Dropping one Octave.

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Dropping one Octave.

Post by curious_joejoe » Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:30 am

How do I drop one octave?
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Re: Dropping one Octave.

Post by steve » Thu Apr 24, 2008 4:44 pm

"Edit > Change Pitch" set it to -12 semi-tones.
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Re: Dropping one Octave.

Post by kozikowski » Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:25 am

Whatever you were doing, I bet it didn't work. I think the pitch of the performance went down one octave, but I bet it was unusable when it got there. Unless you were converting a pure tone, transferring a music performance much over about three semi-tones in either direction usually sounds terrible.

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Re: Dropping one Octave.

Post by steve » Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:37 am

kozikowski wrote:Unless you were converting a pure tone, transferring a music performance much over about three semi-tones in either direction usually sounds terrible.
You think so?
With Audacity 1.3.4 I was surprised at how good the quality was. Sure, a voice, percussive or unpitched sounds such as cymbals transposed more than a couple of semitones will sound strange, but the effect is devoid of the annoying artifacts that are common to real time pitch shifters.
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