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Yo, before anyone says anything I have tried the search option and had no joy so here goes...................

Is there a piece of software available that can help determine the key that a particular sample is written in? Kind of like how Recycle can give you the tempo of a drum loop but with the key instead.

Or alternatively a piece of software that lets you change the key to one of your choice?

I know the NNXT in reason 4 does

Hmmm, I dont really fancy shelling out for Reason just for that. Is that he only one out there?

Most DAW packages have analysis tools which can tell you the key of your audio.

Well worth a look is Reaper. It has a pitch detection plugin called ReaTune, which not only can detect the pitch & key of your audio, but also allows you to 'correct' or change the pitch/key of your audio.

Other progs worth checking out are Autotune and Melodyne. Both allow for pitch detection and pitch shifting.

Finally, Audacity and Adobe Audition both have pitch/'key detection facilities as well as pitch shifting and timestretching. The key difference between Autotune and Melodyne vs Audacity and Audition are that the latter process destructively audio offline (non-real time).

Reaper is free to checkout, and ReaTune functions like Autotune/Melodyne in that it performs its wizardry both live and non-destructively!:D

If you're still stuck after that, google freeware pitch detection software/plugins and see what comes up. Similar to ReaTune without the pitch correction facilities is a plugin called GVST GTune.

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futures_untold wrote:And did you know that Haile Selassie I lived in Bath for 5 years?

The_Dza88 wrote:

Why thank you!

You may be interested in this? ---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5vahANzg74

two questions. I often see people asking this same question. Why do so many people want to find the key a vocal was recorded in? is it so they can match other sounds with the same note?

How do you find the key in Reason 4 using the nnxt?!

can't detect it but can alter it

Serox wrote:two questions. I often see people asking this same question. Why do so many people want to find the key a vocal was recorded in? is it so they can match other sounds with the same note?

How do you find the key in Reason 4 using the nnxt?!

Google harmonic mixing or harmonic theory. Tunes that contain harmonically related contents sound better than 'dissonant' ones (unharmincally related).

Reason 4 has an auto map function which maps samples by their root pitch (I think??). (DZA??)

thats one of the only things missing from reason aside from vsti's (we don't want em really)

is a good suite of analsys tools, lord knows i c.b.a wiring up vocoders to meter stuff, let alone any other more powerfull bits

futures_untold wrote:

Serox wrote:two questions. I often see people asking this same question. Why do so many people want to find the key a vocal was recorded in? is it so they can match other sounds with the same note?

How do you find the key in Reason 4 using the nnxt?!

Google harmonic mixing or harmonic theory. Tunes that contain harmonically related contents sound better than 'dissonant' ones (unharmincally related).

Reason 4 has an auto map function which maps samples by their root pitch (I think??). (DZA??)

Just checked wiki and I think my comment above is right then if I understood it

I do not know any keys on a piano without looking tbh. What I try to do when making music is try and keep every noise either on the same key or one in the same scale, is this a good method to stick too?

maybe it can maybe i should eat my hat full of words

set root note from pitch detection
automap zones
chromatically
create velocity crossfades

MickleDan wrote:maybe it can maybe i should eat my hat full of words

set root note from pitch detection
automap zones
chromatically
create velocity crossfades

?

Serox wrote:

MickleDan wrote:maybe it can maybe i should eat my hat full of words

set root note from pitch detection
automap zones
chromatically
create velocity crossfades

?

Read the ferkin' manual

You can batch import samples and I think you can also select multiple samples once they have already been imported, right click and choose some of those options from the menu...

I'm uncertain, cuz Reason 4 is DZAspawn

futures_untold wrote:

Serox wrote:

MickleDan wrote:maybe it can maybe i should eat my hat full of words

set root note from pitch detection
automap zones
chromatically
create velocity crossfades

?

Read the ferkin' manual

You can batch import samples and I think you can also select multiple samples once they have already been imported, right click and choose some of those options from the menu...

I'm uncertain, cuz Reason 4 is DZAspawn

oh he was on about the NNXT. I will have a play around with it but I didn't have a clue what he was talking in reference too.

futures_untold wrote:
You may be interested in this? ---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5vahANzg74

Thanks for the input guys!! This has been a big help.