As i Read in another post, it was suggested to make another pitch shifter better than the digitech whammy.
i have to say, pitch shifters are good, but they arent very original any more. what WOULD be original would be an arpeggiator that works similar to a pitch shifter, however it doesnt just shift the pitch up or down automatically, it would have a range of 2 octaves in both direction and whammys the signal in stages.
it would have 2 Footswitches, 1 tap tempo, 1 true bypass, at least 4 knobs(3 for the pitch interval of each arpeggiator step, and 1 for the rate) and a toggle switch to toggle between the type of arpeggiator, be it random, up, down, up and down, or down and up(i have not developed a complete knowledge of arpeggiator patterns, others could be suggested). additionally, there would be the traditional Electro Harmonix knobs;Filter, Blend, and Level. all in all, it would be the exact same amount of knobs, lights and buttons as the memory man with hazarai. :D

EDIT:
after trying out the Holy Stain (which i THINK has an analog pitch shifter) i have come to notice that yes, pitch shifting does put the “anal” in analog, but a Digital one nonetheless would be awesome. and no, the boss slicer does this job sort of, but if it were made by electro harmonix, and it were designed specifically as an arpeggiator, it would be 10,000 times better.

sounds great, I have no idea if it’s possible to build an analogue pedal that does that though. Something tells me it would have to be digital.

You could run a sequencer on a delay to make sort of an analog arpeggiator sound, but it would be delayed. 

Or in the digital realm you could run a sequencer on the HOG.

Couldn’t, and shouldn’t, be analog. Appalling tracking, (I know you guys love glitchiness, but have you ever heard analog gear try to do anything but octaves?  Trust me, it’s a bad idea.) so digital would be fine.

This is why some effects just shouldn’t be analog:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFSQ5ZRxlis

The only polyphonic pitch shifter ever made.  It was prohibitively expensive too.

Yeah, definitely would have to be digital. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Modulation, distortion/boost/OD/fuzz, filters, certain delay applications should all be analog (IMO), but more advanced delay stuff and non-octave pitch stuff really needs to be digital. I think that they might be able to apply some of the Voice Box technology to the arpeggiator, but I’m not sure. My knowledge of digital circuits isn’t worth two beans.

Is this similar to the Boss Slicer then? Seems so…..

ghost - 06 August 2009 08:33 PM

Is this similar to the Boss Slicer then? Seems so…..

be dying to try one of these out…..I thought the slicer was more of a rhythmic tremolo though or does it shift pitch too?

I only played with one briefly… It does sequenced tremolo for sure. It also has some processing settings… not sure if they were filters or pitch shifting. Didn’t play too long, as I didn’t like the interface and not being able to manipulate the sequence… But the Midi Tempo in is brilliant.

EHX—- more MIDI! Even if it’s just tempo sync between units….

For the record, the Eventide Pitchfactor has an arpeggiator.

Like this:
Pitch-Sequencing…?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icO3jyaX-gI ?

Analog Freeq-Arpeggio ?

yes of course!

Wait, what if you had a vibrato with the LFO going through a S&H unit? That would get you close.

Yes, it would.

Of course, you’d need digital technology to keep the LFO & S&H aligned and within the scale…

hmmm, somehow on the Subdecay Prometheus where you’re doing the S+H thing it does patterns instead of complete randomness