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| My daughter has a science project where she is testing what pitch people prefer. She's going to record herself playing a few bars of music on the piano. Once she has that recording, she wants to use software to change the pitch (raise it or lower it a few notes) so that she can ask her subject pool which pitches they prefer.
Is there any really easy software to use that will accomplish this? basically making it a few notes higher or lower. Thank you.
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| Hi Lynn, Take a look here, I'm sure others will have ideas too. Joe |
Here is a link that might be useful: pc world
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- Posted by lynnalexandra (My Page) on Sat, Oct 27, 12 at 13:39
| Thanks, Joe. Unfortunately that program does not change just the pitch. You can only change pitch if you're also changing tempo (and we want to avoid any other changes - i.e., the only manipulated, independent variable will be pitch). Too bad. It was looking promising until I got to the bottom where it said pitch couldn't be changed without also changing tempo. Lynn. |
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| "but you can't change pitch alone simply to drop or raise the key a half- or whole-tone." Unfortunately, this might not work for your daughter since it sounds as if you must also alter tempo. I'm curious about this, so I'll see if I can find anything else. |
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| From what I see Audacity, may help from what I understand it has an effects area where pitch can be changed.. |
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| In searching, the only free program I could find to do the job is Audacity. Garage Band can also do it, but that's for Mac's, isn't it? You might find tutorials for changing pitch with Audacity. Worth a search. |
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| In searching, the only free program I could find to do the job is Audacity. Garage Band can also do it, but that's for Mac's, isn't it? You might find tutorials for changing pitch with Audacity. Worth a search. |
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| One of the videos on this page might help. |
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- Posted by chuggerguy (My Page) on Sat, Oct 27, 12 at 15:35
| Options I see in Audacity:
I barely know the difference between Pitch and Tempo though so maybe that's not what you need. |
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- Posted by lynnalexandra (My Page) on Sat, Oct 27, 12 at 15:44
| You guys are the greatest. What a wonderful, helpful community (and frankly, just what I needed after a very tough week of people being difficult, unhelpful and irresponsible). Thanks. I love the tutorials for Audacity - and will probably want to play around with that some. But before I got those responses, I did some more searching and found a very simple program called MP3 Key Changer. It allows you to save up to 3 versions for free - so that will suffice for my daughter's purposes of creating one higher pitched and one lower pitched version. The free version may also save only a portion of the song - but my daughter only needs a few bars, not the whole song. The full software costs $45. So if we want further transposing, I think we'll learn Audacity. In case anyone finds this thread and is interested, this free download trial from CNET can be found here: http://download.cnet.com/MP3-Key-Changer/3000-2139_4-10463799.html My daughter loves singing, though. And I can imagine her learning audacity to change the background tracks so she can sing any song she wants in her own key. Bob - your links were great places to start learning Audacity. And Chugger - your screen shots are worth a thousand words. My daughter is 13 - and not quite at the stage of intuitively figuring her way around software. Thanks everyone. |
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| I believe that winamp (www.at winamp.com) will do what you require. It will change the tempo, slow down/speed up, and change the key. |
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