Best way to Pitch Bend Audio?

[SubbaseDnB]

Whats the best way to pitch bend audio(say Drum Breaks)in Reaper??

can this be done internally in Reaper,or whats a good plugin to do it.

keep in mind i dont talk about pitch bending Midi,But Audio items.

[domzy]

you can do it on a per item basis by using the pitch envelope or you could use ReaPitch as a plugin on the track and set up an envelope or assign it to a controller etc.

[SubbaseDnB]

awesome thanks

[Xenakios]

ReaPitch and take pitch envelopes only do time compensated pitch shifting, though. That is, it will not sound like a classic sampler where both the speed and pitch of the sound are changed at the same time.

[SubbaseDnB]

Originally Posted by Xenakios

ReaPitch and take pitch envelopes only do time compensated pitch shifting, though. That is, it will not sound like a classic sampler where both the speed and pitch of the sound are changed at the same time.

Ahh ok,so i need a vst plugin in order to do this?

[enroe]

Originally Posted by SubbaseDnB

Ahh ok,so i need a vst plugin in order to do this?

No, the easiest way:

Cut your audio-clip into small items, so that they have the
size that you want to pitch.

Then select one of these items, press F2 and you'll see that
you can change the "playrate". This also changes
the pitch - with or without length-correction - just
as you like.

[domzy]

Originally Posted by SubbaseDnB

Ahh ok,so i need a vst plugin in order to do this?

or you could use stretch markers

[SubbaseDnB]

ok will have to experiment for the best way

[serr]

The controls are just a little obscure in Reaper IMHO.

"Classic" veri-speed pitch bend has the tempo slow as the pitch lowers. Just like what the pitch control on an analog deck did.

We now also have the ability to alter only pitch or only tempo digitally.

To toggle between those modes (and this is per audio item):
Untick the box in Item Preferences for 'Preserve pitch when changing tempo' for classic veri-speed mode. Tick the box for separated (this is the default).

You can select all the audio items first and then open item preferences. Make that tick/untick move once. Any new item you import or render comes default ticked for "separated" mode.

The built-in Elastique Pro is truly lossless in veri-speed mode and you can get away with more severe stretches in separated mode than most other algorithms.

[SubbaseDnB]

thanks for the answers,got alot of experimentation to do tommorow.started working on some breakcore,so really need those pitch bends

[SubbaseDnB]

Originally Posted by serr

The controls are just a little obscure in Reaper IMHO.

"Classic" veri-speed pitch bend has the tempo slow as the pitch lowers. Just like what the pitch control on an analog deck did.

We now also have the ability to alter only pitch or only tempo digitally.

To toggle between those modes (and this is per audio item):
Untick the box in Item Preferences for 'Preserve pitch when changing tempo' for classic veri-speed mode. Tick the box for separated (this is the default).

You can select all the audio items first and then open item preferences. Make that tick/untick move once. Any new item you import or render comes default ticked for "separated" mode.

The built-in Elastique Pro is truly lossless in veri-speed mode and you can get away with more severe stretches in separated mode than most other algorithms.

can you explain abit more about this separat mode??where di i find that?
also is it possible to playrate automate only on 1 channel,i dont want the whole track to be playrate automated.

[Sju]

Save yourself a bunch of fiddling and import the audio into a sampler and use regular pitch bend. ReaSamplomatic5000 for example for single samples.

[BenK-msx]

Like sju says for a clean envelope pitch/rate style
Try this that use reasamplomatic.
https://forum.cockos.com/showpost.ph...55&postcount=1

It reads harder to set up than it is, trust me. Works v well.

The native stretch marker with retain pitch method gives you visuals but is very clunky to use except for linear bending.

[serr]

Originally Posted by SubbaseDnB

can you explain abit more about this separat mode??where di i find that?
also is it possible to playrate automate only on 1 channel,i dont want the whole track to be playrate automated.

It's the default. That box for "Preserve pitch when altering rate" is ticked by default. When you want classic veri-speed mode is when you need to do something (untick it that is).

In default separated pitch vs tempo mode, option-dragging an item edge to stretch it alters the tempo but the pitch remains the same. In veri-speed mode, stretching works the pitch along with the rate.