Polar Pitch Shifter

Summary

Polar is an old school harmonizing and pitch-shifter effect with a host of modern tricks up its sleeves. Use it for classic harmonizing, stereo-widening, and realtime pitch-shifting, or experiment with buffer looping and audio freezing to create otherworldly effects.

Load up Polar in the rack, and it will instantly make your sounds wider. Introduce slight pitch-shifting to make it even bigger. Turn the Shifters to add harmonics — up to two octaves above — or radically change the pitch down to two octaves below. Finish up your patch by turning on the filter, manipulated by the built-in LFO and envelope.

If you are a singer, producer, guitarist or remixer who is looking for transparent pitch-shifting, creative ways of turning bland recordings into wide, evolving soundscapes — or want to completely mangle a sound into an interesting mess, Polar brings all this and much more to your Reason rack.

Features

• Widen your sounds — Polar turns bland mono signals into broad, beautiful stereo
• Add slight pitch shifting for chorus-like thick tones
• Heavily shift vocals, samples or recordings in pitch, transparently or old school gritty
• Experiment with delay and feedback to create glittering arpeggios from one-note recordings
• Four different algorithms — classic, smooth, loop and reverse — provide plenty of sound sculpting possibilities
• Buffer lock, sweepable with Polar’s built-in LFO, produces glitchy loops and tonal textures

Requirements

Mac OS X

• Fast internet connection for installation and registration required!
• Intel Mac with dual core processor
• 4 GB RAM or more
• 3 GB free hard disk space (program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space)
• Mac OS X 10.7 or later
• Monitor with at least 1024×768 resolution
• Core Audio compliant audio interface or built-in audio hardware
• MIDI interface and a MIDI keyboard recommended

Windows

• Fast internet connection for installation and registration required!
• Intel or AMD processor with dual cores
• 4 GB RAM or more
• 3 GB free hard disk space (program may use up to 20 GB scratch disk space)
• Windows 7 or later
• Monitor with at least 1024×768 resolution
• Audio Interface with ASIO driver
• MIDI interface and a MIDI keyboard recommended