Hardstyle FX using pitch in Cubase?

[leeroy]

well.. when you pitch a sound with a pitch shifter, It boosts the formants of a sound and thus the frequencies become "excited" (the brightness of the sound is increased), sometimes it can be to good effect, sometimes not

in some plugins you can get a pitch shifter in which you can choose to only boost the formants of the sound and leave the pitch alone

an example would be a Japanese VST plugin called "internet Adv pitch shift 2" I've tried it on my laptop and it worked really nicely. Sadly it didn't work on 64bit pc.

THAT's REALLY what I was looking for! really interesting! Thanks alot. Any more info on this or how to use it to boost the formants in a nice way using the built in pitch shifter inside of cubase? It seems loads of producers are using this technique inside of Cubase

well it's all about tricks/illusions whatever you want to call it.

Using the FX in random ways which they are not even meant to be used, Many producers do it.

one of the tricks I found to give a Bass sound more energy was to pitch it with a pitch shifter to a key where it sounds real good in your ears, Then pitch it back up to the root key of your song. The bass now has boosted formants and basically more energy!

sometimes if you do the same kinda thing with a hardsound or screech, it can make the screech sound more.. "electric" or just more obscure, usually nicer, more raw.

and just to explain what the whole formant thing is, well when you lower the pitch of a vocal, the sound quality always decreases right? This is because the formants are taken away. And when you've pitched a vocal up higher, you may have noticed the quality increases, that's because the formants were increased. Quality pitching tools like the cubase pitch shifter tries to preserve formants so you get the highest quality when you pitch it low and the same/greater quality when you pitch it higher. It's all about what algorithms you choose to use as well.