Pitch

[Christopher Gilland]

Guys,

Usually, I'm pretty darn good at looking at a plugin, and figuring
things out, but this is really stumping me, as nothing I do seems to be
working. I'm undoubtedly therefore using the wrong plug for this job, or
am just not doing something right.

I'm looking at the native stock plugin under the pitch sub menu on an
insert. Basically, here's the deal.

I have an mp3 of a karaoke track. Naturally played, the recording is in
the key of D. No, I don't have stems, nor individual tracks of each
instrument. This was a professionally prerecorded track on a Sound
choice karaoke CD I bought about 10 years ago.

Anyway, all I'm trying to do is, I want to preserve the tempo as best as
I can, but I want to try pitching it up from D, to F. So I'm thinking 3
simitones? Rather a step and a half.

I know something about formance, but I never totally got what that meant
aside enabling it in order to keep the tempo the same during the pitch
shift.

Thing is, I don't have any money right now to spend on a higher quality
pitch plug, I gotta for now work with stock.

Can someone give me step by step directions on what plug to use, and
what setting to change to try this? I know it may not sound the most
ideal, but at least something that would get me at least started, that
at least would get it to F. I get there may be some artifacts, but I'd
like to at least try, if someone could tell me specifically what to do.

Normally, I'd not ask for you all to teach me a plugin. But honestly,
with this, I'm really stumped. Nothing I do seems to be altering the
pitch in any way.

Chris.