Audio Pitch Question

[Wavelabs]

I am trying to change the pitch of an audio vocal
without changing the speed of that vocal.

I am only going 4 semitones down.

the original key of the song is in B-min.
but when playing keyboards to this vocal, it sounds like total crap.
I did not like how it sounded on that key, so I decided to change the key and I said to myself,
I can do better 4 semitones down.

so what I did was created a great bassline and keyboards 4 semitones down
from B-min and the track itself sounds much better.
but now I just need to bring the vocal down.

NOTE:
AGAIN --> there is no [right click] menu to choose change pitch or at least
a right click menu to change by semi-tones.

other than my major complaint about this.

I would like someone to please inform me as to how to change the pitch
to a vocal audio without having to change the time of that vocal.
I tried [AudioSuite] pitch shift and only change the pitch 4 semitones down.
and the vocals sounds horrifying and sounds like the devil came from hell
bass toned vocal.

I am very shocked because I am only going 4-semitones down
and NOT an octave or two.

its strange how this is behaving.


im using a second friends system


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[TOM@METRO]

4 semi-tones is a huge jump for a vocal. you will not retain the original character.

The best plug-in I have found for this kind of thing is Pitch 'n Time Pro from Serato.

[Wavelabs]

Every time I change the Pitch the darn tempo changes.
im getting frustrated about it.
If I only want to change the pitch of something,
it should not change the tempo of it.


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[JoshuaD]

Wave: Pitch and tempo are inexorably linked; pitch is determined by how fast the wave oscillates. To accomplish what you want to do, you'll have to both lower the pitch and then increase the speed. I would bet that there is a plug-in out there that does just this with one button (Isn't there one in the waves bundle?), but you can probably do it yourself with a little tweaking of two separate plug-ins.

[Wavelabs]

See this is what seriously pisses me off about Digidesign / AVID.
Protools should be able to do this.
thats why its a DAW, its suppose to do these types of tasks
but it does not.
You have to go through hell and back in Protools for you to do this.

Now I am forced to go into Steinberg Wavelabs program and try it there.
Since Wavelabs has better built in plugins for this sort of stuff.

I can't believe I can not do everything in protools.
Its always having to buy buy buy buy 3rd party programs
for something that Protools is suppose to do right out of the box.

Not everyone is made out of cash flow or have a money tree in their back yard.

I wish I could just sit down with these guys in their programming studios
I would make Protools far more DJ friendly and better for DJ's / Remixers.
mostly in the dance music remixing business.


Here is the eye opener, Logic 9 does this out of the box and does it properly.
and the user does not have to spend 300 bucks for a 3rd party program to do it either.
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Just like Normalizing,
I should be able to [Right Click] a audio region of my choice and select Normalize and that particular region gets normalized.
and
I should also be able to [Right Click] and select Gain +1 or Gain -1 from the right click menu
on a any audio region and the audio should do what I want it to do on that particular region which is to implement the gain I need..

just things like this out of millions of other things I wish Protools would do
but unfortunately does not without having to go through hell to do it.


Noise, Hiss or Hum plugin should already be part of Protools DAW
and not have to buy another 3rd party program to do it.


Just things that Protools should already do out of the box.


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[raffaella]

I want to use DAW software for special effects, not commercial production, so audiophile playback quality is crucial for me-as it THE most transparent pitch reduction/time expansion I can afford. Lots of DAW users still think that Serato PnT still sounds the best-better than Wavelab's 7's DIRAC and maybe even better than TimeFactory, since both are Stephan Bernsee creations. I can’t go with TimeFactory anyway as there’s only a Mac OS version and I've sunk $$$ into Windows gear. So if I buy Serato, Avid makes us Windows users buy m-powered ProTools-AND an M-Audio 2496 card to run it. But I strongly suspect that the Asus Xonar STX Essence card I want to buy has far better than sound than the M-Audio 2496 pci card. See the review on this card at http://www.stereophile.com/category/...audio-reviews/. So since M-powered PT won’t run without M-audio hardware, is there any way that I can have both soundcards installed in my desktop pc (or the Xonar card and a USB or Firewire external m-audio interface) and get good quality ProTools audio out of the Xonar card? If yes, please explain how to do this. Thanks.

[RichrdC]

I don't know.. Did you try putting elastic audio on just the vocal track and then highlight the whole vocal, then right click and see if the window comes up allowing you to go down the 4 semi tones... I don't think this changes tempo to the track. Could be wrong..