IHMO, they should have named it Tachyon technique instead of IMART...
It would be cool if they also added an option to "play" the pitch shifter voices via note numbers, so it would be like an TC Helicon Harmony M but aimed for guitar...
I remember wishing that for Ultra many years ago, Cliff seemed interested in knowing why and how one could use it. I don´t know what happened then... and here I am still wishing that option...
/Mike
Will this feature have any effect on the latency that occurs when droptuning more than a semitone?
If I catch your meaning, no, because even then the Axe-fx won't know which string is producing which note. For tuning strings independently, you need dedicated pickups for each string.Since Cliff said "The pitch detector now tracks even complex chords" I'm guessing this will allow us to have "custom tunings" ala Variax?
Not necessarily, The Variax uses hexaphonic input and processing, therefore each string has its own pitch shifter. For example you could shift certain strings different amounts to create open or dropped tunnings. The Axe II on the other hand only has a mono source for pitch shifting but will now pitch shift a chord the same amount without the nasty artifacts of the pitch detector getting confused witch notes to track.Since Cliff said "The pitch detector now tracks even complex chords" I'm guessing this will allow us to have "custom tunings" ala Variax?
Haven't worked with Helicon, but Digitech IPS33b custom harmony had a nice function in that you would play a note into it and then select the harmony note from the screen. Much easier than selecting an interval.
Since Cliff said "The pitch detector now tracks even complex chords" I'm guessing this will allow us to have "custom tunings" ala Variax?
No.
People need to understand that this is not polyphonic pitch detection. It's just greatly improved pitch detection and commensurate pitch shifting. With most pitch shifting products things go haywire when you play, for example, a 7#9 or a 13th or other complex chords. The new pitch detector can detect the fundamental of complex chords which then allows the shifter to shift them musically.
Myself and the beta testers seem to feel that it's the best pitch detector/shifter for guitar now. It tracks way, way better than my Eclipse.
To do custom tunings you need a polyphonic detector and polyphonic shifter. IOW, you need to detect all the notes and then somehow extract each one and shift it individually. This is virtually impossible to do in real-time with a single audio stream. Things like Melodyne can do it off-line. I don't know how Melodyne works, maybe wavelet decomposition, but it's unreasonable to expect that kind of thing in real-time with current hardware, maybe in the future. To do it in real-time you need a polyphonic, i.e. hexaphonic, pickup. This is how the Variax and Roland products work. They apply a detection and shift to each string which is a much easier calculation since the audio from each string is monophonic. Detecting the fundamental of polyphonic material is a very difficult signal processing problem.
Does this mean that we will have a poly tune type feature?
Whats this thread about? The OP has no background.