- Changing the pitch of audio is easy using built in effects that come for free in GarageBand. There are plenty of methods to raise of lower pitch.
- Often, when you’ve recorded something that’s out of tune, you’ve just got to record it again. But before you do, try fixing it in GarageBand '09, which comes with a few tools for tweaking pitch.
- Often, when you’ve recorded something that’s out of tune, you’ve just got to record it again. But before you do, try fixing it in GarageBand '09, which comes with a few tools for tweaking pitch.
- Garageband Flex Pitch
- How To Change The Pitch Of A Song In Garageband Plugins
- How To Change The Pitch Of A Song In Garageband Studio
Pitch shift: A pitchshifter function will change the pitch/tuning without changing the tempo. Some multi FX gear got this function. Time strech: This is changing the tempo while the tuning/pitch is locked to the original. 1) To change the tempo in Garageband, click on the “Tempo” number in the top-center of the DAW along where it also lists the bars in each measure, as well as the Key Signature. 2) Then just double-click on the actual number, and type in the desired tempo.
When using Extreme Tuning, set the key of your song in GarageBand before applying the effect for best results. You can then additional effects like echo or reverb.
Set the key and scale of the song
Extreme Tuning uses your song's key and scale settings to apply the effect. If the actual key or scale of your song differs from the key or scale setting, the effect might be less pronounced, or might change the pitch of individual notes in the track in undesirable ways.
GarageBand songs defaults to the key of C.
- On iPhone and iPod Touch, tap Settings in the control bar, and then tap Song. On iPad, iPhone 6 Plus, and iPhone 7 Plus, tap Song Settings in the control bar.
- Tap Key.
- Tap the key for your song.
- Tap the scale for your song (major or minor).
Access the Extreme Tuning setting
Extreme Tuning is optimized for male and female voices, but you can apply it as a creative effect to any mono audio track, like a bass guitar or other live instrument.
To access the Extreme Tuning setting:
- In Tracks view, tap the audio region in an audio track to select it.
- Tap Microphone on the toolbar to open the Audio Recorder settings.
- On iPhone or iPod touch, tap Navigation , tap the current Audio Recorder setting (such as Clean), tap Fun, then tap Extreme Tuning.
On iPad, iPhone 6 Plus, and iPhone 7 Plus, tap Fun, then tap the Extreme Tuning icon. - Adjust Pitch Control and Distortion to fine tune the sound.
Add additional effects
To add additional effects like Reverb or Echo:
- On iPhone and iPod Touch, tap Settings , then tap Track Controls . On iPad, iPhone 6 Plus, and iPhone 7 Plus, tap Track Controls .
- Under Master Effects, adjust the Echo and Reverb sliders, or tap Master Effects to change the Echo and Reverb presets.
How to change pitch in GarageBand
Step 1: Open new audio, or select the track that you want to alter from the workspace. Step 2: At the top right corner of your screen, you will see a box of four icons; access the toolbar by clicking on the third icon from this box. You will now see a toolbox open up in the lower half of your screen. Step 3: Open the stompbox by clicking on the icon at the top right corner of your toolbox. Step 4: The stompbox that opens up gives a very retro feel, snatches the classic heart in a beat, which is made up a lot of old retro-looking analogue boxes. Click on the preset options and then select ‘Pitch’. Choose how you want to alter the pitch, the presets or tune you want to put on it. For eg: octave up the mix or the octave only or octave up options.
Step 5: When you select a pitch shift, a new control box will open up. On the workspace where your track is, if you play the audio, you’ll hear the original version. Now if you drag it down to the altered track, you’ll then hear the audio with the pitch alteration. Wasn’t that easy? Step 6: You can adjust your pitch alteration with the ‘mix’ option in the control box. When you turn up the mix it goes only to the pitch-shifted vocal, as you lower it down, it goes back to the original vocal. My favourite feature about GarageBand is hands down the fact that in the pitch moderation process it will never ruin your audio experience. PRO TIP: You can also turn the effect on/off by using the little grey button on the control box.How to perform Pitch correction in GarageBand
Step 1: Click on the fourth icon from the box at the top left of the screen. You’ll find the pitch correction option in the edit window of audio tracks. Step 2:Garageband Flex Pitch
Turn on ‘Limit to key’ by clicking on the box. Step 3: Now you can alter the pitch correction on the sliding toolbar. If you turn it all the way up to 100, it will resemble auto-tune. The effect will be quite visible once you try it, adjust it according to you. Step 4: A slight drawback is that the effect applies to the entire audio, if you follow STEP 3, to apply it only to certain regions of the audio, create a duplicate of the audio by going to the tracks setting and clicking on ‘New track with duplicate settings’. Please check out this YouTube video for more clarification: Step 5: Now turn off pitch correction for this duplicate track by sliding the slide to 0.How To Change The Pitch Of A Song In Garageband Plugins
Step 6: Copy your audio by drag and drop, and depending on the parts where you do and don’t want autotune, create splits in the track (short cut: command – T)How To Change The Pitch Of A Song In Garageband Studio
Step 7: Now on the track where pitch correction is on, delete the parts where you don’t want pitch correction, and on the second track where pitch correction is off, delete the parts where you do want pitch correction.