Pitch Shifting Dialog - WaveLab Elements - 12.0

• To open the Pitch Shifting dialog, select the Process tab in the Audio Editor, and click Pitch Shifting in the Time & Pitch section.

Amount of Shift

Semitones

Allows you to specify the pitch change in semitones.

Cents

Allows you to specify the pitch change in cents.

Find Current Pitch of Audio Selection

Analyzes the pitch of the selected audio and displays it below this button.

According to the current pitch, compute the required shift to match the key hereafter

Click to adjust Amount of Shift parameters automatically, based on the detected pitch and the pitch specified in the value field below this button.

Pitch field

Specifies the resulting pitch.

Method

Length Preservation

Specifies how the length of the selection is affected by the operation:

• A setting of 100 % means that the length of the audio remains unchanged.

• A setting of 0 % means that the program behaves like a tape recorder, when the speed of its tape is changed. For example, if you raise the pitch by one octave, the audio is half as long.

For high transposition values, the lower this setting, the better the quality of the effect.

Accuracy pop-up menu

Allows you to specify whether to favor duration accuracy or pitch accuracy for pitch shifting.

• If Favor Duration Accuracy is selected and the Length Preservation is set to 100 %, the length of the resulting audio corresponds to the length of the source audio.

• If Favor Pitch Accuracy is selected, the length of the audio after pitch shifting can differ from the length of the original audio.

Correct Formants

Enhances the quality and produces a more realistic result when you change the pitch of vocal material. When processing non-vocal material, we recommend deactivating this option, as it uses a slightly slower processing algorithm.

Note

This algorithm can cause a noticeable increase in the signal level.