Gone Fission wrote:Digitech Harmony Man seemed okay but fizzled. Not as deep a box as the Pitchfactor and very limited preset capability. We're not gonna see a new super harmonizer from Digi, unfortunately.
EHX could maybe do one, though I haven't seen/heard them do intelligent shifting that tracks a scale. They probably won't because they do fine selling the same tech over and over in very small slices.
Boss has had pretty good intelligent shifters for years, and some cooler specialty tricks over the years, too. No one seems to value their pitch stuff beyond utilitarian use, though, so I can see why they wouldn't have tried a specialty box. (People who need these things just keep up with the GT multi effects and the VG systems with the hex pickups.)
Who else has the tech or capability?
I remember the harmony man, it looks nice but it is only limited to static intelligent harmonizing but im sure its great at that, the feature where you can send in a second instrument to control harmonies seems really cool. I have a digitech timebender and it has a very slimmed down version of the harmony man engine for repeats. It is cool cause you can make crazy stuff like an echoplex harmonizer.
For EHX I guess the ring thing touches the concept but its not a function monster like eventide and strymon stuff. I dont know much about the ring thing as a pitch shifter but i belive its single voice, which is a shame but it does a bunch of other cool things.
Boss had no business not making a PS20 and that has been my opinion since i first got into pedals and pitch shifters. They have a history of pretty killin' pitch shifters and all except the new one is a classic so it made no sense that they didnt make one. its not like boss are worried about stepping into weird territory, even with that series of pedals, the slicer and the waveshaper (yes boss made a dedicated waveshaper pedal) are the obvious.
I am baffled why no other company has stepped into the big-box biz with pitch shifting, everyone loves whammies, dadrockers alone are a huge market for intelligent harmonizers, and mathrock is just growing and growing. What I'm saying there has to be a market. I have three pitch shifters in my rig rn, two are huge and i always consider new ones for new sounds so having a unit that does everyhing would be great