REQ: Reason Studios RE Polar Dual Pitch Shifter v1.1
Polar is an classic 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
- Loop algorithm offers a defined loop length (or "grain length")
- Loop can be reversed for running of loops in different directions
- Micro pitch shifting/thickening/widening
- Pitch-shifted delay
- Twisted and modulated pitch-shift effects
- Dramatic pitch shifting (special FX)
- Real-time control, expansive modulation capabilities
- Resonant filter with built-in envelope and LFO
- MIDI note tracking for keyboard-controlled pitch shifting
- Integrated delay buffer creates repeating pitch shifts
- Experiment with delay and feedback to create glittering arpeggios from one-note recordings
- 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
- 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
New in version 1.1
The new 4X mode multiplies the delay time. This allows you to delay signals and sweep through buffers up to 1600ms long. Version 1.1 also adds thirty new patches.