Wavelab 7: pitch correction - how it works
Wavelab lets you pitch correct entire songs or parts of audio files. We'll tell you how to do it.
Pitch correction in Wavelab
A simple pitch correction can be done in just a few steps in Wavelab. You will find special settings in the image gallery. The simple pitch shifting of a marked area of an audio file is done in four small steps:
- Press the [P] key to access the Pitch Correction menu and click "Current Pitch of Audio Selection" to find out the pitch of the highlighted area.
- In the Change Value area, specify the number of semitones and cents (hundredths of a semitone) by which you want to increase or decrease the selection.
- In the "Procedure" area, select the quality of the correction and whether you place more value on temporality or frequency accuracy.
- With a click on "Apply" the pitch correction for the marked area is carried out. You can save the change or previous rendering.
Further practical tips will tell you how to normalize levels, create audio montages and save them as MP3s in Wavelab.
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In the waveform view, highlight the area of the audio file whose pitch you want to correct. Caution, the marked area must be at least 100ms.
Press the [P] key or navigate via »Audio editing«, »Pitch correction
«To the pitch correction menu.
Click "Current Pitch of Audio Selection" to find out the current average pitch of your selection and the fundamental frequency.
This is then displayed (see green marking). Now enter a change value. Values below 12 cents are usually not audible.
In the "Procedure" area, you can choose between two extremes in five stages: "Time positioning ++" receives transient patterns such as the transient response of musical instruments better. However, the good timing is at the expense of frequency accuracy. "Frequency positioning ++", on the other hand, corrects the frequency more precisely, but blurs temporal patterns.
You can also adjust the quality of the pitch correction in the "Procedure" area. With the computing power of today's computers, the "highest quality (slow)" is always recommended, except for the correction of sections lasting several minutes.
With a click on "Apply" the pitch is converted and is immediately audible.
