Tips on how to change the key of an Audio file

Aequitas123 · Post by **Aequitas123** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:11 am

I have an old guitar track from a recording done with my old band. I'm doing some remixing and want to sample this guitar track. The only problem is that the sample is in C#Maj and I need it in Emin.

Any tips on how to go about changing this?

Things i've tried unsuccessfully:

- Using the resonator
- Vocoding the track
- Adjusting the Transposition

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

glasvegas · Post by **glasvegas** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:18 am

wait for this to come out http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=dna
Or you could try transposing the sample to the relative major of Em (G major in this case), may or may not work depending on the sample and/or the track.

glasvegas · Post by **glasvegas** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:18 am

also, if the guitar line is only single notes at a time melodyne would work

Aequitas123 · Post by **Aequitas123** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:28 am

melodyne?

Aequitas123 · Post by **Aequitas123** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:41 am

Any other options?

Lo-Fi Massahkah · Post by **Lo-Fi Massahkah** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 6:25 am

It would be so much simpler just to re-record it. Not only changing key but also scale.

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Kozak · Post by **Kozak** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:29 am

scale == key in this example right?

Lo-Fi Massahkah · Post by **Lo-Fi Massahkah** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:12 am

Well, the key should go from C# to E. That's 4 semitones. You're also changing from major to minor. Which means you can't just transpose. You need to edit individual notes.

Re-record.

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forge · Post by **forge** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:23 am

Lo-Fi Massahkah wrote:Well, the key should go from C# to E. That's 4 semitones. You're also changing from major to minor. Which means you can't just transpose. You need to edit individual notes.

Re-record.

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+1

Aequitas123 · Post by **Aequitas123** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 4:55 pm

Well i figured rerecording would be the best way to go about this.

THanks