florida-trader
408 posts
Dec 12, 2013
1:13 PM
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I sing and play a little harp in a Southern Gospel Quartet. We will be performing this Sunday in church. Usually we are accompanied by a piano but this week we are using a backing track. The song starts in F and goes through three key changes. Unfortunately the backing track is in the key of “Somewhere between F and F#” (and then goes to somewhere between F# and G, and then…. You get the picture). I don’t have any harps in those keys.
Can anyone recommend a software program that I could use to slow the music down a bit to get it into tune? If I can do that and re-record it, then maybe I’ll get to play a little harp this Sunday. If not, I guess I’ll just be singing.
Thanks,
Tom
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Tom Halchak
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Silvertone
138 posts
Dec 12, 2013
1:30 PM
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"Audacity" will do that for you.You can change the pitch all by itself or you can change pitch, tempo or speed your choice.
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Todd Parrott
1168 posts
Dec 12, 2013
1:31 PM
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I can fix it if you send it to me.
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STME58
613 posts
Dec 12, 2013
1:52 PM
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Is the person who provided the track someone who does not like harp? You will know somethings up for sure if the piano turns up a quarter step sharp! :-)
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nacoran
7416 posts
Dec 12, 2013
7:53 PM
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Audacity will work fine. There are a couple trouble shooting steps though. Depending on how you are playing it back you may have to go through downloading the lame codec. (That's actually it's name!) It allows Audacity to export mp3s (it can't be including in the download because of some licensing issues, I think.) I think you can export it to other formats without the download, but it only takes a couple minutes to install and drop in the folder. Then just import the track, control+a to select all, then under effect, change pitch. Easy peasy. Export it back out and you should be good to go. :)
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Greg Heumann
2505 posts
Dec 12, 2013
8:09 PM
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Another alternative (and far less general purpose and therefore easier than Audacity) is a really great tool called "Amazing SlowDowner" - changes tempo and/or pitch, lets you loop over any section, etc.
More info at http://www.ronimusic.com
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Gipsy
38 posts
Dec 12, 2013
11:53 PM
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If I read Tom's post correctly, I'm not so sure the above suggestions will work. Both the above suggestions will allow tracks to be transposed by any number of semitones. However if the backing track isn't in an exact key ( somewhere between F and F sharp ) then surely changing pitch by any number of semitones, will only result in the new key being somewhere between, rather than in, a precise key.
In audacity you can slow down a track and this alters pitch but it is far from a precise correction.
If I'm correct, I think it might be necessary to use a full featured DAW which allows more precise adjustment of key.
Last Edited by Gipsy on Dec 12, 2013 11:56 PM
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arzajac
1220 posts
Dec 13, 2013
3:25 AM
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Audacity "Change pitch without changing tempo" can shift by full semitone or by 1/100th of a semitone. I just checked (version 2.00 - may even be an newer version available)
Just select a part of the piece with the tonic in it, change the pitch down by 10 or 20 hundredths of a semitone and click Preview. Tweak the number until it's bang on and then convert the whole piece by that value.
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florida-trader
409 posts
Dec 13, 2013
4:19 AM
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Thanks for all the help guys. I have Audacity and thought it was capable of doing what I need done.
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Tom Halchak
www.BlueMoonHarmonicas.com
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florida-trader
410 posts
Dec 13, 2013
4:54 AM
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Success! Thanks!
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Tom Halchak
www.BlueMoonHarmonicas.com
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