one is set to +1 cent static. To make the -1 of the other 0.

The good news is that it works perfectly.

Thanks to everyone who gave suggestions. I will definitely file away bill's technique, as I never know when I'm going to need to use it.

bill borez

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Oct 28, 2009 2:17 PM in response to jnny_jawknee

Ahh interesting, I'll give that a whirl myself sometime as I'd stopped using the Pitchshifter II with automation because of its noise a while ago in L8.

jseet

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Oct 28, 2009 3:50 PM in response to jnny_jawknee

That's just bent.

Eriksimon

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Oct 29, 2009 5:29 AM in response to bill borez

Doesn't Quikquak make a realtime pitchbend plugin?

(goes to KVR...)

yep, it seems so:
on
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/3129.html
it says:

"It has a range of two semi-tones to two octaves, which gives you control from subtle tuning changes to wild swings of pitch. The user pointer acts as a desired pitch change, and the actual pitch is produced by smoothing and inertia controls. Pitchwheel moves towards the desired pitch at sample accuracy, enabling nice transitions without stepping."

...have now downloaded the Demo. If it suks or doesn't work, I'll report back.

regards, Erik.

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Artifacts associated with automation of PShift II