shifting the pitch of an audio track

Hi:
 
When I use the cakewalk tuner plug in, several of my audio tracks appear to be flat by about half of a semitone. I would like to change the pitch of such tracks so that they are perfectly on pitch.
 
The only plug in I seem to have (I am using sonar 8.5 x64) is the transpose function (under the process menu). This function, however, only changes the pitch by increments of a semitone and nothing less. Accordingly, it will not fix my issue.
 
Any ideas how I can shift the pitch of my audio tracks by less than a semitone?
 
Thanks.

You can insert pitch shift into the track. The native pitch shift is basic, but might work.

For the track you want to adjust:
 

1. Hover over the area FX/None and you'll see a tool tip: Right Click to Patch an Effect
2. From there: Select > Audio Fx > Cakewalk > Pitch Shifter
3. Set it to:

Pitch Shift = {var}
Dry Mix = 0
Wet Mix = 100
Feedback = 0
Delay Time = 0
Mod Depth = 50.00ms

V-Vocal will only work on mono clips, not stereo.

If you need to transpose, use the Process/Transpose option and from there you have access to the excellent iZotope radius algorithms for pitch shifting.

For tuning, V-Vocal would probably be best.

Just a though, I've never used V vocal but I've read that it does sometimes trash the sound somewhat. So make sure you apply it to something you can revert to the original after wards.
If correcting the pitch of those tracks does not work out you can always tune your MIDI and overdubs to that pitch.
In the past with analog we sometimes ended up with a tape machine that played a little off from another. A test tone at A 440 was used in the lead in so you would calibrate your tuner to that and then tune the overdub instruments accordingly.

OK - I tried the pitch shifter and nothing seems to happen (i.e., no change in pitch). I have done a search on this forum to find out how pitch shifter works, with no luck. Does anyone know of a link so I can find out how the pitch shifter plug in works? Thanks.

Cactus Music


Just a though, I've never used V vocal but I've read that it does sometimes trash the sound somewhat. So make sure you apply it to something you can revert to the original after wards.
If correcting the pitch of those tracks does not work out you can always tune your MIDI and overdubs to that pitch.
In the past with analog we sometimes ended up with a tape machine that played a little off from another. A test tone at A 440 was used in the lead in so you would calibrate your tuner to that and then tune the overdub instruments accordingly.

V-Vocal is nondestructive. If you've got V-Vocal on a track, enable your layers and you'll see the original clip, muted, below the V-V clip in a separate layer.
 
It can alter the sound significantly, but this depends an awful lot on the source material you're working with.

Yes, I agree totally.

If, as the OP stated, his recorded audio tracks are off by half a semitone, then the first and only real remedy is to get his instruments tuned, and in tune with each other, and re-record everything.

This is an attempt to "fix it in the mix" which can lead to some great results, in about 10% of cases, but the most natural & pleasing result is to re-track.

I have been adding an octave to guitar parts for a sorta mandolin air. Usually the Sonar Pitch-shifter 2 works OK.

For a track with an electric piano type sound I found the CW PitchShifter 2 generated way too many out-of-tune artifacts. I tried 2 steps at a time. But nooooooo!

So I I did the web search for shift plugs. Tried a bunch, including madshifta, pitchshifter2,  Audacity, and all the Reaper algorithms.

The best of the bunch is the Reaper Dirac LE slow.

None of these are real time shifters, all offline.

To get the real time pitch shifter in sonar to be listenable: archive most other tracks to reduce Sonar's heavy burden.

J

jm24

Usually the Sonar Pitch-shifter 2 works OK.

J

I can't get the Pitch-Shifter 2 plug to work. Maybe it's because I'm running SPE8.5.3 x64.

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