VirSyn has now released PRISM - The Pitch Designer. Prism looks good aesthetically speaking. While I’ve yet to find out if it’s good in operation as well, I can say that I look forward to trying it.

Let’s have a look at the features:

- 27 band realtime frequency shifter.
- 27 band equalizer
- Linear phase precision filters for maximal transparency
- +/- 5 octaves frequency shift per band
- Envelope follower controlled pitch modulation.
- LFO controlled pitch modulation.
- Surround operation *
- Minimized latency ( 12 ms )

*only available for AU / RTAS / VST3 version.

And from the VirSyn press release:

PRISM splits the spectrum in 27 bands and applies a different amount of frequency shifting
to each band emulating a harmonic pitch shifting. This gives you perfect pitch shifting for all kind of drum sounds over a vast shifting range of +/- five octaves without disturbing the transients or introducing metallic distortions. With harmonic sounds you will get inharmonicities but it’s much better behaved than pure frequency shifting.

A fully functional/time limited demo version is available - a Syncrosoft Dongle (Steinberg Key) is needed.

PRISM introductory offer

From now till August, 31st, 2008 you can buy Prism for only €129 instead of €199. Users which owns the TakeFive FX Collection (Bark, Matrix, Reflect, TDesign and VTape) will get Prism for free. This offer is valid till August, 31st 2008