Vocal Transformer vs AUPitch

has anyone compared the Vocal Transformer to Apples AUPitch?
Although the controls are different they seem to do the same thing. Its as though they are both the same AU but with two different user interfaces. But I'm not sure. It seems that AUPitch is getting the same job done with less stress on GB and with less sonic artifacts than Vocal Transformer.
Has anyone compared the two?

Well after much experimenting I have found that Apples AUPitch is better for changing the pitch of a vocal track than Vocal Transformer.
I have found that Vocal Transformer introduces a number of odd sounding artifacts to a track particularly when changing the pitch upwards from male to female.
Granted neither AU does a completely realistic job when changing a male vocal to a female vocal but with the right amount of tweaking good results can be achieved.
I was able to fool some people into thinking a male track was actually a female singing when using Apples AUPitch. Whereas the Vocal transformer made the female track sound simply weird with mickey mouse swirly sound every now and then. More now than then actually.
Well just checking in!

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After reverting back to Garageband 6.0, I find that I still lack all the Garageband Effects (Distortion, Vocal Transformer, etc.). The Garageband 10 "AU" plug ins are there instead. I need help getting the old effects back.

For background: I lost my v6 because I had to reformat my whole hard drive. When I reformatted I lost GB and everything else I had. I downloaded GB (unaware of the awfulness that is v10) from the App Store. The fact that v10 does not have all my favorite and most used effects from v6, I uninstalled v10 and redownloaded v6 from my App Store Purchases. I load up v6 only to find that all the default effects are there for each instrument, but when I go to add an effect (i.e. Distortion, Vocal Transformer, Flanger, etc.), instead of the list of classic effects, there's the list of awful AU effects from v10. What gives?!

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Are you saying, that the upper part with "GarageBand Effects" is missing?
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/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/
(the topmost "Library" folder on your Hard Drive.
You may need to restore the old GarageBand effects and Track settings files from your backup:
i.e look into the folder /Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/Plug-In Settings/
and restore the settings for Chorus, Flanger, Vocal Transformer, Tremolo, whatever effects you are missing.
And also look for missing files in "Track Settings" folder and "Sampler" folder.
What kind of backup do you have? If you have a Time MAchine backup, go back in time to the time before you upgraded to GB 10.
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Léonie

TS5249 After reverting back to Garageband 6.0, I find that I still lack all the Garageband Effects (Distortion, Vocal Transformer, etc.). The Garageband 10 "AU" plug ins are there instead. I need help getting the old effects back.

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For background: I lost my v6 because I had to reformat my whole hard drive. When I reformatted I lost GB and everything else I had. I downloaded GB (unaware of the awfulness that is v10) from the App Store. The fact that v10 does not have all my favorite and most used effects from v6, I uninstalled v10 and redownloaded v6 from my App Store Purchases. I load up v6 only to find that all the default effects are there for each instrument, but when I go to add an effect (i.e. Distortion, Vocal Transformer, Flanger, etc.), instead of the list of classic effects, there's the list of awful AU effects from v10. What gives?!

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I've searched high and low and cannot find anything. I just purchased LE 9 last week and as I was gong through the Effects manual noticed that the "vocal transformer" I have is not the same as the one shown in the manual.
The one I have with LE 9 only has 2 parameters/sliders and is the old hideous brushed aluminum interface.
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I've searcehd the forums, not finding the issue I'm having.
I've imported a Garageband 6 file that has the vocal tranformer effect applied into Garageband 10. I can hear the effect on the track in 10, but cannot find where it's being generated from. There's no options in the smart controls other than "compressor, high pass filter, overdrive" and no button on top right to see any more options. But I can hear the tranformation. How do I access it?
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there is an effect that one can create in the track info pane of any given track, the one i'm reffering to is the 'vocal transformer' here u can change the pitch of the track, but i'm unsure of what the increments are in. ive changed the pitch up +5, so is that 5 semitones, tones, a fifth, what?
Also was wondering what the slider is underneath the pitch one, it just says sound high and low. I hope that this isn't too vague!
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So +5 is a fourth.
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