Getting Started with the Polar Dual Pitch Shifter Video Lecture | Reason Tutorials: The Ultimate Guide - Video & Sound Editing

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today let's talk about harmony for
nearly 40 years
studio engineers have been using a
special tool to add harmony effects to
performances and guitarists have been
especially drawn to them for their
ability to inspire new ideas and tones
in reason we can create these artifacts
using a new rack extension called the
polar dual pitch shifter let's get you
started with pole art today by going
over some of the classic pitch shifter
concepts for guitarists then you can get
on to experimenting with the glitchy
wild and downright destructive
capabilities it has stripping away all
the other knobs the heart of polar is
its two pitch shifters polar is capable
of creating up to three harmony parts
using a combination of the dry incoming
signal and to pitch knobs which
transpose the incoming signal up or down
within a two octave range I've got my
guitar hooked up to balance already I'll
create a track and start by loading a
guitar preset to get my basic tone to
add pole art to the signal chain I
prefer to add it early on before the
guitar has gone through distortion
reverb or delay I'll select the
compressor and then double-click polar
in the tool window so it auto routes
into my guitars signal chain let's reset
the device to remove the default preset
now my tone sounds no different than it
did before but if I adjust the shift
knob on the first pitch shifter you'll
hear pole art shift tastic result since
I want to play harmony lines and not
just shift my incoming signal I'll turn
on the dry signal voila
harmony signal processing like this can
introduce a short delay between the dry
signal and the harmony on polar however
you change the pitch shifter to respond
faster or slower while also selecting
between two different pitch shift
methods which have different tonal
characteristics your own performance and
music might benefit from different
speeds or algorithms at different times
let's engage the second shifter to add a
pitch and octave above the incoming
signal as well if I change the first
pitch to three semitones below you can
hear that we get a pretty jazzy harmony
from basic power chords let's record it
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nice in fact I know of a great refill
called the art of brushes that will add
a great vibe to this let's also add a
melody over the top of this one of the
classic jazz guitarists of all time Wes
Montgomery was famous for playing
melodies and parallel octaves without
being a master of wes montgomery's
technique I can achieve a similar effect
using polearm let's reset the device
turn on the dry signal set the algorithm
to fast and only use shifter one set to
minus twelve which is one octave below
instant wes if i want to i can adjust
volume of the dry and pitched signals
independently over the top of our polar
chords our guitar now sounds like this
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that's the most basic use of polar if
you want to create polyphonic harmony or
emulate artists like Wes Montgomery
Trevor Rabin and Brian May or bands like
Rage Against the Machine and Smashing
Pumpkins you're already pretty close
just using not let's go a little deeper
into polar and see its creative
potential for guitarists as well
to illustrate I'll now record the
world's most boring boring guitar parts
parts ever ever ever let's fix this I'll
start by adding a pole R to my guitar
tone signal chain and I'll reset it to
clear the settings I'll create a thick
sound by adding octaves above and below
my guitars pitch okay so far it's
thicker but still kind of boring
thankfully polar has a built-in delay
capability and an auto panner that can
take Polar's pitch shifting to a whole
other level let's turn the master delay
time up to 390 milliseconds
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now our octaves come after the original
pitch instead of at the same time it's
getting cooler but it's still not there
you'll notice shifter 2 has its own
delay knob
it runs in series 2 the first delay
which means that if I turn its knob up
to 390 milliseconds our super boring
guitar part is now doing something
actually quite interesting
you
to move it around the stereo field I'll
set the auto panner to add a bit of
stereo tremolo into the sound once you
start realizing the power of polar
you'll start using it all over the place
on this song I've added polar to every
guitar track I recorded harmonics but I
was able to shift them into the songs
key
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the combination of these two simple
performances makes for a rather unique
bed
thanks to poll our here it is with some
drums and bass and to round it out let's
put a three octave thick lead over the
top of it
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and polar is just getting started the
advanced features like envelope
selection the filter the LFO and the
delay buffer lock can take your sounds
even further in fact will soon have more
advanced tutorials from our product
specialists for you to go further for
now I invite you to explore experiment
and get inspired by pole
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