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Adjusting pitch for songs

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Buzzex

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Hi guys,

Im new at this forum and find it very interesting here... I bought my first portable md recorder, a sony MZ-R55 quite a few years ago. This because i was mixing as a hobby and wanted to record my mix sessions. With this recorder (old skool) i had to record using the line in of the unit.

If i wanted to make a minidisc to listen to some songs on my way to work, I would use winamp to select the songs i would like to put onto the minidisk and just record (using the line in) while playing the playlist.

Sometimes, especially when recording older songs, i used a pitch control plugin for winamp to make a song play a bit faster.

I still own this unit and this method of recording worked fine but since i was recording with the line in, it obviously took alot of time.

Now i recently bought a sony MZ-NF810 from a friend. I was very happy with it, since i could use LP2 and LP4 functions to put more music on the minidiscs.

Also the software (Sonicstage) was very nice, since transfering songs to a minidisk took much less time!

The only problem i have now is this:

As i mentioned earlier, i sometimes boosted the pitch off the older songs i was recording on minidisk. But i can't seem to find a function with Sonicstage to do this.

Is there like a software plugin or something that can adjust pitch settings for a track you are recording to a minidisc or any other way to get this effect? Coz i would hate to go back to line in recording just for this.

Greetz,

Buzz

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are you changing the "Pitch"; or, the "Speed" only and leaving the pitch the same.

i don't know WHY you would want to change the pitch; but can understand changing the "Speed" and leaving the "Pitch" alone.

*there are many ppl out there with "Perfect" pitch that you would drive crasy; including every "Karokee" enthuziast!

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You can't do it directly in Sonic Stage (that I know of). You could use Audacity to adjust the speed of, say a wav file then re-import into SS. Keep in mind you would be "hard coding" the speed of playback into the file.

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