Audacity Forum

Hi everyone,

I'm rather new to Audacity. I've been fooling around with it for a bit, but some of the advanced stuff I can't seem to understand. As the title says, I want to make a mashup, or remix, of a few songs. First, though, I need some help! I probably won't remember everything I need help with, so I'll post more on this thread as I recall more and progress to more issues.

1. Syncing the pitch. Remixes don't work unless all the songs are in the same key! It seems that different parts of the song are in different keys. This probably isn't true, and the changing pitch isn't registering it.

2. Removing beats or syncing them. It sounds disgusting to have two different beats off-sync. Again, if I can't sync them, I should get rid of them. But how do I silence them without silencing the good instrumental stuff on top of it?!?

Those are the fundamentals for now, I'll certainly have more for later.

For extra information, I'm trying to mix "Mad" by Ne-Yo and "Love In This Club" by Usher. I'm going to try to add a few more later.

Thank you so much for your help in advance, guys!

~Newbie, but not for long hopefully!

<<<1. Syncing the pitch. Remixes don't work unless all the songs are in the same key! It seems that different parts of the song are in different keys. This probably isn't true, and the changing pitch isn't registering it.>>>

You can avoid problems like this if all your music clips are converted to WAV (or AIFF. WAV works with any computer) and then mix them in with each other. Audacity is a terrible converter. I think you can get iTunes to do this with its Import Preferences.

Second, Audacity is not a grand champion at doing what you want to do, particularly in 1.2. Audacity 1.2 had some very basic and in some cases crude tools. I say had, because if you have an advanced enough Mac (Intel/Leopard) pieces of 1.2 will no longer work.

You can get Audacity 1.3.7 from here...

http://audacity.googlecode.com/files/au ... -1.3.7.zip

You can have both 1.2 and 1.3 on your Mac as long as you don't launch both at once.

<<<2. Removing beats or syncing them. It sounds disgusting to have two different beats off-sync. Again, if I can't sync them, I should get rid of them. But how do I silence them without silencing the good instrumental stuff on top of it?!?>>>

You can't take music apart.

Koz