This often is a question when you find yourself looking to transpose a song’s key higher or lower to a comfortable level to where you’ll be able to sing or play without a sweat over it.
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I was looking for a plug-in for Logic that does this job perfectly. A plug-in which transposes your song up or down, WITHOUT killing the formant of the music. A ‘formant’ is an acoustic resonance.
Here are two tracks; one original and one pitch transposed with a destroyed formant. I’ve used tracks I have uploaded toAudioJungle for sale.AudioJungleis a cool stock music site to buy and sell music by the way.
It’s not that logic does not have the tools to transpose songs without killing the formant or having its tempo affected. Somehow I feel the results are often not as solid. So I was searching up and low for new plugins that may help me in this transposing madness. Melodyne? Waves? Great plugins, but overpriced if all I want was a pitch transposer.
I’m sorry to spoil it again. But I found out Audacity does quite a great job on transposing! Here’s how I did it.
Again, the free editor to help us again.
Under effects its the ‘change pitch’ for transposing pitch without affecting tempo and formant.
Here I have the pitch changed from F to A. That’s a 4 semitones higher from the original pitch and let’s see how the processing of the audio clip turns out.
I think the results from Audacity is better, and it doesn’t destroy too much of the song’s tempo and formant. Try it!
You may think this is simple editing and processing. But harness the power of pitch transposing, and you’ll not only be transposing songs for yourself but also be remixing legendary remixes!
