Elastic Audio Clip-Based Pitch Shifting

For more information, see the following topics:

Varispeed and Pitch Shifting

Removing Clip Pitch Shifting

(Polyphonic, Rhythmic, and X-Form Only)

In addition to Pro Tools Elastic Audio time compression and expansion capabilities, you can also change the pitch of whole audio clips in semitones and cents in the range of +/– 2 octaves.

Elastic Audio pitch transposition is not supported with the Monophonic algorithm. However, if you switch to the Monophonic plug-in after pitch shifting with another plug-in, the pitch metadata for the clip is maintained.

Elastic Audio pitch transposition cannot be applied to looped clips or clip groups.

To pitch shift a clip:

1 Make sure the clip, or clips, you want to pitch shift are on Elastic Audio-enabled tracks (using the Polyphonic, Rhythmic, or X-Form algorithm).

2 With the Grabber or Selector tool, select the audio clip you want to pitch shift. Only clips that are completely selected will be affected.

3 Open the Elastic Properties window for the clip.

4 Adjust the Pitch Shift settings up (“+”) or down (“–”) by an amount in semitones and cents.

To transpose the pitch of an audio clip in the Transpose window:

1 Make sure the clip, or clips, you want to Transpose are on Elastic Audio-enabled tracks (using the Polyphonic, Rhythmic, or X-Form algorithm).

2 With the Grabber or Selector tool, select the audio clip you want to transpose. Only clips that are completely selected will be affected.

3 Choose Event > Event Operations > Transpose.

4 Do one of the following:

Adjust the Transpose By settings by an amount in semitones and cents.

– or – 

Adjust the Transpose From and To settings by an amount in Semitones and Cents.

The Transpose All Notes To and the Transpose In Key settings can only be applied to MIDI notes. When only audio clips are selected, these options are unavailable.

5 Click Apply.