Elastique&VariAudio-Two great tastes that DON'T go together

…maybe I’m missing something here…

SB say that it is not possible to use Elastique for pitch changes.

But on p259 of the manual, it describes the algorithm “Elastique Pro Formant” which “preserves formants”.
Under what other circumstances would you want or need to preserve formants, other than when changing pitch?
This seems to suggest that elastique can in fact be used to change pitch (?)

The manual then goes on to describe 3 variants of this algorithm, “Time” , “Pitch” or “Tape”. With “Pitch” variant, it says “pitch accuracy is favoured over timing accuracy”. That seems a strange statement to make, if elastique cannot change pitch at all. :question: