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Originally Posted by TweakHead

I was blown away with the IRIS's videos, and I'm pretty much used to sample editing and crazy sound design within the daw. There's one thing that needs mentioning here, they have this special technology for pitch shifting that works wonders, unlike most pitch shifting plug-ins on the market, it gives you a very natural feel without the usual artificial sounding artifacts (but sometimes this is just the sound we want eheh, I'm thinking that cubase's time stretch has become a trademark in psytrance...And it sounds cheap and alien like artificial). Think of something like the Eventide H3000 hardware (and there's a plug-in version of that that I'm interested in... do you guys knew about that? interesting times indeed), in that it allows you to time stretch stuff and keep it sounding natural. Ever heard of the Harmonizer effect?

http://izotope.com/products/audio/radius/

this is what I'm talking about. there's only support for the two daws mentioned, because it really integrates with it, but sounds wonderful. Because when you get into special treatment of samples, be it vocals or whatever, you want really pristine sounding fx...

But yeah, I also use my Virus as an fx unit. Have a stereo output from a channel on the daw that goes into the Virus's Inputs, just for that. If I eventually get the Korg-MS 20, I'm thinking that running even a vocal sample through it and patching craziness on tops would produce out of this world effect... And I'm a Logic user, really happy with it. But I also play with Ableton sometimes, it begun with an interest for a Live interface (also came with my sl remote mk2) and later got more interested in its features and sometimes use the rewire thing on that

Too bad that Izotope Radias you sent me does not work ALSO as standalone, as you may have see IRIS indeed does--works as a VST Plugin or totally standalone...IRIS also has properties of ALOT of other Izotope products to INCLUDE that time stretch and there's a FREE Demo to try it!