I’m going to interrupt my Japan coverage to mention that one of the things in the stack of mail awaiting us at home was the latest issue of Computer Music magazine. In it is an article about pitch shifting, starting with the old Harmonizers and going through the current crop of intelligent harmony-effects plug-ins. There is some nice coverage of Audio Damage’s Discord, which is appropriate since Discord is the best (and pretty much only) plug-in for creating Harmonizer-like effects. The original version of Discord was a near clone of the H910 Harmonizer; the current version includes the same stuff as the first but has a lot of other nifty features as well. The article nicely describes how Discord can be used to reproduce some of the most famous examples of Harmonizer-based timbres, such as Prince’s snare sound and the guitar solo in Yes’s “Owner of a Lonely Heart”.
Cloner of a Lonely Heart
