Eventide Octavox Harmonizer Plug-In

Octavox™ is derived from Eventide's flagship processor, and delivers eight voices of diatonic Harmonizer pitch shifting, each voice with individual delay adjustment and pan control.

Octavox, a unique creation tool, features the Notation Grid™ which allows graphic placement of notes on a musical staff. The plug-in allows you to specify a diatonic key and mode that it will try to follow in creating a musical harmony for the input signal. Though Octavox is useful for creating traditional harmonies, it excels at creating subtle, strange, or wild delay and pitch-based effects as well.
Based on the multi-voice pitch shifter from the Orville, the easy to use graphical interface presents pitches on a traditional music staff with quantised grids superimposed for placing notes over time.

Each of the eight voices has an identical set of parameters, which include level, mute, pan, delay time, delay feedback, and pitch. Pitch can be specified by interval (which then follows the diatonic key and selected scale) or in cents, which results in a fixed pitch offset from the input material. Delay time tops out at 2.4 seconds.
Each voice can be manipulated quickly and intuitively. Dragging harmonized intervals across bars and beats allows musical rhythmic sequences to be created from a single note. Each voice features a four-octave range, delay and individual pan controls.



Octavox's Notation window lets you adjust pitch and delay in musical terms. Instead of typing in numbers, you can adjust a voice's pitch up and down on a grand staff. Delays can be specified in terms of beats by moving the horizontal position of the voice across the bar. You can specify a tempo and meter or simply slave to Pro Tools' current session tempo. The Notation window also lets you set the master tuning, key, and scale for the diatonic pitch shifter. Scales include all the standard modes used in Western harmony, plus a few interesting additions like the Neapolitan, Hungarian, and Enigmatic scales.

Like Eventide Reverb, Octavox sports a snapshot pane. This handy 16-button area allows you to store 32 frequently referenced patches that can be called up in one or two button clicks. Input and output sliders with meters, a wet/dry mix slider, and a global-pitch setup area complete the plug-in's controls.