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Zynaptiq has announced the imminent release of PITCHMAP, the worldʼs first and only audio plug-in capable of polyphonic pitch-correction and pitch-mapping in real-time.

PITCHMAP allows real-time correction of pitch inaccuracies within mixed signals, as well as completely altering the tonality, chords, harmonies or melodies of a musical signal on the fly, a process Zynaptiq refers to as Pitch Mapping. PITCHMAP does this using Zynaptiq’s proprietary, artificial intelligence based MAP technology (Mixed-Signal Audio Processing) to de-mix an incoming signal – like, for example, a full mix – into individual elements, and then allows the user to arbitrarily or automatically correct and modify their pitches. Additionally, PITCHMAP provides means to deliberately induce processing “errors” to make results sound synthetic in a very futuristic and unique way.

“Our DSP Developer Stephan M. Bernsee has come up with what we believe to be a real game-changer.” Zynaptiq CEO Denis H. Goekdag said. “PITCHMAP lets you reach into a recording and change the pitch-related aspects of the composition on-the-fly. You can change an entire song from minor to major with just a couple of clicks, simultaneously correcting any tuning issues and changing the key. While there are other pitch processing solutions available, PITCHMAP combines polyphonic capability, a real-time workflow and an exceptional processing quality based on techniques that model the human auditory system, thus opening up a whole new level of creativity.”

Zynaptiq GmbH, based in Hannover, Germany, creates audio software based on artificial intelligence technology, and was founded in 2011 by Stephan M. Bernsee and Denis H. Goekdag, known for their involvement with Prosoniq, Hartmann Music, Surround SFX and the DSP Dimension, amongst others.

Zynaptiq PITCHMAP

Pitchmap features

• Automatic correction of pitch inaccuracies in polyphonic/mixed signals.
• Pitch Mapping: Change harmonies and melodies on the fly.
• Pitch Mapping via GUI-created source/destination maps or real-time MIDI-input.
• Macro controls for near-instant creation of harmony- and key-changes.
• Snapshot functionality for fast workflow and easy automation.
• Perceptive modeling based Natural mode for voice-adapted processing.
• Continuously variable Electrify parameter for making results sound synthetic in an exciting and unique way.

PITCHMAP will initially be released as Mac AU (AudioUnits) plug-in on January 19th, 2012, with VST and AAX support for both Mac and Windows platforms planned for later in 2012.

PITCHMAP has will be available to purchase for the introductory price of 269 USD/EUR until April 1st, 2012. The regular price is 399 USD/EUR (prices in EUR inclusive of 19% VAT).

More information: Zynaptiq / Pitchmap

The DSP Dimension has announced the release of DiracFxAU, a freeware pitch shifting plug-in for Mac based on its new DiracFx API.

DiracFx is a high performance pitch shifting and time stretching algorithm that allows changing pitch and speed of audio signals independently of each other at very high quality and very fast speed. Optimized for use on mobile platforms, DiracFx uses no trigonometric operations and is available for iOS, Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.

A feature-limited DiracLE edition of the SDK is available to developers at dirac.dspdimension.com (this distro also contains the AU plug-in), a professional version can be licensed from The DSP Dimension upon request.

DSP Dimension is the former Prosoniq R&D department and the company responsible for developing the DSP technology behind all Prosoniq products.

More information: The DSP Dimension / DiracFxAU

TwistedWave, the audio editor for Mac, was updated to version 1.7.

As for all the updates released so far, TwistedWave 1.7 is freely available for all the registered users. It contains a number of new features, fixes and improvements, the most important ones being the new support for batch processing, and the DIRAC Time Stretch/Pitch Shift technology, licensed from The DSP Dimension, one of the best pitch shifting implementations, an excellent replacement for Apple’s built in pitch shifting algorithms.

Changes in TwistedWave v1.7

• New Features
  • Batch processing.
  • Support for DIRAC time stretching/pitch shifting and automatic pitch correction.
  • Exporting waveform images.
  • Support for saving WMA files.
  • Added support for the MS and IMA4 ADPCM codec.
• Improvements
  • Clicking on a marker moves the cursor.
  • Selecting markers in the markers window selects the corresponding audio regin.
  • Prevent doing a selection by mistake when doing a simple click.
• Fixes
  • Fixed a problem exporting CAF AAC and IMA4 files.
  • Fixed a problem with Audio Units whose GUI would resize.
  • A crash when Command-dropping a file before 0.
  • Applying an ohm force plugin failed.
  • The default preset for Audio Units was broken.
  • TwistedWave failed recovering a session where the signal generator was used.
  • TwistedWave was not looping seamlessly.
  • When using the special paste, the cursor could move to the start of the file in some cases.

TwistedWave for Mac is available to purchase for $79 USD.

More information: TwistedWave