I’m afraid they may have quietly sent the Poly pitch-shifter off to oblivion- it’s not listed on the “Announced but not released” list anymore. They seem to be gradually adding things from this list and that fact that it’s still available online is promising, but unfortunately I’d assume anything that disappears from that list probably isn’t going to happen. Poly pitch-shift might be beyond their reach?
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I can hear the glitches clear as day in your example. It’s a strange warbly/slightly jumpy thing that happens with the chords. I can even hear it in the stuff that slightly more single note based as well. Hopefully they can update the algorithm. It’s because Transpose is monophonic.
Neural kinda hides the glitches of it in the plugin demos because it’s a lot of super distorted djent wannabe riffs that they use for the marketing.
I mean, yeah. Making sure their demos sounds the best they can and don’t highlight strange elements of the blocks that might exist
Is there a glitch-free pitch shifter/ transpose on the market?
Poly Capo on Helix is really good for what it is. Digitech Drop is pretty good (same designers). It’s pretty night and day different with Poly Capo since it’s also has an EQ function that keeps the pitch shifting from darkening the tone too much. Still surprised Neural can have a polyphonic octaver, but cannot figure out a polyphonic pitch shifter when other companies have.
Another one is Polychrome Hypertune. Wish it wasn’t just a plugin. But yeah, they absolutely exist.
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Try PolychromeDSP pitch shifter,.
They even did a comparison between Ndsp plug-in transpose and their pitch shifting plug-in (guess who wins hands down ?)
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Yeah it’s wild how much better it is. Even Ola England shows how glitchy transpose is in one of his videos. I appreciate him being honest about the plugin and not just hyping it up like other YouTubers.
I wish more gear YouTubers were actually honest about gear instead of jumping on a bandwagon for any company. I understand they want to keep having companies send them gear, but stuff can’t improve unless people are honest about it in reviews. It’s caused lot of products to be improved when people were really critically demoing stuff.
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Re YouTube reviews:
You can be certain if the personality received the pedal before launch day and videos are up within a few hours of announcements… you are watching marketing not an honest review.
I don’t bother with YouTube for reviews. The forums are generally where to find the most honest and candid takes, imo.
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Yeah, it’s crazy how much certain reviewers will just hype up any product they can for attention. Honestly tired of the glorified ads these people have been making. Its cool anyone can make a video and upload it, but honestly it makes it so people think people with little to no audio, songwriting, or touring experience have an expert opinion on this stuff
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2 for the glitch and imprecision in the definition of the notes, and the result is very similar when I sometimes try to use the quad cortex effect, but I have never used hypertune, but I believe it must be much better, so to my ears it is number 1
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Still not tried the transpose a lot and didn’t tried other than the kemper one (glitchy)
The first exemple is darker with some kind of dirty mp3 chorus that i here at 0.10 and the second crisper with more metallic resonances.
In those exemples the 1 feels more glitchy in the first 10 seconds and the second have more high end noises and fizz etc…
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Did you load the plugin in a DAW and then route the signal after hypertune to the QC?
Nice! Yeah I can tell Hypertune is 1 and Transpose is 2. The warbly glitchy artifacts of transpose are pretty easy to tell on that one, where the Hypertune one has clearer chords with a nicer clarity to them. Transpose darkens the tone and makes chords sound a lot cloudier or mushy from the pitch shifting glitching
Appreciate you doing the experiment between them! I’m probably more sensitive to the different pitch shifters, since I’ve used a lot of them through the years. Transpose sorta does what the EHX Pitchfork does where it makes the guitar sound slightly underwater. Assuming you might perceiving it as a warmer sound, which might be why you prefer it. Unfortunately it also adds to the chords not having much clarity and sounding pretty mushy.
Great job showing the comparison though!
I like 2 but I think they probably could both sit in a mix OK with a pretty clean take.
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I don’t mind Youtube reviews, but ideally you’d get someone who bought it and is also cynical enough to not try to defend one’s own purchase by singing its praises. A grumpy middle aged dude with disposable income. 
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2 Is QC 100% with lemon
And not because i have 50% of probab.
2 Is QC and stop.
Huh? Assuming there’s a typo in there
Speaking of transpose/pitch shifting, has anyone compared the quality and speed of the Eventide H90 with the Quad Cortex?
I would love to know. Haven’t gotten to try the H90 somehow yet