I recorded songs decades ago on a reel to reel tape recorder, and then a couple of years later, I digitized on another when the original no longer worked. Now I realize, in some cases after a lot of work marking measures and more. that they are somewhat faster. so in the present song, I know the 1st phrase started with E and now it is f#.
Time stretch doesn’t change the pitch. How would I slow the song to the original tempo to drop it a half step, like the original pitch and tempo?
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To me it sounds like you’ve simply loaded them into your project at the wrong sample rate e.g. you recorded/digitized them @ 44.1kHz and are now playing them back @ 48kHz. That would be the first thing I’d check.
If that’s the case you can easily re-import and have them convert to the correct sample rate. There’s also a variety of other tools in Cubase you can use to solve this if that’s not what has happened.
You can use Direct Offline Processing.
Select the event or clip, open DOP and use the process “Pitch Shift”.
There make sure to use ‘transpose’ (not ‘envelope’). Also untick “Time Correction” in the lower right corner.
Now any pitch shift will be done like speeding up or slowing down a tape machine.
Pitch Shift! Excellent. so simple. If only I’d realized before I marked all the measures with many time signature changes and tempo changes, all off now. So if I used Spectralayers and unmixed songs, and after editing, moved to tracks, must all be done, or will just doing the original affect them likewise. This is ARA mode.
I did this with an earlier version before using spectorlayers and the process worked. but now when I try the same procedure with the version with ARA Spectarlayer layers and tracks, to the original source track, nothing happens. Is spectralayers preventing it from happening?
Was it a sample rate issue or something else?