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Changing BPM and its corresponding pitch?
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| supermaneric |
| A question i want to ask is, when we sync songs or change its tempo, the pitch of such song will also change. What i want to know is by how much? so like a change in 2bpm will correspond to how much pitch change or more precisely if it will just be an small percentage key change that will not relate to a particular key or it will change from say Am to A#m . |
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| Stu Cox |
A change of about 5.9% is about 1 semitone (Am -> A#m).
These multiply together rather than add though... a change of +5.9% is actually a multiplication of 105.9%, so you hit the 2nd semitone (Bm) at 105.9% x 105.9% = 112.14% (i.e. around +12.1%)
6% per semitone is an accurate enough approximation :) |
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| supermaneric |
| okayy thanks cause i was thinking that if a slight change in bpm correspond to a a rise or lowering of pitch then it opens up alot of live mashups but 5.9% is quite a bit so :( |
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| Dykes_on_Jay |
| you didn't google such a simple answer first so your :( means nothing. |
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| supermaneric |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dykes_on_Jay
you didn't google such a simple answer first so your :( means nothing. |
i did... you can't exactly trust everything yahoo answers say... so whats your point? |
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| Stu Cox |
| quote: | Originally posted by supermaneric
okayy thanks cause i was thinking that if a slight change in bpm correspond to a a rise or lowering of pitch then it opens up alot of live mashups but 5.9% is quite a bit so :( |
On the flip side, you get a bit of tolerance:
Take two tracks in the same key which are 2 BPM apart, once you've beat matched them they'll probably still sound in key (= mashup time)...
If, hypothetically, +2% corresponded to 1 semitone, two tracks in the same key even 1 BPM apart would probably clash once you've beatmatched them. |
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| Trance Android |
| Listen to Stu, the man knows his onions :) Regards the 6%, I like to use 3% & my reasoning for this is that anything greater than 3% (ie the mid way point) is closer to the next semitone up or down than it is to the original |
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