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I'm aware there are already board posts suggesting this, but I would like to make some additions to the idea as well as offer a real answer to, "why should this be added?"

Pitch Perfect

-I imagine it being more of a Quasar or Pulsar shape instead of a pedal. Obviously somewhere would be a pitch knob, in cents, 1200 up and down. A dry/wet knob and a makeup gain knob would sit to the far right of the interface.
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-A useful control would be the inclusion of a tone knob for the wet signal. In neutral 12 o'clock position, the pitched signal's tone is unchanged. As you turn the knob left it gradually engages a lowpass filter, and as you turn the knob right it gradually engages a highpass filter. This would be useful for cleaning up unwanted bass frequencies that accumulate when pitching down or exaggerated high frequencies that appear when pitching up.
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-In a different cluster of controls should be modulation options, with lfo rate, lfo wave shape (sinus, square, saw, side*), and range (also in cents 1200 up and down.) *An interesting feature would be the inclusion a sidechain input that uses the waveform of another signal to manipulate pitch in crazy ways. If side mode is selected, lfo rate would control the speed at which the sidechaining waveform is read. This is by no means an essential addition but it's some food for thought to make the device more unique.
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-My final suggestion is the inclusion of a "clean/dirty" switch. This would affect the quality of pitch tracking, accomplished by using different pitching methods. To me this is useful, because there are some applications where you want very clean pitchshifting, for example when pitching vocals, but shitty pitchshifting can be nice for designing gnarly sounds. Pitchproof is this free VST I have whose tracking is not the best, but I find myself using it a lot because its poor tracking adds this garbly lofi flavor that I really like. Even if not for this specific purpose, I think the option to select between different pitching methods would be helpful in general.

Pitch It To Me

So why is this effect essential? A dedicated pitch shifter has tons and tons of practical applications. You could pitch drums down an octave and mix the dry/wet to give them some boominess. With an automation on the pitch knob and some attention to detail, you could pitch correct your vocals right in the app. No more importing Melodyne or Newtone infested recordings into the cloud. When sampling for a beat, you would no longer have to stretch the sample beyond recognition to get it in key, nor would you have to rely on pitch delay (which does not sound very good, especially polyphonically) and nudge the sample a 16th note behind. And it could be a harmonizer, whammy, octaver, pitch modulator, unison, etc. It is an essential effect for Audiotool because it is an essential effect in music production!