linde
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Hello, I'm new here anyway 
I thought about sampling chords synth/piano for a song, but I don't know what happens if I change the pitch of the sample, so I'm asking you.
Will it sound as if I was really transposing the chord on a real piano, or will the pitches of the notes other than the basenote be incorrect?
I hope you understand what I mean, and I thank you for your time. |
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cartlemmy
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I'm not quite following you, but if you simply pitch shift a note it will sound unatural. The timbre of the sample will change, and the further from the orignal pitch the more odd it will sound. Alot of songs from the 80's had samples that sounded like this. Fortunatley modern samplers alow for multiple samples of one instrument.
-Josh (CartLemmy)
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linde
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| Yes, I know the timbre will sound different and unnatural etc (for me it's a desired artifact along with low bit depth ), but imagine I sampled a C major chord with three sine waves (so that the timbre wouldn't change with the pitch) and then changed the pitch of it so that it resembled an F# major chord. Would it sound like F# major, or would the notes in the chord be "off"? |
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linde
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| Nevermind, I just took the time to try it out, and it sounded just fine. Thanks for your help anyway! |
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PPH
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linde wrote on 17 Jul. (10:10) :
Nevermind, I just took the time to try it out, and it sounded just fine. Thanks for your help anyway! |
Did you pitch shift it one octave or a shorter interval? If you pitch shift a chord, say, a third, the resulting chord may not be in the same scale, and you might not be able to use it in the same key you used it before.
Example:
Suppose the chord is C E G, and the piece where you took it from is in C major. If you shift it one tone upwards, you get DF#A, which is not in the C key.
But if you used it in a suitable context, then that's not a problem. About the timbre distortion, depending on the algorithm you use, it won't be significant if the interval of the shift is sufficiently small.
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cartlemmy
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Ah! I get what you are saying now! Yup that works because we use an even tempered scale where each half step is exactly 2^(1/12) hz apart from the last one.
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cartlemmy
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Reply was moderated by Analysis on 17. Jul 2005 (18:31)
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