Waves Audio has released the Torque Drum Tone Shifter plug-in.

With a great-sounding mix is rooted in the tonal balance of the drums, Waves Torque can enhance and re-pitch the tone of snares, toms, kicks or an entire kit, claiming ‘natural-sounding results that no traditional pitch shifter will allow’.

The plug-in is a precision drum tone shifter that will help users salvage mistuned drums, pitch them to a specific key and adjust their tone – without retriggering or replacing, without the sonic artefacts introduced by traditional pitch shifters, and without losing body, timbre, resonance or attack. Driven by Waves’ Organic ReSynthesis technology, Torque detects and analyses the drums’ formant, amplitude and carrier information, reassembles it, and allows users to manipulate the tonal and pitch characteristics, all while preserving the natural attack, resonance and duration of the original sound.

With intuitive controls and zero latency, Torque is aimed at both studio and live show applications, where FOH engineers can re-pitch problematic drum tone mid-show or mid-song.

More: www.waves.com