In the simplest of terms, pitch can be thought of as how high or low a sound goes. Higher-pitched noises are squeaky and shrill, while lower-pitched noises are bassy and booming.

A pitch envelope applies pitch changes over time. Adjusting its shape and amount determines the speed and response of the shift, and possible uses include drum hit tuning, adding punch to sounds with ...

In Western music, the pitch of the same note doubles with each ascending octave, so tones with frequencies of 27.5 hertz, 55 hertz, 110 hertz, 220 hertz, and so on, are all heard as the note A.

Denon throws the perfect pitch. Denon plays compact discs, not baseball. The Denon DCD-2560 is the rare, if not unique, CD player that allows you to adjust the pitch of the music. Many musicians an… ...

Most importantly, remember that a pitch won't stand out if all it does is broadly endorse the music. While many music stories do hinge on taste, just as important to us are history, community ...

After going back to school for music composition at age 40, he discovered he could use those same algorithms for the seamless looping of digital music samples, and later for pitch correction. Auto ...

This fall, the music of Pitch Perfect joined a crowded field of soundtracks that cover well-loved songs, but even with shows like Glee, Smash, American Idol and The Voice hitting the scene well ...

Some DAWs come with these kinds of plugins built-in. Logic has Flex Pitch, for example, which delivers great results. Steinberg’s Cubase also has its own plugin, VariAudio, which can easily handle all ...

Cher’s 1998 hit ‘Believe’ debuted the use of a technology called “Auto-Tune”, a pitch correcting software that has since changed the music industry.