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Final pitch of sound output from FM8/Operator/
« on: January 17, 2016, 11:30:01 am »
Was wondering if anyone knew of a plugin or some piece of software that can show you the exact pitch of the sound thats being output by FM8/Operator or any sound for that matter?

I use Live, and i know that you can use spectrum to see where the frequency is hitting and can find the pitch, but when I make a silly or weird patch in fm8 and try to look thru the spectrum analyser, theres so many strong overtones and harmonics that its difficult to make out what the dominant pitch is.  Makes it hard when you want to layer with a sub etc and there might be two notes that sound like they work i.e. F & F#  :-\


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Re: Final pitch of sound output from FM8/Operator/
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2016, 11:39:26 am »
Maybe -> http://www.voxengo.com/product/span/

It's free and you can zoom & freeze in on the frequencies too.

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Re: Final pitch of sound output from FM8/Operator/
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2016, 11:58:11 am »
There's a guitar tuner in Live 9.5. It should work on synths as well.
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Re: Final pitch of sound output from FM8/Operator/
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2016, 12:25:37 pm »
Maybe -> http://www.voxengo.com/product/span/

It's free and you can zoom & freeze in on the frequencies too.

yeah the gliss eq is actually my eq i use which has that same spectrum analyser built in it

There's a guitar tuner in Live 9.5. It should work on synths as well.

tuner is ok but once the patches start getting a bit more mangled etc it doesn't pick anything up

i guess what im trying to say is that if i have made a sound that when i hit, for example, C2 on my keyboard, ill look through an analyser and notice it has quite large spikes in frequencies around it (E2,G2,A#2), which looks like a chord is playing and in fm8 I've just done a heap of fm making my sound they way i want it, and it doesn't sound chordal but it shows like one is playing through

i dunno im trying to find the right words to explain my situation but im struggling to find the words haha

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Re: Final pitch of sound output from FM8/Operator/
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2016, 12:47:15 pm »
That's harmonics of the sound. Every non-sinewave sound has them. You're interested in the lowest sinewave, that's your fundamental.
Also usually (unless you did something crazy with keytracking) sounds have the same pitch at any octave. Try to play it in higher octave and see if the tuner picks it up.
If not, find frequency analyser that allows you to crank FFT window so high you'll see fequencies not as a "hill" but almost as a "line". That should help you tune it by analyser. :)
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Re: Final pitch of sound output from FM8/Operator/
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2016, 01:06:10 pm »
That's harmonics of the sound. Every non-sinewave sound has them. You're interested in the lowest sinewave, that's your fundamental.
Also usually (unless you did something crazy with keytracking) sounds have the same pitch at any octave. Try to play it in higher octave and see if the tuner picks it up.
If not, find frequency analyser that allows you to crank FFT window so high you'll see fequencies not as a "hill" but almost as a "line". That should help you tune it by analyser. :)

Fuck, i just tried what you said with playing it right up the octaves and it worked a treat, thanks man

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Re: Final pitch of sound output from FM8/Operator/
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2016, 01:12:55 pm »
Np. ;)
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