Change Music Pitch

borgward · 09-20-2023, 09:33 PM

What to install to change the pitch and/or tempo of music. I used to have a program installed to do that. I don't want something complex for recording studio use. People send me a song to learn but want to do it in another Key.

Software Manager offers Soundstretch but looks like it only works for .wav.

fedoralinuxjunkie · 09-20-2023, 11:41 PM

Hey there,

I can think of 2 programs that would do the job. If you want a GUI interface: Audacity. If you want a CLI program: sox. Both can do exactly what you're looking for, used them both many times myself

Edit: Quick note that Audacity is not available by default in Linux Mint, but can be installed using the Linux Mint Community Portal link found here. You can also download an AppImage from Audacity's site that doesn't require any installation at all

teckk · 09-21-2023, 06:11 PM

Couple of examples:

Change pitch

Code:

rubberband -p 8 input.wav output.wav

Keep pitch change tempo

Code:

mplayer file.mp3 -af scaletempo -speed 1.5
sox file.mp3 newfile.mp3 tempo 1.5

Keep tempo change pitch

Code:

mplayer file.mp3 -af scaletempo=scale=1.0:speed=pitch
sox input.wav out.wav pitch 200

Change tempo, pitch, volume, equalize

Code:

sox in.wav out.wav speed .8 pitch 300 bass 5 treble 5 norm