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Registered User
Join Date: May 2010
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I was wondering what the percentage of Pitch modification is per half step?
I believe per Step, its 15%. So half step is 7.5% When I get bored of playing a song, I speed up the song and play with the higher pitch and increased speed with a Capo, and I go by the idea that 1 Step is 15% increase in pitch, so 2 then Capo goes on the second fret. Sometimes I increase the speed by pretty insane amounts, like 40% speed and the tuning is still correct. This is the equation that I use, but is it right? Is there a sort of official equation? It works perfectly fine for me. |
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Micropolyphoner
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Winnipeg, Canada
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What exactly are you asking?
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Join Date: May 2010
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When you increase the pitch of some form of audio, it increases it's pitch and it's speed. So you take a guitar riff on a guitar tuned to D. You increase it's pitch by 15% and it now sounds like a guitar tuned in Standard, just played faster. |
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Contrapunctalist
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: The Netherlands
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An octave means a doubling of the frequency, so a factor 2. Since an octave is twelve steps, you get the 12th root of 2 per half step, which is around 1.0594. This is for equal temperament only.
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Join Date: Jul 2011
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One half-step should be the 12th root of 2 (go up 12 half steps, and you've doubled your frequency). I think this is a 5.94% increase. A whole step would be 12%. If you go up 15% instead, you're introducing about a quarter-step worth or error. If that's "perfectly fine" your ear could probably use a little work. |
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