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I am trying to go harmonic in the mix, and at the moment I have a list of tunes and the keys they are in, I understand transpose will change the pitch in semitones, Is there a simple explanation to how I can go about understanding changing pitch ? for instanace if the song I am playing is in E-Major, and want the song to change it to D-flat how many semitones would I move the transpose ? all being easy, if it sgoing to be to hard please dont tax your brain on my account, lol pepy

I think its actually a bit more complicated than just changing the pitch. For example E-major is going to contain a different set of note intervals than D-flat... so just simply changing the pitch will not change the key signature. I could have my head up my arse but I think its impossible by simply pitching... You could for example pitch a track from E-major to F-major by simply pitching it up 2 semitones... I think... don't quote me though, I'm not a music theory expert by any means.

Correction: 1 semitone from E to F

e major implies a scale
d flat does not, it's just a note.

the notes are 3 semitones away

i liked pitched snare samples i am thinking they are cool. as well.

You can change the key of a musical part within the type of scale (or "mode") just by pitching. For example, if your part is in E maj you can change it to a Db maj by pitching down one semitone. Or E min to C min by pitching down 4 semitones or up 8 semitones. This is because th spacing between the notes (or "intervals") are the same in all scales of the same type.

What you can't do is change from a major scale to a minor scale, or vice versa (or to a different musical mode altogether) because the intervals are different. This means that some notes would have to be pitched up/down by different amounts to others. With pitching you can only change all notes by the same amount.

Note to music theory experts: I apologise for any errors in my use of terminology with regards to scales modes and intervals.

Check out the Rapid Evolution site for some great information on harmonic mixing. Well worth reading!

http://www.mixshare.com/wiki/doku.php?i ... nic_mixing

e major down to d flat major = 3 semitones .In my opinion the sound quality is really comprimised if tuning audio .
And doing this isnt doing anything modal as mentioned above . Mode's are concerned with the starting point in a scale and transposing to a different key doesnt change a mode as all intervals are staying the same

This is a pretty cool site for music theory, ear training and stuff http://www.musictheory.net/

I'd say if you can train your ears to know whats right then you can take some of the mechanics and technical stuff out of it and just feel it.

I agree with cheameup on this... I think pitching can sound worse than just mixing it through... IMO

Oh yeah, what a dumbass! I was thinking of Eb maj!
However, the link vinkalmann has posted seems to say it all with respect to the context in which we're discussing scales and keys here

Sorry!!