Pitch Shift problem

Nicholas194 wrote on 7/28/2018, 8:24 PM

Hello,

 

I tried using pitch shift to slow down songs and upload to youtube. I generally like songs slowed down and I feel as if I can make songs even sadder with the pitch shift slowing down the song, and of course the pitch shift itself. I do not want to preserve the duration, but with this comes a problem which I don't know how to solve. Sometimes the audio skips, and although the song is lengthened as the pitch shift goes lower, the actual mp3 file that was important and initialized into Sony Vegas isn't actually getting longer. Which means that the song will either cut randomly at the end or try to skip parts of the song to end on time. Any way to get past this?

 

Thanks,

Nick.

Comments

Former user wrote on 7/28/2018, 8:36 PM

If you are using MP3s as the source, don't. They will cause problems. Convert them to PCM WAV before trying to do any editing or effex.

Nicholas194 wrote on 7/28/2018, 9:57 PM

If you are using MP3s as the source, don't. They will cause problems. Convert them to PCM WAV before trying to do any editing or effex.

Thank you for the reply! Unfortunately, this still does not work for me. It also has that weird cut at the end to meet the original mp3's ending timestamp.

Nicholas194 wrote on 7/28/2018, 10:02 PM

If you are using MP3s as the source, don't. They will cause problems. Convert them to PCM WAV before trying to do any editing or effex.

I just found the problem. I was using a different plugin rather than sony vegas itself, which didn't have the option to stretch the audio with the pitch shift.

Former user wrote on 7/28/2018, 10:03 PM

Glad you figured it out, but I still recommend using WAV files for source, even if you have to convert from MP3 first.

rraud wrote on 7/29/2018, 11:56 AM

If you have Sound Forge Pro, you can alter the sample rate which exhibits the same result of a pitch control on a pro tape recorder. The speed and pitch go up/down with the sample rate change. It can be re-sampled back to a standard sample rate to save the revised tempo/pitch. This does not create annoying artifacts like the plug-ins can.
I do not know if this can be done with the SF Audio Studio version.

I concur with david, MP3 and other lossy audio file types should be avoided until a end user file is needed.