Polyverse Music has dropped episode seven of its Modulate This! series, and this one is all about the Pitch Detector inside their Filterverse plug-in. Hosted by Psytrance and synth wizard Adrenakrohm, the video shows how the Pitch Detector can grab the pitch from audio sources like clarinet, saxophone, or vocals and turn it into a modulation signal. That means your filters can follow the melody in real time, even when there’s no MIDI involved.
Across the episode, Adrenakrohm runs through several creative examples. He first uses a clarinet and saxophone to show how pitch-tracked filtering can boost overtones, smooth out tracking with low/mid/high range settings, or even remove specific harmonics using a band-reject filter and pitch offsets like +12 or +24 semitones. In another standout moment, he routes the clarinet as a sidechain source to control filtering on a drum loop-making the drums “play” the clarinet’s melody and turning pitch into a powerful sound-design tool.
All of this happens inside Filterverse, Polyverse’s experimental filter plug-in that focuses on both classic tones and wild, futuristic textures. The Pitch Detector is just one of its many modulators, but this episode makes clear how much life it can bring to otherwise static sounds. The series has one episode left, where Adrenakrohm will move on to the oscillator module.
Here is the video:
And here is the playlist with all the video tutorials from this series:
