Auburn Sounds

Inner Pitch
Version 1.0.2

Natural Pitch Shifter

FOREWORD
Thank you for using an AUBURN SOUNDS® product.

The aim of INNER PITCH is to be the most natural pitch-shifting engine possible and
explore the possibilities that can offer.

Key features include:

State-of-the-art sound quality.

Stereo-preservation. 100% linked by default.
Lower latency than GRAILLON. (Down to 17.8 ms).
Complex program material support. Whole mixes and noise are supported.

AUBURN SOUNDS® has pushed DSP efforts beyond what was covered in published
research.

Now, INNER PITCH allows you to play with two octaves of pitch in a fun and natural
way.

What you get additionally:

Formant shifting
A Delay Unit which includes Ping-Pong, Diffusion, and infinite feedback.
A simple in-loop 3-band EQ .
Stereoization based on a simple L/R pitch offset.
3 types of in-loop distortion.

And most of that is for free. Inner Pitch exists in two versions:

AUBURN SOUNDS® INNER PITCH FREE can do everything that was described
above.

AUBURN SOUNDS® INNER PITCH FULL includes more features that trade
quality for CPU. Unlocks best pitch-shifting quality, and also the lowest CPU
usage.

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INSTALLATION
First, unzip the content of the AUBURN SOUNDS INNER PITCH FREE (or FULL) archive.

For macOS users

Double-click on the .pkg installer in the Mac/ directory.

You may need to reboot your Mac computer to see the new Audio Unit in hosts.
If GateKeeper complains about the Developer being unidentified, try again with
Right Click / "Open".
If you can't open the ZIP, try moving it to your Desktop first.

For Windows users

Double-click on the .exe installer in the Windows/ directory.

When using the VST 2.4 format, you may have to enter the right VST 2.4 directory
in order for your DAW to find the plug-in.

For Linux users

Open the Linux/ directory.

VST2: Copy the LV2 plug-in ( .lv2 directory) in your LV2 directory.
VST3: Copy the VST2 plug-in Auburn Sounds Inner Pitch.so in your
VST2 directory.
LV2: Copy the VST3 plug-in ( .vst3 directory) in your VST3 directory.

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UPDATES
Upgrade to FULL
Purchasing a FULL upgrade on the Auburn Sounds website, or its resellers, always
leads to the https://itch.io website.

After purchasing or registering an external purchase here, you need to download a

new ZIP and install it on top of the existing FREE plug-in.

Your existing FREE sessions will keep working with the FULL product.

Getting newer versions

If you can't find links to your purchase, there are two possibilities:

Either you linked your purchase to an itch.io account.

Go to this page and login: https://itch.io/my-purchases

Or you did not link your purchase to an itch.io account.

Go to this page which can send you download links again:
https://itch.io/docs/buying/already-bought

Should I fear broken sessions?

Session compatibility is broken with each major version change.

eg: Graillon 1.2 to Graillon 2.0

Session compatibility is preserved with each minor version change.

eg: Graillon 2.3 to 2.4

Because your host will see each major version as different plug-ins, you can't loose
sessions by upgrading.

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COMPATIBILITY
AUBURN SOUNDS INNER PITCH is available in various plug-in formats:

VST2
VST3
Audio Unit v2
AAX
LV2

For the following Operating Systems (OS):

Windows 7 or newer,
macOS 10.12 or newer,
Ubuntu 18.04 or newer

Our plug-ins have been tested with a wide variety of Digital Audio Workstations hosts
(DAW). However if you find out your DAW isn't well supported, please report a bug at
[email protected] .

Supported sampling rates range from 11025 Hz to 192 kHz.

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CHANGELOG
Version 1.0.2
Fix compatibility with some Linux such as Debian 11 (libc6 2.31)

Version 1.0.1
Fix compatibility with macOS Mojave 10.14, and earlier.
Note: Same 1.0.0 binaries for Windows and Linux.

Version 1.0
Initial release.

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PARAMETERS
Pitch panel
Pitch sets the pitch-shifting from -2 to +2 octaves.

L/R Shift shifts left and right channels with an offset difference to enlarge the stereo
image. This creates antiphase and width.

Pitch settings panel

Tonal Boost favors either transients or non-transients. Helpful to adapt to source
materials a bit more precisely.

Stereo Link keeps phase aligned in left and right channels while pitch-shifting.

100% link preserves the existing stereo image

0% link gives you a cleaner but ghostly sound (without a "center")

Formant lets you shift formants from -2 to +2 octaves.

Distortions
Color add 3 distortion effects, that can all be used at once:

RATE simulates a lower sampling-rate.

GAME goes through an ADPCM game codec known as QOA (Quite OK Audio)
to have a subtle video-game sound.
TUBE is a simple parallel waveshaper that sounds good on about anything.

Tip: All those distortions happen in-loop when the delay is active, along with the EQ, the
pitch/formant shifting, and the delay diffusion.

Premium features
Quality (Full Edition only) Gives you additional quality mode for pitch shifting.

MAX preserves transients more, costs more CPU.

STD is the balanced default.
SOFT is an economical mode with a more noisy sound. It is sometimes the
best sounding mode, while also being the cheapest in CPU.

Time Div (Full Edition only) sets the STFT overlap , as another quality mode for pitch

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shifting.

2x overlap can be used to save CPU. It sounds the less reverberant, and can be
useful for transients at the cost of the tonal parts. Surprisingly, it sometimes ends
up being the best-sounding.
3x overlap is the default and most balanced mode.
4x overlap sounds more precise with transients and high end, at the cost of
more reverberation and CPU usage.
5x overlap is even more precise for high end, at the cost of even more
reverberant sound and CPU usage.
6x overlap doesn't seems that useful.

Delay panel
Time is the delay length in milliseconds. This can be set with the 2D panel or with the
TAP button.

Tip: You can set up Time individually in the panel by using CTRL + right-click.

Feedback is the delay extinction in dB. This can be set with the 2D panel.

Tip: You can set up Feedback individually in the panel by using right-click.

Pan affects panorama of delayed sound.

Ping-pong alternates left and right in the delay sound.

Diffusion adds reflection to the delayed sound, turning it into a slight reverb.

Spectrum Panel
Change the 3 Band Gain and the 2 Band Crossovers to modify the EQ shape of the
Wet signal. Tip: This also affects the delay feedback dramatically, by adjusting its internal
limiter threshold.

Output Panel
Wet mixes the delayed, distorted, and pitch-shifted Wet signal with the unaffected
and compensated Dry input.

Gain is a final output volume gain slider that applies to both.

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CREDITS
Development, UI/UX, DSP
Guillaume PIOLAT

QA
Benjamin RENARD

Thanks
Thanks goes to our fellow musicians, friends and family that provides invaluable
support for the creation of state of the art audio tools.

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LEGAL INFORMATION
Mac OS® and the Mac OS logo are registered trademarks of Apple Inc.
Windows® and the Windows Logo are registered trademarks of Microsoft.
AAX® is a registered trademark of Avid Technology.
VST® is a registered trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies AG.

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QOI (Quite OK Image format)
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QOA (Quite OK Audio format)
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