AvailableMIDI & ModulationExperimental

Pitchy

Turn a live voice or instrument into notes and expressive pitch.

@maru shared this module so you can play it in your DAW, remix it or put it on your site.

What it does

Sing, hum or play a single-note instrument, and Pitchy turns it into notes for a synth. It follows one melody from an audio input and sends it out as MIDI: either clean, stable notes or continuous pitch that keeps your slides and vibrato.

The idea

Pitchy is a MIDI source with an audio input, not a sound of its own. The instrument you connect after it decides the timbre, so a hummed line can come out as a lead synth, a bass or anything else that accepts expressive notes.

It has two ways of hearing you:

  • Continuous keeps every bend, slide and wobble. Each note is identified, and the exact pitch between notes travels with it as expression.
  • Quantized settles on stable notes, which is what you want for a melody you mean to play "in tune" on the synth.

Guide and controls

What would you make with Pitchy?

Describe what you want to make. Build it with the Studio agent.

Part of Voice to synth

Goes well with.

Building block

Analyze audio, inspect detected pitches, and export MIDI.

Prototype

A synth controlled through a visual tuning display.

Prototype

Draw polyphonic pitch slides as connected note gestures.