Waves SoundShifter

Waves SoundShifter | The Ultimate Time & Pitch Manipulation Tool

Waves SoundShifter is a top-tier plugin trusted by audio engineers and producers worldwide, renowned as the industry's most advanced time and pitch-shifting solution. In the realm of digital audio processing, the most demanding challenge is stretching time and transposing pitch without introducing artifacts or digital noise. SoundShifter was created precisely for this purpose, offering unparalleled audio quality and precision. It allows you to effortlessly change a song's key, tempo, and duration, and even freely create within the time-pitch continuum to achieve sonic effects previously unattainable.

Whether you are an expert in Time-Stretching for precise timing in film scoring, a music producer performing seamless Pitch-Shifting for vocalists, or a mix engineer needing creative sound design during the mixing stage, SoundShifter is your indispensable tool. This powerful toolkit includes three components optimized for different tasks, ensuring the cleanest and most transparent results in any audio post-production scenario. It's not just a tool; it's a key DAW plugin for elevating the professional quality of your work and expanding your creative sonic boundaries.

Key Features & Use Cases

Unparalleled Sound Quality & Algorithms
Powered by Waves' exclusive, advanced algorithms, SoundShifter preserves the clarity, dynamics, and transient details of the original audio to the maximum extent, even under extreme stretching or shifting operations. It avoids common phasing issues or muddiness, ensuring a broadcast-quality professional finish.

Music Production & Remixing
Easily adjust the tempo of an entire song or a single instrument track to match a new BPM, or transpose vocals and instrument samples to fit into a new harmonic progression. For DJs and electronic music producers, it's the perfect tool for creating remixes and mashups.

Film & TV Post-Production
In film ADR (Automated Dialog Replacement) or sound design, precisely syncing audio length to picture is crucial. SoundShifter can perfectly stretch or shorten dialogue and sound effects to fit the video timeline without altering the pitch, significantly boosting workflow efficiency.

Vocal Processing & Harmony Creation
Perform subtle or drastic pitch correction on a singer's vocal track, or quickly create rich, natural-sounding harmony layers by duplicating tracks and applying different amounts of pitch shifting, adding color to your song.

Deep Integration with Pro Tools
For Pro Tools users, SoundShifter offers exclusive AudioSuite functionality, allowing you to apply fixed-ratio time and pitch transformations to selected audio clips. You can even draw automation graphs to achieve dynamic, continuously varying speed and pitch effects, providing immense creative freedom.

Tech Specs

• Plugin Type: Time-Stretching, Pitch-Shifting Effect Plugin
• Processing Mode: Real-time and Offline (AudioSuite)
• Plugin Formats: VST2, VST3, AU, AAX Native, AudioSuite
• Supported Sample Rates: 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz, 176.4 kHz, 192 kHz
• Internal Processing: 64-bit floating-point
• Channel Support: Mono and Stereo
• Latency: SoundShifter Parametric (real-time mode) has processing latency, the amount of which depends on the settings; SoundShifter Pitch/Time are offline processors and have no real-time latency.
• System Requirements (Mac): macOS Catalina 10.15, Big Sur 11, Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14; Intel Core i7 / Apple M1 or higher; 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended)
• System Requirements (Windows): Windows 10 64-bit (22H2), Windows 11 (22H2); Intel Core i5 / AMD Quad-Core or higher; 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended)
• Authorization: Waves Central online license management (internet connection required for installation and authorization)