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Playing music pitched down (pg. 2)
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| wotyzoid |
| I'll play psy at 80 BPM, watch me. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| Someone I know did a mix of psy time-stretched down to about 105bpm. I tried listening to it, because I do like those psy-dub tracks at that speed, but the whole thing just sounded horribly choppy from all the artefacts. |
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| Tangil |
| The CDJ time stretching sound was no good. Haven't tried with Traktor but overall I prefer just to go with the original key setting. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| I finally bought a new laptop just before Christmas and got hold of Traktor. Locking the key does open up a massive amount of possibilities with mixing, because you can play tracks together that are 10bpm apart originally. The array of possible tunes to play next multiplies enormously. |
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| Lews |
| Do any of the mixing programs out there tell you what key a track has changed to after you have pitched it (without key-lock on) ? I think that's often a big problem with my own mixing, is being unable to tell via my own ears what key a track has changed to after I've pitched it one way or the other. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
Do any of the mixing programs out there tell you what key a track has changed to after you have pitched it (without key-lock on) ? I think that's often a big problem with my own mixing, is being unable to tell via my own ears what key a track has changed to after I've pitched it one way or the other. |
A track will go up or down by a semi-tone when you pitch it approximately 5% in either direction. So if you take a track in E minor and pitch it up by 5% it will go up to F minor. Think of an octave on a keyboard, with each key being a 5% change:
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| Lews |
| That is excellent to know; I should have asked you earlier :o |
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| Tangil |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I finally bought a new laptop just before Christmas and got hold of Traktor. Locking the key does open up a massive amount of possibilities with mixing, because you can play tracks together that are 10bpm apart originally. The array of possible tunes to play next multiplies enormously. |
Interesting. Was your Repose set mixed on Traktor? |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| Yeah it was. In that set, Compass Error is at something like -6, but the key is locked. When I listen back, I can't even tell it's been slowed down, really. It's a very slow, spacious track to begin with. Without the pitch dropping, you can barely hear the difference. |
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| Tangil |
| Yeah it sounds pretty good. To me it sounds slower but not unpleasant, which the pitch lock obviously helps with. Had it been a track I'd never heard before it wouldn't have been noticeable at all. |
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| wotyzoid |
| Does anyone else grab all their 45rpm records and play them at 33? |
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