Tape Recorder-style Pitch Shift / Transcription
I have been given hundreds of Voice Memo recordings of piano to transcribe. The piano, being old, has been deliberately tuned a quarter-tone flat. To transcribe the recordings, the first step is to shift the pitch back up. The tempo is irrelevant. I did try the pitch-shift plug-in, but it created distracting artefacts which I don't see are necessary, given my simple requirements.
Having been away from Logic for a few years, there have been some changes — in particular, Flex. As far as I can make out, though, Flex is intended for messing with tempo, or for adjusting the pitch of individual notes. What I think I need is something extremely basic: adjusting the speed of the recordings so that the pitch goes up correspondingly, just as you would get with a tape recorder or turntable speed control. I'm sure this task must be easy to accomplish (no doubt in Flex), but I can't seem to wade through all the stuff about autotuning duff singers to get to it…
So, firstly: how do you pitch-shift a recording in the old-fashioned way, without worrying about tempo or duration? All I'm interested in is pitch. I don't care about tempo or duration.
That's my question; but additionally, if you were presented with the task of transcribing lots of rather poor-quality piano recordings, how would you go about it? I suspect there are new features in Logic which could help, & it would be a shame if I overlooked them through unfamiliarity.
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), Logic Pro X 10.1.1, Occam's Razor