Raphael26 Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Someone can help me with Pitch Harmonic? My opinion about it is that function are to down or up the tone of guitar. Help me plz! Thnk u all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumblinman Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 You can use the pitch shifter to change your tuning up or down. The smart harmony is used to double your guitar sound and play a second tone based on what key and scale you choose. Which do you want to use? Harmony or pitch change? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metalchef Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 I think pitch shifter is what the Op meant. And it is touchy but easy to fiddle with and PLACEMENT is EVERYTHING. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gckelloch Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 Can the Smart Harmonizer deal with chords? If not and he wants to play chords, I think he wants the Pitch Glide set to an octave or maybe a 5th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raphael26 Posted February 22, 2014 Author Share Posted February 22, 2014 well, i would like to change the tone of guitar.. And.. i don't find the pitch shift :[ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaubinHood Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Effect type Pitch --> Smart harmony Select your Key (for example E), scale (for example minor) and shift (for example -5) and after hitting mix to 50% there you go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radatats Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Effect type Pitch --> Pitch Glide Place right after noise gate and before any other effects or amps. Turn on in FX tab of HD Edit and set pitch to +12 for one octave up. Go to Controller tab and set Pitch Glide mix to Exp 1 or 2, min 0, max 100. Now when playing with heel down you get your normal tone, when you go toe down it jumps one octave giving you that pinch harmonic/feedback effect... ​Anyone else feel free to offer other suggestions... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raphael26 Posted February 23, 2014 Author Share Posted February 23, 2014 WaubinHood yeah, -5 its tone like C right?! but the sound stays horrible :(( radatats man, i doesnt understood how i control the tone, if a want a C, or after B. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radatats Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 man, i doesnt understood how i control the tone, if a want a C, or after B. I don't understand what you want to be able to do... or which FX specifically you are using. Please be more specific... sorry bro... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raphael26 Posted February 23, 2014 Author Share Posted February 23, 2014 alright.. i wanna play a song in CGCFAD, how i do it using the pitch? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaubinHood Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Hmm.. Longer version. My example (E minor that is) sounds ok only, if played in E minor scale. What those options do? Select your Key (for example E) + scale (for example minor): When you do this, your pod picks up set of notes usable in your key scale. Your leads can be played on every chord there is in Em scale. shift (for example -5): How much and to what direction pitch is added. - goes under your played note and + over it. Even when you can add every note fitting in octave, they all won't sound nice. But since disharmony is also some kinda harmony, all those notes are included in the effect (i guess). mix to 50%: Mix between your base (played) note and added harmonic note. So if your key changes when song changes, just change to that key. Play just one note at the time. (Edit: Seems, that we have language issues also. Just tell us the name of the song in which we can hear the effect you want to get. That would help a lot) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radatats Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 alright.. i wanna play a song in CGCFAD, how i do it using the pitch? it sounds like you want a full alternate tuning? are you using a Variax? POD will not give you a complete alternate tuning on it's own... maybe I misunderstood... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NucleusX Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Unfortunately, most, if not all digital pitch shifters that stray too far from the original centre pitch sound terrible with polyphonic chords, they introduce aliasing artifacts into the sound and has been plaguing guitarists for a long time, and some believe can only be overcome by adequate DSP performance, but we're yet to see it. Alternate tunings aren't possible in chromatic steps if you where in a standard tuning to begin with. E standard down to C standard works but you will definitely get artifacts with that much spread. As a general rule, pitch shifters are only useful in these 2 senario's... 1. Polyphonic chord shifter no further than 2 semi-tones away from centre. 2. Monophonic note shifter as far as 12 semi-tones or more. As far as pitch shifters are concerned, these are about as good as they get. http://www.morpheusguitarpedals.com/bomber.php http://www.morpheusguitarpedals.com/droptune.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColonelForbin Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 i wanna play a song in CGCFAD, how i do it using the pitch? Get a JTV.!.. :) But, in all seriousness, If I am understanding what you want to do; you want the six open strings of your guitar to be the notes "CGCFAD"? That is basically the whole guitar down one step, and the low E string in "drop" c tuning? If that is the correct understanding of what you want to do, you cannot achieve that with any of the FX on the HD500. The closest you would get, would be set the pitch shifter on the HD down one step, then MANUALLY tune the low E string down one more step. However, you CAN *easily* do that using a JTV guitar, with the digital alternate tunings. The reason for this, is the HD500 can shift the 'entire' audio you are sending it, and can differntiate note from note using "smart harmony", but the HD cannot adjust the notes string by string to alternate values. The pitch shifter on the HD would give you "DGCFAD", which is everything down one step. From there, you would physically then detune the low string another step down, from E to D, and the pitch shifter would make that D to a C. The JTV guitars CAN do this, because each string has a dedicated piezo pickup under it, and that is how the JTV accomplishes alternate and open tunings on the fly. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triryche Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Yep, a JTV or just re-tune your current guitar. Or get a 2nd economy guitar and tune it to drop C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jandrio Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 I think pitch effects of the HD are not polyphonic, which means that they apply pitch shifting or smart harmony to only one note at a time. So, if you try to strum a chord and apply these effects, sometimes the result may not be "musically acceptable". Therefore, the solution would either be a JTV, or physically retuning your guitar to play CGCFAD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raphael26 Posted February 25, 2014 Author Share Posted February 25, 2014 well, now i can understand what happens! hahahah I'll search the price of JTV's, but lollipop.. i just bought a IBANEZ to months ago :s thank u all for the answers, very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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