Is There A Polyphonic Synth for AxeFx III?

[TenorKeith]

Eventide just came out with an awesome sounding polyphonic synth algorithm for the H90. Is there anything like that for the AxeFx III?
There's no way I would spend $900 for one of those, but I'm wondering if we have something like that in Fractal Land!

 

[unix-guy]

No... It's still only monophonic.

It would be very cool.

Many wishes / requests:

https://forum.fractalaudio.com/search/1606003/?q=Polyphonic+synth&c[title_only]=1&o=date

 

[simeon]

no, the synth is monophonic. we do have intelligent pitch shifting though, so you can use a workaround where you play one note and let the pitch shifter add in others to make chords in a particular key.

btw, you joined in 2019 and you're asking this now? what have you been doing with your axe fx?

 

[TenorKeith]

LOL, good question!

 

[FractalAudio]

Is there any modeler that has a polyphonic synth? Polyphonic pitch detection with low-latency and without a hexaphonic pickup is nearly impossible at consumer prices.

 

[JTI]

DEAR SWEET BABY JESUS AKA CLIFF

 

[JTI]

@FractalAudio I'll send you my SY1000 if you want to give it a go? Normal guitar input and the dynamic synth is great.

 

[FractalAudio]

@FractalAudio I'll send you my SY1000 if you want to give it a go? Normal guitar input and the dynamic synth is great.

I don't believe that uses polyphonic pitch detection. I believe those products use waveform morphing.

 

[TenorKeith]

I was just commenting on what I've seen with the new H90 algorithm and I figured anything Eventide could do, Cliff can do better!

 

[bradlake]

Though they haven’t upgraded software in years, I have found MIDI Guitar 2 the best shot at integrating polyphonic synths with FAS gear without extra hardware (needing a computer or IPad of course).
www.jamorigin.com

 

[JTI]

I don't believe that uses polyphonic pitch detection. I believe those products use waveform morphing.

Interesting. I'm no James Freeman on the subject. I know it's a form of subtractive synthesis? I think my own polyphonic request/thought pattern is along the lines of the fact you can play chords with it using the regular input and it will track as it ideally should.

 

[Rogerthat]

The H90 has surprising good poly tracking but the hex pick up still is the king.

Check out the meris Enzo too.

 

[unix-guy]

Though they haven’t upgraded software in years, I have found MIDI Guitar 2 the best shot at integrating polyphonic synths with FAS gear without extra hardware (needing a computer or IPad of course).
www.jamorigin.com

Same!

 

[JTI]

FWIW; the SY add is not going to do real world instrument emulation vs. something PCM based or the JO stuff. Which is still going to be obviously fake. But pared with FAS effects; the SY or really any synth sounds KILLER. Offer still stands if you want to take a look under the hood!

 

[2112]

The Eventide SIFT stuff is based on a paper from the early 90's AFAIK - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/269135

Not sure what BOSS are you using for the SY-1/SY-1000 guitar inputs but they do a pretty decent job too.

 

[Omri Bazelet]

There are some plugins that do it
For example MIDIGuitar

 

[bustedstring]

Sigh . . . when enough just isn't enough . . . .

 

[NeoSound]

I don't believe that uses polyphonic pitch detection. I believe those products use waveform morphing.

Using pitch, filters and effects can get close to some synth-like sounds. Are there other tools that can let us alter the waveform also? Can more be easily added?

 

[simeon]

maybe an lfo that went up into audio rate? i've asked for one of those before. you could do some interesting stuff, i reckon...

 

[Rogerthat]

The Eventide SIFT stuff is based on a paper from the early 90's AFAIK - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/269135

Not sure what BOSS are you using for the SY-1/SY-1000 guitar inputs but they do a pretty decent job too.

Even further back: https://typeset.io/papers/the-sift-algorithm-for-fundamental-frequency-estimation-2ywennblyi