Six top pitchshifters

Eventide H3000 Factory | $349

Famous for their range of hardware Harmonizers, Eventide’s plugin lets you do wild and crazy things with pitchshifting, with modulation options aplenty.

Celemony Melodyne | from €99

Melodyne does polyphonic tuning, pitch correction, formant shifting and more. Melodyne’s feature set makes it a go-to choice for creative professionals.

Antares Auto-Tune | £399

It’s most famous these days for its T-Pain-alike hyper-tuned vocal effects, but Auto-Tune is highly capable of more ‘natural’ and creative pitchshifting capabilities too.

UAD Eventide H910 Harmonizer | $249

This lets you warp pitch in a number of ways, pairing the sublime and the ridiculous in a delicious combination. It requires UAD hardware to run.

GRM Shift | €200

With a pitchshifting algorithm which should make you sit up and take note, GRM Shift is capable of everything from subtle detune to more radical pitch offsets.

Your DAW’s Pitch Shifter

Almost every DAW comes with a pitchshifter. A few years ago, ‘native’ pitchshifting algorithms weren’t up to much, but fortunately, they’ve come on leaps and bounds since then.