Varying the pitch on an audio file?

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2010/12/21 20:18:26 (permalink)

Varying the pitch on an audio file?

Hi guys!

I'm new to Music Creator 5, and I used it for about a week before I rebuilt my desktop and reinstalled everything again. Before the switch over, I had been fooling around with the pitch wheel controller in the MIDI piano roll. Here's what I mean.

Now, somehow I was able to do the same sort of flexible pitch variation (Wheel) to an audio clip. It was a clip of Tibetan noise singers, and I was able to vary the pitch of their singing just as I could with the MIDI track.


Now, for the life of me, I can't find out how I did it. All of the forums seem to indicate that you can't do this with an audio track, just MIDI. I upgraded to 5.0.5 when I reinstalled...could that have anything to do with it?

I swear I was able to manipulate the pitch this way, but I haven't been able to figure it out again!

Any clues? Thanks!
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    57Gregy
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    Re:Varying the pitch on an audio file? 2010/12/21 21:01:53 (permalink)
    Welcome to the forum.
    I have no clue and would state that it is impossible except you wrote that you did it.

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    Re:Varying the pitch on an audio file? 2010/12/21 21:07:55 (permalink)
    This thing does it>>>  key changer

    Cake used to have that function and still might in the bigger packages like SONAR.
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    Re:Varying the pitch on an audio file? 2010/12/21 21:43:23 (permalink)
    Thanks for the link--- I'll check it out. I feel crazy, as I'm positive I did this in Studio 5. Oh well!
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    Re:Varying the pitch on an audio file? 2010/12/22 08:17:18 (permalink)
    you might have... I don't have it so I can't tell you for sure.

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    Re:Varying the pitch on an audio file? 2010/12/22 10:54:22 (permalink)
    I did this in Studio 5

     
    What's Studio 5?
    Cakewalk/SONAR Home Studio 5? I don't think there was a HS 5. Or Music Creator 5?

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    Re:Varying the pitch on an audio file? 2010/12/22 10:56:14 (permalink)
    You can change the pitch in MC4 on a clip. I believe it's part of the properties. You have to adjust a number of the variables to get it to work decently, though.

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    Re:Varying the pitch on an audio file? 2010/12/22 11:39:32 (permalink)
    You can make the audio file into a groove clip by right clicking and choose groove clip looping, than right click on that groove clip and choose properties, there you can change
    the pitch.

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    Re:Varying the pitch on an audio file? 2010/12/22 12:11:31 (permalink)
    I'm pretty sure the OP wants to modulate the pitch of an audio track in real time with his MIDI controller's pitch wheel. Like a tremolo.

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    Re:Varying the pitch on an audio file? 2010/12/22 12:57:21 (permalink)
    I would think that if you could do that you would be very lucky to get even marginal results with audio. If you pulled it off it would be an anomally

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    Re:Varying the pitch on an audio file? 2010/12/22 12:59:58 (permalink)
    Robomusic


    I would think that if you could do that you would be very lucky to get even marginal results with audio. If you pulled it off it would be an anomally

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    Re:Varying the pitch on an audio file? 2010/12/22 13:04:00 (permalink)
    Still not exactly what the op asked for, but in loop construction view there is a function called pitch envelope where you can draw in  a pitch for every slice.

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    Re:Varying the pitch on an audio file? 2010/12/22 13:07:52 (permalink)
    Just like Sony acidized loops, but that would be on a loop by loop basis, not in smooth real time. But it might solve some of the problem

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