How to Change Tempo Of Itunes Song?

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How to Change Tempo Of Itunes Song?

When I import a song from Itunes, I want to be able the speed up the tempo and change the pitch of the voices. I can not seem to find a way to do that. I I have tried to use the tempo change bar, but that does not seem to work on already existing songs from itunes, only software instruments. Can anybody help me?

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Jun 10, 2007 8:04 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 10, 2007 9:05 AM in response to leahthequeen

- Import the song, it will be an orange region.
- Turn the region into a purple one, by pressing ctrl-option-G and clicking anywhere in the timeline.
- Double-click that region to open the editor window and check the box "follow tempo and pitch".

Now this region will speed up and slow down when you move the tempo slider.

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Answer 2

Jun 10, 2007 12:06 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

I got to the making the song purple, but the follow tempo button is greyed out...?

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Answer 3

Jun 10, 2007 12:34 PM in response to swinginchandra

Have you really selected the region?

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Answer 4

leahthequeen Author

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Jun 15, 2007 1:15 PM in response to leahthequeen

Thanks. My only problem is that after I have changed the tempo and closed down GB, when I open the song back up it will not play? How do I get it to play?

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Answer 5

Sep 7, 2007 8:03 PM in response to leahthequeen

I need to slow down speech samples to half speed, or even slower. Using GarageBand 3, I clicked on "Follow Tempo & Pitch," then clicked on the tempo indicator and adjusted the slider. The speech sample imported at 95 bpm. 70 bpm sounds choppy and echoing. 47 bpm is awful. The speech sample came from a CD, saved using Apple's Lossless Encoder at 239 kbps. Is there something wrong with GarageBand? Should I buy a "pro" sound application? Or can I fix GarageBand?

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Answer 6

Sep 7, 2007 8:30 PM in response to Thomas Kehoe

Hi, Thomas,

What you need is an Audio Editor.
Check out Audacity, which is free, and can vary both pitch and tempo, either independently or together.

WH

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Answer 7

Sep 13, 2007 3:05 AM in response to Windham Hillbilly

Algoriddim's djay (free) will also do this. And it will give you hours of addictive fun too...

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