Pitch Shifting Dialog

In this dialog, you can change the pitch of a sound.

  • To open the Pitch Shifting dialog, select the Process tab in the Audio Editor, and click Pitch Shifting in the Time & Pitch section.

Semitones

Allows you to specify the amount of pitch change in semitones.

Cents

Allows you to specify the amount of pitch change in cents.

Find Current Pitch of Audio Selection

Analyzes the pitch of the selected audio and displays it below this button.

According to the current pitch, compute the required shift to match the key hereafter

Click to adjust Amount of Shift parameters automatically, based on the detected pitch and the pitch specified in the value field below this button.

Pitch field

Specifies the resulting pitch.

Length Preservation

Specifies how the length of the selection is affected by the operation:

  • A setting of 100 means that the length of the audio remains unchanged.

  • A setting of 0 means that the program behaves like a tape recorder, when the speed of its tape is changed. For example, if you raise the pitch by one octave, the audio is half as long.

  • Intermediate values give results in between these two extremes.

For large transposition values, the lower this setting, the better the quality of the effect.

Quality pop-up menu

Select whether you want to use the Standard Quality or the Quick Process.

Correct Formants

If this option is activated, changing the pitch of vocal material gives a more realistic result. When processing non-vocal material, leave this option deactivated, because it uses a slightly slower processing algorithm.

Note

This algorithm might cause a noticeable increase in signal level.