Transpose Audio Garageband Ipad

Changing the key signature and pitch in Garageband is pretty straightforward.

Oct 28, 2012  Question: Q: Transposing Loops in Garageband. Anyone know how to transpose loops in Garageband? Audio Regions can be transposed up/down 12 semitones (one octave). The transposition value will be indicated in the Region with a semitone number in the lower left corner. Please note, this is a Region parameter not a. Dec 18, 2015 How to transpose audio tracks in garageband, change tempo and transposition of song at any position etc. You transpose loops in the track editor: Select the loop in the timeline of the track. Then adjust the pitch slider in the head of the Track Editor by the number of semitones you want to transpose the loop. I'm using GarageBand on iPad2, I do most of my own recordings. My question is can if I recorded a song with my guitar in key C, can I transpose it to a higher key on the iPad? I know on the Mac there is a pitch option but I can't find it on the iPad version of GarageBand. Please advice, thanks! My thanks in advance.

1) Open your GarageBand file.

2) At the top-center of the DAW, you should see four icons in order from left-to-right: the beat, the tempo, the time signature, and the key signature.

3) Typically, GarageBand has for its default setting the most common key signature in music, C Major, or as it’s written in the DAW (digital audio workstation), “Cmaj.”

4) Click on the Key Signature – “C Maj.”

5) Change it to the desired Key.

6) The moment you switch the key signature and play the track, you’ll notice it sounds higher or lower. It’s that simple.

But the main problem with this simple method is that you’ll change the key signature for other MIDI instruments in the song, and you may not want this.

For instance, if your drum tracks have been created using a MIDI-keyboard, changing the key signature will likely throw the drums completely off, changing kicks to snares, high-hats to cymbals, and snares to shakers.

Although, in some cases, it leaves your drum-kits alone, depending on what kit you’re using.

If you’re interested in changing the key signature for just one part of the song, check out the section below.

By the way, if you’re new to GarageBand, it doesn’t hurt to turn on the “Quick Help Button,” that way you can you hover your cursor over whatever is in GarageBand, and the software gives you a quick run-down of everything. It’s on the top-left-hand corner. For the vast majority of my “How To Guides,” I’ll be referencing the name of things as titled by GarageBand.

How To Change The Key Of One Track Without Altering The Others

1) Click on the music in your track.

2) Copy the file by double-clicking it, or using the two-finger method on your Mac.

3) Once you’ve copied your file, save it, and then open a new project.

4) Click on “Software Instrument.”

5) Now, set your “Software Instrument” to what you were using before.

6) Copy and paste your music into the track region.

7) Click the Key Signature, and then transpose the track into a new key.

8) Copy your new music.

9) Now close this file and open up your other file from which you copied your track.

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10) Open a new “Software Instrument,” and post your transposed music into it.

11) And voila, you’ve successfully changed the key of one track in your DAW.

If you want to change the pitch of ONE and not several “Audio,” tracks, whether it’s a guitar or microphone recording, and without altering the key signature of your other tracks, you have to do it another way, through a plug-in.

Important Things To Note

By modifying the key signature of your music in GarageBand, the pitch of the music will change either up or down, in accordance with a particular key signature. There’s a difference between changing just the pitch and the key signature.

Assuming you’re new to musical concepts, pitch refers to how low or high the note sounds. A high note means the sound wave is vibrating very fast, and a low sound means that it’s vibrating very slow. This is why when fast-forwarding a tape, the pitch of the sound is higher rather than lower.

Altering the key signature of a song transposes the music into a different key, so the music will sound the same, just at a higher or lower pitch, depending on to what key you’ve migrated. But if you switch music from a major key into a minor key, the tonality will shift from a happy-sounding to a sad-sounding piece of music.

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Transpose Audio Garageband

Transposing music means to change the overall position of the music, thus, changing its sound.

Adjusting the pitch, on the other hand, is a slightly different beast. Changing the pitch of every note in a musical passage by one semi-tone, for example, will likely create dissonance.

Dissonance is a fancy word for, “it just won’t sound quite right.”

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This is the case because the distance between notes changes depending on the key signature. For example, C to D is different by a full-tone, whereas E to F is just one semi-tone.

Looking at the keyboard above, going from C to C# is one semi-tone, (a half-step), whereas going from a C to a D is a whole-tone (full-step).

Thankfully, GarageBand comes with the ability to change the key of a specific passage when adjusting music from a MIDI keyboard or your laptop’s keyboard, rather than just adjusting the pitch.

How to Change The Key Signature (Pitch) Of An Audio Track

1) Double-click on your “Track Header,” and bring up where it shows your plug-ins down below in the “Smart Controls” settings.

2) Now go into your Plug-In options and choose the one that says, “Pitch.”

3) Choose “Pitch Shifter.”

4) Now you can select how by many semi-tones your “Audio” recording is either increasing or decreasing.

5)Make sure you turn the “Mix” option, up to 100%, that way it minimizes the original notes playing, and accentuates the pitch-corrected version.

The big problem with this, I find, is that it doesn’t sound nearly as good. It’s an imperfect transposition, because it changes every note by exactly a semi-tone or a full tone, rather than changing the notes so it fits in a particular key signature.

Aria fitbit scale mac addess. In other words, some of the notes will sound dissonant.

Another thing you can do is change the pitch using the “Pitch Correction function.”

How To Change The Pitch Using Pitch Correction

1) You do that by sliding the “Pitch Correction” bar to either the right or the left, depending on whether you want it to increase or decrease.

Another Way For Changing the Key (Pitch) Of Vocals.

1) Double click on your “Audio” vocals in GarageBand.

2) Open up a new “Track Header,” that says, “New Track With Duplicate Settings.”

3) Now go into where it says, “Voice,” on the left-hand side.

4) Click on, “Compressed Vocal.”

5) Now go into your “Smart Controls,” and select the option in the top of the bottom-right-hand corner that says, “Pedals Button,” when you hover over it with your “Quick Help Button” turned on.

It’s kind of hard to see, but I have the “Pedals Button,” circled with a black circle. It’s on the top-right-hand corner.

6) This will bring up a whole bunch of Analog-style pedals that people use when doing Analog rather than digital recordings.

7) Click on the Drop-Down Menu where it says, “Manual.”

8) Go down to “Pitch,” and change the pitch of the song to what you want. For the sake of an example, we’ll choose “Octave Up.”

9) That will make your vocals a lot higher, or you can choose one from the other 14 options listed.

That’s how you change the key signature or the pitch of your recordings in GarageBand. For the sake of clarification, I wrote a brief explanation of what key signatures exactly are, and how to go about using them.

It’s just an introduction, but it should help if you’re confused.

What Are Key Signatures And How Do I Use Them?

A key signature is a collection of all of the accidentals (sharps and flats) within a scale.

For example, a scale has seven notes. We’ll use the C Major Scale to illustrate the point.

The C Major Scale has 7 notes, beginning from C: C, D, E, F, G, A, B, and then C again.

From left to right, the scale is pictured below:

Assuming you’re a total beginner, the notes on top are the official musical notation, whereas, the numbers below are guitar tablature. There are serious advantages to learning how to read music as well as tablature if you’re a guitar player.

(I can’t lie to you, however, I’m a lot better at reading tablature, as I’m sure a lot of other people are).

Beside the treble clef, you’ll notice there aren’t any sharps (#) or flats (b). In the Key of C Major, there are none, but, if we were to transpose the key up to E Major, it would change.

In Key Of E Major, there are four sharps: F, C, G, D.

From the order of left to right, you can see there are four sharps, F, G, C, D. The scale below is an E Major scale written in the corresponding tablature for the guitar.

Technically, this piece of music is written so that it’s still in the Key Of C because there aren’t any sharps and flats written beside the Treble Clef, which is the thing that looks like a sophisticated G on the left side of the 4/4 symbol (time signature).

Now, I’m going to write the music so it’s in the Key Of E Major. Beside the Treble Clef in the image below, I’ve put a circle around the four sharps, which indicate this piece is in the Key Of E.

Whenever you see 4 sharps before a piece of music, you know it’s in the Key Of E.

Also, you can see that you don’t have to write the sharps beside the music notes anymore. There’s no need for that because the music reader knows we’re in the Key Of E, therefore, anytime you play an F, C, G, or D, those notes have to be played one semi-tone higher.

There’s nothing overly sophisticated about a Key Signature. Essentially, it’s just a way of communicating the range in which the pitch of the song lies.

In other words, you know how high the song is on your guitar fretboard, or you know how high it is up on the piano keyboard.

What Is The Purpose Of A Key Signature

The purpose of a key signature isn’t to confuse up-and-coming musicians, although, I know it can feel that way.

The purpose of the key signature is, essentially, to minimize the number of sharps (#) and flats (b) written in a piece of music. If there were no key signatures, a composer would have to write a sharp and flat on many of the notes, which would be pretty time-consuming.

Conclusion

This is just a very brief introduction to key signatures in music theory. If you want to learn more basic theory, I recommend heading over to musictheory.net, as well as picking up a copy of Mark Sarnecki’s book, The Complete Elementary Rudiments, which you can read about in my post of all my most recommended products. I believe it’s the last entry in the list.

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Any suggestions for an app that can transpose audio clips. Blocs wave does it well (you can change scale) but are there any other apps that does it with high quality?
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  • Most DAWs can do it, and there's also AudioStretch. There's also a free Lite version you can try.

  • Beatmaker 3 has quality real time time-stretching and pitch-shifting, which means that you can change the pitch without effecting the sample length or keep the pitch and stretch time and do it in real time, pitching the sample from keyboard and sequencing the midi. Often sample pitching is just speeding up or slowing down the sample.

  • Any video tutorials on this bro?

    @ToMess said:
    Beatmaker 3 has quality real time time-stretching and pitch-shifting, which means that you can change the pitch without effecting the sample length or keep the pitch and stretch time and do it in real time, pitching the sample from keyboard and sequencing the midi. Often sample pitching is just speeding up or slowing down the sample.

  • @ToMess I have bm3, just didn’t know it could do this. Thanks!

  • edited January 2018

    If you're referring to adjusting the pitch and maintaining the tempo Cubasis does it as well, possibly better quality and certainly easier to use than BM3. You have to remember that while it's possible to greatly modify a tempo of an audio track there are limits to how much you can change the pitch without a noticeable degradation in sound quality. Between -3 +4 in my experience is as far as you can push it.

  • BM3, Cubasis, and Auria all use zplane’s élastique pitchshifting algorithms, so pick your poison.

  • edited January 2018

    @MusicMan4Christ said:
    Any video tutorials on this bro?

    @ToMess said:
    Beatmaker 3 has quality real time time-stretching and pitch-shifting, which means that you can change the pitch without effecting the sample length or keep the pitch and stretch time and do it in real time, pitching the sample from keyboard and sequencing the midi. Often sample pitching is just speeding up or slowing down the sample.

    Tap live stretch on in sampler view and play keys to pitch it up/down. I like to trigger longer loops by putting a note in where i want to trigger the loop. Instead of putting middle C, put other notes to trigger it lower or higher. If you just want to trigger it from one pitch(pitched up/down) you could also just tune the sample in sampler view and trigger middle C.

  • @LucidMusicInc yes I guess pitch shifting is what I meant. I always add vocals to my songs and so I usually have to transpose so the song fits my voice and it’s typically +- 3 semitones. Thanks.

  • Because AudioShare still cannot do that, I recently compared various apps that do time stretching and pitch shifting, and it came as a little surprise that 'Amazing Slow Downer' seemed to be the most flexible, or in other words, delivered the best quality overall. You have to try different quality settings for different audio material, but the choice of algorithms is its strength.

  • Caustic also has this feature, albeit you're restricted to audio clips of about 30 seconds.

  • edited January 2018

    Blocs Wave you already use is perhaps the easiest way to do things, this is what I use for that kind of stuff, quality is nice enough IMO.

  • then there is Looptunes (shameless self promotion). Not sure how it compares with the others in time stretching quality.

  • @sonicreef what a sweet little app. I played with it for 30 minutes and it was great fun. I have a feature request, it would be nice if you could trigger start and stop a row in a session. Rows can be cued so a row can start when another row stops. And offcourse make that possible to trigger from a midi controller. Thanks

  • edited January 2018

    @sonicreef said:
    then there is Looptunes (shameless self promotion). Not sure how it compares with the others in time stretching quality.

    Hey, looks interesting. Lovely UI with nice large buttons
    Some questions about the HD/DJ versions:

    • What exactly does the DJ version add? Being able to play iTunes songs? More?
    • Will it also sync to external stable MIDI clock from hardware boxes and DJ equipment like e.g. LP-5 does?
    • I've seen the pitch control in the video, but how are tempo changes handled? By Time-stretching the audio?
    • Can the stretching algorithm be chosen to best match the audio material (percussive/pads/beat-aware etc)?

  • @sonicreef Files dragndrop will set a milestone IMHO. Are you considering implement it?
    Also keyboard pitching in your app was the first idea which come to my mind

    Back on OT ReSlice has a great Pitchshifting/timestretching algorythm.
    Also other dj apps like djay or djdj (with AudioBus IAA support) could be used as key shifters..

  • @Dubbylabby said:
    @sonicreef Files dragndrop will set a milestone IMHO. Are you considering implement it?
    Also keyboard pitching in your app was the first idea which come to my mind

    Back on OT ReSlice has a great Pitchshifting/timestretching algorythm.
    Also other dj apps like djay or djdj (with AudioBus IAA support) could be used as key shifters..

    Have you watched the vid on his website including keyboard pitching?

  • edited January 2018

    @rs2000 said:

    @Dubbylabby said:
    @sonicreef Files dragndrop will set a milestone IMHO. Are you considering implement it?
    Also keyboard pitching in your app was the first idea which come to my mind

    Back on OT ReSlice has a great Pitchshifting/timestretching algorythm.
    Also other dj apps like djay or djdj (with AudioBus IAA support) could be used as key shifters..

    Have you watched the vid on his website including keyboard pitching?

    Probably but since I have the app I tested by myself time ago.. why?

  • @Dubbylabby I have not purchased reslice because I have samplr, maybe a I’m wrong but they seem similar

  • @fattigman said:
    @Dubbylabby I have not purchased reslice because I have samplr, maybe a I’m wrong but they seem similar

    >

    Yes, similar in that they address the same area. But if you think of it like having more than one FX app of the same type, let’s say reverb, there will be times when one works better for what you are doing then the other.

  • @fattigman said:
    @Dubbylabby I have not purchased reslice because I have samplr, maybe a I’m wrong but they seem similar

    I have both and the killer feature for me is midi controller support. I prefer to smash pads than glass.

  • @Zen210507 well that make sense I have lots of reverbs so it wouldn’t hurt with another sampler.

    @Dubbylabby Me too, smashing pads way more fun

  • @fattigman said:
    @Zen210507 well that make sense I have lots of reverbs so it wouldn’t hurt with another sampler.

    @Dubbylabby Me too, smashing pads way more fun

    Samplr never supported external control so was deleted from my iDevices long time ago. ReSlice isn’t the most powerfull sampler maybe but it has the best features and one of the faster workflows on the platform. The drawback is loading file bug as AU but if you prepare the samples before fit it inside AU host, solved.

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  • @telecharge said:

    Have you been Retronym'd, Jason?

    hehe

  • @djpuzzle said:

    @telecharge said:

    Have you been Retronym'd, Jason?

    hehe

    Ooh, I missed that. Congrats!

  • @telecharge said:

    @djpuzzle said:

    @telecharge said:

    Have you been Retronym'd, Jason?

    hehe

    Ooh, I missed that. Congrats!

    Thanks!