How Do I Monitor Pitch?

Special Interest Groups Audio Processing
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This must be really simple, but I can’t find the answer. I want to read out the pitch during the song, sort of like the tuning fork in GarageBand. I want to be able to read out when I’m singing or playing back to see if I am slipping.

2

Well, especially when I’m singing. During playback it’s usually pretty obvious:)

3

I’ll move this topic to the “Adding features” section of the forum.
Audacity does not currently have a real-time tuner, in fact Audacity does very little in real time.

Perhaps you could use a stand-alone guitar tuner? If you have a smart phone there are some good cheap “tuner” apps available.

4

Okay, cool. Is there a plug in that will do it? I have external tuners, but that’s one thing I really like about GarageBand.

5

Not in “real time”. There is a plug-in that will tell you the note and frequency of something that you have already recorded, but that’s not what you want is it?

6

I could use that, too. Where is it?

7

Here: https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/pitch-detection-plug-in/29126/1

Instructions for installing Nyquist plug-ins are here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Download_Nyquist_Plug-ins#Installing_Plug-ins