Sound card question

[lykaon78]

Looking for a sound card where you can adjust the octave of music through the sound card hardware settings. Basically, the sound card would manipulate any source played through it to lower or raise the octave.

Anyone seen anything like this?

I'm guessing there are software programs that will do this at an individual program level but I'm really interested in a hardware option or at least something that controls sound regardless of the source (eg cd, iTunes, YouTube, windows media player, etc...).

Thanks

 

[Alex Sinov]

Don't know if something like this exists. Pitch modifying is somewhat of a DJ hardware item and I didn't see anything like this ever.
By "hardware settings" I'm excluding driver manipulation.

 

[Selenium_Glow]

Nearly every onboard Realtek card I've used so far has a software setting suite bundled with the drivers, which allow such modification. So you go to the realtek sound settings, and move octave up or down, the pitch changes instantaneously.

For hardware stuff, I remember working with a rackmount sound card (It was a Motu) in a studio which had a pitch shift knob. That was expensive hardware though.

 

[richaron]

I have pitch shift/modulation on an old ua-4fx audio interface, no longer in production i think.

If you want a "sound card" to do it "hardware", you want an audio interface with appropriate effects.

 

[lykaon78]

I may have overstated the hardware requirement. I was trying to articulate that the hardware settings would allow for changing of the pitch or octave. I suspect this is similar to what Selenium_Glow has suggested.

 

[lykaon78]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16829270006

I wonder if the "Unique karaoke functionality: mic echo, key shifting, vocal cancellation" feature mentioned in this product is what I'm looking for?