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sinecera
New member
I'm looking at downloading reaper. It says it can change pitch. How does the music sound after pitch is changed. Are there any examples that may have been posted here previously?
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TimOBrien
New member
Download it and try it yourself.
The download is only 4mb, doesn't muck up your pc and is fully functional except for a nag screen at launch.
The download is only 4mb, doesn't muck up your pc and is fully functional except for a nag screen at launch.
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
You don't usually use it on the whole mix (unless that is an FX that your going to want to achieve) just a little say like on the vocal track, but you have to be real close to on pitch for it to sound some what natural.
If not it's just a FX trick that everybody and their brother has now used.
Armistice
Son of Yoda
Cool... a chipmunks plug in!
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
gone are the days of helium filled studios. 
grimtraveller
If only for a moment.....
When you say "change pitch", what do you mean exactly ? What are you trying to achieve ? Do you intend to record an entire song and then speed it up or slow it down or do you intend to record certain parts at a different pitch before putting it back to normal ?
There's a difference and depending on how you do it, both can be totally unnoticeable. If you've recorded a song but you think it's a bit too fast or a bit too slow, by changing the pitch up or down by a semitone (say, C to C# or Eb to D) I doubt whether anyone would be able to notice. If you went up or down by a tone or more (say, from G to A or G to F), then you'd possibly start to sound too chipmunk-y or stoned out of your gourd.
On the other hand, if you're recording elements at a different pitch, it can make a great difference. If the song you're recording has been tracked but the vocal part is making you strain because it's too high, going down a semitone will probably become well comfortable for you or whoever to sing in. Or you can have just two vocalists doing backing vocals, recorded at different pitches (speeds), say 5, and when put together they can sound like an incredible choir. Or if you want to nail a guitar, mandolin or keyboard solo, you can slow the recording right down so the pitch is LLLLOOOOWWW and work out the notes. If you choose the right notes in the right place at the right pitch and do your solo, when you go back to normal speed, you'll sound like a fast twelve fingered octopus genius that Hendrix or Chick Corea took lessons from. And people will gasp at such dexterity and no one will know what jiggery pokery has taken place.
You ask if there are songs here that have had the pitch changed, but they all could. Unless someone has gone for the obvious chipmunk/stoned ranger effect, you'd probably never know.
So the capacity to change pitch can be a useful feature. Personally, I wouldn't even entertain the thought of having a DAW or multitracker that didn't have this feature.
There's a difference and depending on how you do it, both can be totally unnoticeable. If you've recorded a song but you think it's a bit too fast or a bit too slow, by changing the pitch up or down by a semitone (say, C to C# or Eb to D) I doubt whether anyone would be able to notice. If you went up or down by a tone or more (say, from G to A or G to F), then you'd possibly start to sound too chipmunk-y or stoned out of your gourd.
On the other hand, if you're recording elements at a different pitch, it can make a great difference. If the song you're recording has been tracked but the vocal part is making you strain because it's too high, going down a semitone will probably become well comfortable for you or whoever to sing in. Or you can have just two vocalists doing backing vocals, recorded at different pitches (speeds), say 5, and when put together they can sound like an incredible choir. Or if you want to nail a guitar, mandolin or keyboard solo, you can slow the recording right down so the pitch is LLLLOOOOWWW and work out the notes. If you choose the right notes in the right place at the right pitch and do your solo, when you go back to normal speed, you'll sound like a fast twelve fingered octopus genius that Hendrix or Chick Corea took lessons from. And people will gasp at such dexterity and no one will know what jiggery pokery has taken place.
You ask if there are songs here that have had the pitch changed, but they all could. Unless someone has gone for the obvious chipmunk/stoned ranger effect, you'd probably never know.
So the capacity to change pitch can be a useful feature. Personally, I wouldn't even entertain the thought of having a DAW or multitracker that didn't have this feature.
The Cancers
New member
As far as reaper specifically, it comes with a pitch change vst effect(where you can change the pitch of a single track by various amounts using various different algorithms and with lots of fine-tuning options like formant shift and wet/dry mix control), a tuner vst effect (where you can do anything from minor, semi-transparent pitch correction all the way up to midi-controlled autotuning like the radio says you should) and there's also a slider bar on the bottom of the main tracking window that lets you alter the speed of the entire project (as continuously variable multiples of 100% of it's regular speed - ie the default is 1.0, slide it up to 1.2 and you're whole project plays at 120% of normal speed with the resultant chipmunky pitch-shift upwards) which is fun to play with but which I haven't found too much use for yet since I haven't been able to find any automation controls for it, though I really haven't looked too hard for them.
But, yeah, like TimObrien said, download it and try it out yourself.
It's plenty powerful, so I'd recommend reading the user guide as you play around with it before deciding it doesn't do what you want it to (because I'm willing to bet it's capable).
But, yeah, like TimObrien said, download it and try it out yourself.
It's plenty powerful, so I'd recommend reading the user guide as you play around with it before deciding it doesn't do what you want it to (because I'm willing to bet it's capable).