Wish to add PitchDoubler & VS1 (Vocal Shift) FX to avantis dPack

Avantis Avantis Feature Suggestions
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I would like to add PitchDoubler & VS1 (Vocal Shift) FX to Avantis.

The dLive and GLD series have them. Please add it to Avantis!

In Avantis we have to carry an external effects rack every time we have a stage show where we do voice pitch processing.

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It Wang to add my vote to That. More FX for Vocal

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+1. Honestly all the DLive FX should make it over to the Avantis dPack. I know A&H tends to move a couple over at a time, but the Avantis has been out long enough for these to have been added IMHO.

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+1

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+1

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It has to be said: considering that the d-pack costs a lot extra, it is not well equipped. The Dyn8 16x directly on the channels is a great tool, but some of it could also be achieved with the old Rackfx MB and DynEQ at group level.

Pitch shifters (not autotune!) instead are essential as special effects, especially for theatre and musicals.
And every console had them – including the GLD.

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I’ve now removed my vote, since this is possible with the UFX expansion for the Avantis starting with firmware 2.0. Of course, it’s a relatively expensive expansion, but the additional features—like the significantly improved reverbs, etc.—make the UFX card a must-have for me anyway, as soon as I get a good deal from our A&H partner…

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Pitch shifters (not autotune!)

That’s exactly how I feel.

In theater, intentionally altering one’s voice is a common technique used for sound design.

I’d like to know why there are things GLD can do that Avantis (dPack) can’t.

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Hello @tatsuya !

As far as I can tell, programming this kind of effect is difficult to implement using the FPGA system used by Allen & Heath. That’s why it was easier with the GLD, as it was basically a Linux PC with a sound card and DSPs.

The expansion cards feature ARM processors as well as FPGAs, so it seems it might be easier to accomplish again.

I’m still amazed by the old Yamaha boards. The user interface was dreadful for me (I almost always used the Windows software instead of the hardware interface itself), but the reverbs were pretty good and there was always a (dual) pitch shifter on board. As well as an expander.

It seems not everything is quite so wonderful in the FPGA world…

Best regards,

HP