I was answering the original question. Just highlighting the fact that if you find an effect on the QC doesn’t quite sound right and most others find that particular effect fine, then there’s a slim chance you might be doing something wrong aka spill… it’s a common error, just saying 
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Hi @mosoto,
You could be right, which is which I was asking for suggestions or tips.
So yeah, any suggestions are welcomed
I find the QC Pitch Shifter is much better than the Digitech Drop and way better than the Helix.
There is a bit of latency but compared to Drop and Helix I think it is half or more less latency and the tone is not changed either.
I can confirm that the Helix Pitch Shifter was not very good…had an Helix LT a while back.
I really liked the Chorus and Wah. Delays and Pitch Shifting were not to my taste.
My issue is the the DSP plugins transpose is way better than the QC Pitch Shifiter.
I’ve got both
I understand but I don’t think your going to get any better than a QC or maybe and Axe FX. Your computer will always be much faster at processing. Not much you can do to fix it for now.
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@mosoto For my info, what is the “spill” you refer to (I take it from an earlier comment it is the original, “un-detuned” tone, coming through in the output sound)?
And what do you do to stop/reduce/control it?
They’re different pitch shifting effects. The transpose in the plugin is polyphonic. The pitch shifter on the QC is monophonic.
I actually found it to be pretty good. It was fairly close to the performance of my Digitech Whammy DT. What I found on my initial experience with it, I was hearing my strings acoustically at the same time of hearing through my amp. So I put on noise cancelling headphones and without hearing the actual strings it sounded fine. I have the pitch shifting in the first block of my chain on the QC.
Make sure you put the pitch shifter as the first block in the chain. The algorithm sounds exactly the same as in the plugins
The algorithm in the plugins is not the same as the QC pitch shifter. Chords sound really strange with the QC pitch shifter.
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I won’t be using the QC pitch shifter live as it doesn’t feel right…does the job, but it’s not for me. I’ll wait until we can use the DSP plugins in QC or they make the pitch shifter better and then use it.
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I agree chords on the QC don’t track properly unlike the plugins. Looking forward to plugins on the QC so I can do Eb song’s without down tuning my floating tremolo.
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I found the QC pitch shifter TOO good (for a monophonic use case). I re added my bass whammy to my pedalboard because I like the glitches it adds 
That’s because the QC pitch shifter isn’t polyphonic and therefore can’t process chords properly.
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Absolutely, but for some reason some people in this thread keep trying to act like it can process chords
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Can I ask what DSP plugin you use?
Sure, I’m using the DSP Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+ Suite plugin … I totally love it!
I meant, what DSP plugin do you use for the pitch shifter that you found better.
I think he’s using the “Transpose” function on the plugins which is a Poly Pitch.
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