#Zynaptiq pitchmap crackling software#

If i had the space I'd buy up all these cheap VP9000s that fools are selling on ebay and make the 'marshall stack' of VP9000s to end all wars.

#Zynaptiq pitchmap crackling software#

There is still no software that does it, and if you are into sampling of any sort, electronic music, hip hop etc, you are really missing a trick if you don't have one of the Variphrase boxes/synths.Д«TW, a common misconception about Roland's variphrase is that they are hardware granular samplers - wrong, they are additive synthesizers that create a high resolution spectral/additive resynth of partials (hence the offline pre-encoding) I suspect this is the reason for the limited polyphony, but even with the 6 poly of the VP9000 or the higher poly of the later V Synths, it's usually plenty enough for you to grab whatever amazing sound they are making into your MPC/Recorder/Daw.Дўnd BTW, the COSM fx board inside even the now cheap as peanuts VP9000 is actually fantastic and I think it's little known that you can create really amazing sounds in their entirety just inside that box. I can't fathom why I see mint VP-9000's going for ВЈ150 uk on ebay.

And they still don't sound as useable or smooth as the VP/V Synths do. Kontakt5, Alchemy, crash apocalyptically whenever you try to use these features. In that time nothing even came close, and the only candidates that could roughly approximate pitch/time flexing in realtime, e.g. I spent 10 years looking for a 'convenient' recallable software version of what the Variphrase did so well. Roland even allows you to play legatto notes of say a rhythmic polyphonic sample phrase on the keyboard and the entire sample will remain in sync and actually pitch shift up or down through out the the length of the sample while the chord of the samples start and end points remaining syncronized and is amazing really. Now I am sure the V-Vocal and Meloydyne editors will allow you to do the kinds of things variphrase will do but it requires alot off line manipulation until you get everything to fit right.time consuming.Variphrase is different in that it is real time tweaking. Now you can achieve the same thing in Live or Reason and even in the NI Kontak sampler but (you can lock rhythmic loops very easily and Live does it automatically) but it is the playing of synchonized chords of say a string ensemble playing legato or two vocal phrases in polyphonny that Live and Reason are almost impossible in doing.

It works, but it is still NOT like Variphrase in that Variphrase allows you to encode the sample first, set the BPM, then freely manipulate its pitch, speed or formant in real time and getting a sample in the same key and rhythm to your song, quickly It is actually quite good and quite brilliant. It seems all samplers have this function now a days.even on an MPC 5000 which uses a form of sample manipulation called 'patched phrase' which in essence, cuts the audio up and creates midi notes associated with the chopped audio and then syncs it to the MPC midi clock. When in the studio, this stuff is a major time saver as opposed to having to edit a sample after the fact as you would in Sonar, Reason, Acid or Celomony Melodyne.

Using the Variphrase gets it done quickly while using say Live or Reason (which time stretch and pitchshift but don't do so in such a way that you can play polyphonic notes of rhythmic samples which can be manipulated in real time) are more cumbersome and require alot of time to make the samples you knicked off a record or what not, fit. If you are like me, sometimes you just want to quickly drop a vocal sample into your track or take a polyphonic chord sampl e from another song and tweak it quickly so it will fit the song you are working on. Yes, it can be done in other ways but it is massively tedious to do it and requires alot of work after the fact. I am going to chime in here and say that the real time ability to change pitch and time of a phrase to fit your song's key is pretty brilliant concerning Roland's Variphrase technology.