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Moving Pitch Without Moving Time

Why a naive shift sounds like a cartoon, what granular, PSOLA and phase vocoders each get wrong, and an honest account of when tuning correction saves a record and when it flattens one.

Topic
Mixing
Level
Intermediate
Format
Lesson
Time
14 min

Pitch something up a fourth and it goes up a fourth — and turns into a cartoon character. Slow a drum loop down 20% and it drops in pitch as well as tempo. Neither is what you asked for, and both come from the same underlying fact.

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