How to change pitch of vocal samples without changing tempo?

[shakas]

1st off, I'm using Reason 4.0
I want to have complete control over the pitch and tempo of my samples.
for example: if i download an acapella...and then chop out one lyric like: "i see that you're back again" for example.
and then maybe i chop it even further so each work is a seperate sample: "i-see-that-you're-back-again"
...i want to be able to make it work within whatever tempo my song is at...even if the sample was recorded in another tempo. and more importantly...i want to change the melody by changing the pitch of certain words but not have them change tempo (or the length of time it originally took to say the word). i dont want high pitch words to be super fast and low pitch words tooo beee slooowww)
also wondering if you can change the pitch of one word while its being triggered. like bending from one note to another in the second half of the word. (and i dont mean just recording an automation of turning the pitch knob randomly...unless i can choose the exact note i want it to hit and when i want it to change during the word.

so basically i want to make my vocal samples sing for me. my melodies...my arrangement...my phrasing..my tempos...but all lifted from other songs acapellas.

an example of this might be what Burial does with the Ray J sample in 'Archangel'.
and what this burial sound-alike did with the same ray j song here:


thanks

[press]

in reason 4 you will need to use recycle to chop it into slices then use the rex player to drop the slices in in time. you could then open an nnxt open the rx2 file in the top patch section of the nnxt and move the rex players midi info into the nnxt lane in the sequencer....great technique for drum loops aswell.

[-[2]DAY_-]

^ nailed it. failing that, if you don't have recycle, you'll need to use any available audio editor to chop the shit out of it into each syllable, then load each sample to its own zone in the nn-xt. from there, you can pitch shift each syllable, it will still affect the timing of each syllable but you can at least sequence the entire phrase in time with MIDI

[catmartin]

Melodyne is perfect for this. Change pitch, tempo, intonation, time stretch phrases, notes.