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Topic: PITCH and TEMPO are 2 different things

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1. #1 Pitch is NOT the speed of a song. This program appears to have been written from the days of windows 3.1 It's a very nice program and has been out here for very long time looks like to me but I guess this goes to show you that D.J.'s lack severely musical talent and must have tin ears if all they here when you turn the pitch control faster is the TEMPO speeding up. Tempo is measured by a metronome. Pitch is compared to a tuning fork. The note A above middle C on the piano is supposed to vibrate 442 times per second. If it vibrates faster it is said to be "sharp" . if it vibrates slower it is said to be "flat" THIS IS THE DEFINITION OF PITCH. It has nothing to do with the tempo the drummer is playing. Such as quarternote = 120 beats per minute That's called tempo - not pitch In laymans terms THAT is the speed of the song; "TEMPO". That is what your software controls and not the pitch. I was looking for an mp3 pitch controler. A tempo modifier is handy and useful too but I have tracks that are out of tune and I DON'T want to change the tempo. How could people write such a sophisticated and actually good looking and very functional piece of software specifically for musical purposes used in remastering - and not know the correct definition of the word pitch as pertaining to musical notes?
 
Posted Mon 14 May 07 @ 3:27 pm
Are you feeling ok now you,ve got that off your chest, lol
 
why not try virtual dj
www.virtualdj.com
instead atomix mp3 is several years old and came before it.
 
I think you will find the the software is using terms (Pitch) that were used on Vinyl turntables and this term has just stuck over the years.

If you speed up the tempo on a music track (using the pitch control) you will find that anything +/- 5 will no doubt also change the pitch of the track as it will squeeze the 442 vibrations into .95 of a seconds.

Correct me if I am wrong but thats how I see it.
 
sod it, just hit sync if it will go!

change your 1st 2 letters round on ur name thats what u need! lol

Made me laugh........theres always one!
 
Well I don't care if they're more concerned about b with the money from their j but try to know the difference between pitch and tempo. Maybe if people make a million bucks in anyhing related to music - even of they do it pressing the play button on an mp3 player - they should maybe at least know where middle C is on the piano. But maybe tuning forks as opposed to metronomes is asking a bit much. In the mean time It's amazing how many tracks are remastered from vinyl records into digital files and they miss the pitch by a mile. People who play musical instruments notice these things. That's why they might go looking for a simple media player that can correct the pitch to normal. So they download andinstall some application and grab a bar or a knob that says fix pitch and the track speeds up or slows down instead. So then they bury their head in their hands and shake their head back and forth and.. well... nevermind.
 
jb5music wrote :
People who play musical instruments notice these things. That's why they might go looking for a simple media player that can correct the pitch to normal. So they download andinstall some application and grab a bar or a knob that says fix pitch and the track speeds up or slows down instead. So then they bury their head in their hands and shake their head back and forth and.. well... nevermind.


The term "pitch control" is used since the first phonographs
that had a controllable speed of the platter, that directly
affects the pitch of the track, which is more relevant data
than the speed itself or different time duration.
(It applies the same for tape recorders.)

For the same reason it is used in all modern DJ applications
(AtomixMP3, VirtualDj and other apps).

So before a "musician" searches for a software that would
edit the recording, it should educate himself enough to
know the difference between DJ and editing / music production
software and maybe understand terms like "pitch shifting",
"time stretching", etc.
 
In Ableton Live, pitch is controlled separately from tempo.
 
Thanks for posting that vital and relevant information on a thread from 2007.

In VirtualDJ you can also control pitch seperately from tempo.

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