Orinj Pitch shift

Orinj version 8.0.0

The Orinj Pitch Shift changes the pitch of the sound.

An example of the Orinj Pitch Shift

The following example contains two repetitions of a guitar riff. The first repetition is as recorded, without the pitch shift. The second one shifts the riff one semitone up.

Click to play this example with a pitch shift.

Using the Orinj Pitch Shift

The Orinj Pitch Shift can be added to tracks, auxiliary channels, and the master channel in the multitrack session view and to waves in the single wave view.

• To add the effect to a track or an auxiliary channel in the session, first click on the track or auxiliary channel to select it. Click on Effect, Other, and then on Orinj Pitch Shift in the menu.
• To add the effect to the master channel in the session, click on Track and then on Master Channel in the menu. In the master channel dialog, click on the Add button.
• To add the effect to a wave in the single wave view, click on Effect, Other, and then on Orinj Pitch Shift in the menu.

You will see the following dialog.

When this dialog becomes visible, the Orinj Pitch Shift effect has been added. Adjust the parameters of the pitch shift in the dialog above and click Close. The parameters are described below.

Orinj Pitch Shift parameters

See Orinj Effects for an explanation of the Title, Track, Presets, and Bypass controls. The remaining Orinj Pitch Shift controls are described below:

• Pitch: Use this drop-down box to set the change in the pitch. The change is measured in semitones and can be up to 12 semitones down (one octave down) and 12 semitones up (one octave up). A value of zero indicates no pitch shift or a pitch shift that is very small and specified with the slider below. Using this drop-down box will also change the pitch slider.
• Pitch: Use this slider to set the change in the pitch. The change is measured in percentages and can be between 50% (one octave down) and 200% (one octave up). Using this slider, if the change is large enough, will also change the pitch drop-down box described above.
• Frequencies: Use this drop-down box to set the number of frequencies that this effect should analyze and change. If this drop-down box is set to 512, for example, then the pitch shift analyzes the sound for the presence of 512 evenly spread frequencies in the interval between 20 Hz and 20 kHz. Usually, this pitch effect is more precise with more frequencies, but also slower. That said, the pitch shift may sometimes sound better with fewer frequencies, depending on the sound.
• Segment: Use these controls – the box and the slider – to choose the length of the segment of pitch analysis. The pitch shift effect analyzes the sound in short chunks. It takes a short segment, computes the presence of various frequencies in it, adjusts those frequencies, and moves to the next segment. This is necessary, as frequencies in the recorded sound change over time. The length of the segment of pitch analysis is measured in milliseconds and can be between 10 ms and 110 ms. The shorter the segments, the more precise, but slower the pitch shift.
• Overlap: Use these controls – the box and the slider – to choose the amount of overlap between the segments of pitch analysis. This overlap is measured in percentages and can be between 75% and 95%. The segments of pitch analysis must overlap to permit gradual adjustments in the pitched sound over time. The larger the overlap, the more precise but slower the pitch shift.
• Max: Use these controls – the box and the slider – to choose the maximum frequency that would be pitch shifted. In some cases, it may be useful to leave harmonics unchanged. The maximum frequency is measured in Hz and can be between 20 Hz and 20 kHz.

See Orinj Effects for additional notes on: where Orinj effects can be used, using boxes and sliders that impact the same parameter (such as the box and slider for the overlap), applying effects to mono and stereo waves, and using effects during playback. See Orinj Working with effects for additional information on creating, modifying, moving, and removing effects.

Computational intensity of the Orinj Pitch Shift

There are a lot of computations that must be performed by the effect, which may make this effect slow. If the effect computations are too slow and interrupt playback, use the premixing controls of Orinj to apply the effect to tracks before playback (see Orinj Working with session tracks).