Pitchshifting plugins

Get speedy shifting in seconds with these top transposers

QuikQuak Pitchwheel

Twist the two wheels to shift pitch and timbre independently, trigger via MIDI, and apply Inertia to dial in unique ‘springing’ effects quikquak.com

Waves Torque

Better than regular pitchshifting and quicker than retriggering, Torque makes light work of tuning acoustic and electronic drums waves.com

Soundtoys Little AlterBoy

A colourful gizmo for altering a signal’s pitch and formant in real time, complete with three shifting modes and drive soundtoys.com

Auburn Sounds Graillon

A low-latency “live voice changer” for vocal harmony generation, robot-style pitch correction, bitcrushing and more auburnsounds.com

Waves SoundShifter

This automatable plugin makes light work of real-time stretching and pitchshifting waves.com

zplane Elastique Pitch 2

Deploying the same elastiquePro warping and shifting found in most DAWs, this real-time transposer sounds just as good as you’d expect zplane.com

DMG Audio PitchFunk

This mind-boggling sound mangler serves up modulatable pitchshifting, filtering, delay and granular processing dmgaudio.com