Transpose or changing key for the whole song

[thienbanguyen]

Is there anyway to change the key for the whole song for example from C to D? I can see Transpose feature but I won't able to click on "Apply" to make a change. Am I missing something? I recorded a sample track as audio track. Appreciate any help!

[Chase743]

You can definitely do this in Audio Suite. I just forget the exact option. Take a look there and give it a shot.

Just a note - I wouldn't recommend this for anything other than a demo. There definitely will be some quality degradation.

Once, I had to learn a popular song in another key, so I actually imported it into Pro Tools, and used this feature to transpose it. Didn't sound great, but it made practicing it a lot easier.

[thienbanguyen]

Thanks for the info. I was wondering about the quality as well and you did point it out. I'm new to Pro Tools and are recording my first demo piece. There are so many things I need to learn but so far so good. Next item is the drum beat.

[albee1952]

Midi can be transposed freely with no issues(if you print the audio from a midi instrument, you can transpose the midi track and reprint any time). As for audio tracks, Elastic Pitch can do it within a few steps, but I much prefer Serato Pitch 'n Time and have shifted plenty of songs by 3-4 half-steps with excellent results. If you try Elastic Pitch, copy the session(File>Save Session Copy...and check the box for "copy all audio files". The reason for this is; sometimes(too often for my taste) Elastic Audio( and Pitch) can leave gross artifacts. Having the original session available, makes a nice backup if you need to retrieve audio files to replace corrupted files(EA and EP can leave gurgling sounds sometimes). Use Elastic Pitch for transposing audio, you MUST use Polyphonic and then right-click the region to bring up Elastic Properties.

[thienbanguyen]

I will give it a try and see how that goes. Thanks for the tips!

[thienbanguyen]

Albee1852,

I finally figured out how to enable the track to elastic audio and followed your instruction to do the change and it works fine. Thank you!

[albee1952]

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[CherylD]

I have enabled the elastic pitch for my audio tracks. Then I am able to select the regions for each track and right click to bring up elastic properties, but I'm lost what to do from here. I see the semitones box, which goes up or down in + or - numbers, but I'm going down 1 1/2 steps (from Bb to G). I'm just not sure how to get there. I'm working in PT8.0.4.

Also what about my midi tracks? Will they adjust once my audio tracks have adjusted?

Thanks for any help.

[albee1952]

Originally Posted by CherylD

I have enabled the elastic pitch for my audio tracks. Then I am able to select the regions for each track and right click to bring up elastic properties, but I'm lost what to do from here. I see the semitones box, which goes up or down in + or - numbers, but I'm going down 1 1/2 steps (from Bb to G). I'm just not sure how to get there. I'm working in PT8.0.4.

Also what about my midi tracks? Will they adjust once my audio tracks have adjusted?

Thanks for any help.

-3 semitones is what you need to go from Bb to G. Midi tracks need to be done separately. Highlight the midi info and call up the midi transpose function(I think that's under the Events menu).

[CherylD]

Thank you so much. That worked beautifully for my audio tracks. However, I wasn't so lucky with my midi track. Let me ask you this. I deleted the information from my midi track once I transferred it to the instrumental track. I tried to do what you said about the midi transpose window, by lowering it -3 semitones, but that didn't work. Since I deleted the midi data, am I out of luck with the instrument track?