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[DHF]

I tried the wiki but there isn't any information on pitch adjust.  So I will ask it here.

Concert A is 440 Hz.  If I wanted to adjust Concert A to 432 Hz, how much should I lower the pitch in pitch adjust?

Thanks in advance.

[Matt]

432 / 440 = 0.98182

[DHF]

Thanks Matt!  welcome back.

[DHF]

So -.98182x in the settings?   Is the adjustment all 5 decimal places and the display just truncated to 2 decimal places?

[Matt]

Is the adjustment all 5 decimal places and the display just truncated to 2 decimal places?

Yes.

[mojave]

I think you actually want to use -.01818 or else there is a bug in the DSP.

[mojave]

By the way, are you changing everything to 432 Hz or just music that originally would have been played with Concert A at 432 Hz? If the latter, how do you know whether the recording was done with the orchestra, etc. tuned to 440 Hz or 432 Hz? It could be that the recording is already with music tuned to 432 Hz and now you are lowering to 424 Hz. Just curious. I also saw this on Wikipedia:

Many modern ensembles which specialize in the performance of Baroque music have agreed on a standard of A = 415 Hz.

[DHF]

A friend called.   I forced him to switch to J \River from Media Monkey 6 months ago.  Tagging in Media Monkey is a mess.  But I digress....
He told me about a group of musicians that feel that concert A at 432 Hz is more pleasing and organic - and that somehow in modern orchestras Concert A has been switched to 440 Hz.  

His buddy showed him this with a plugin for foobar that altered pitch.

In defense of JRiver I told him no plugins needed - he could do it in the DSP settings - but I needed Matt's help to figure it out.
Google 432 Hz.  There is stuff out there about it.   And it's on the internet, so we know it to be true  

Maybe crazy but I was just showing him how easy it is in JRiver.

But I have no idea how to tell if an orchestra is tuned to 440, 432, or 415 Hz.  

And now I'm not sure if I told him the right way to do it.  .98182 or -.01818

I am trying it on a laptop.  Can't really tell if it is more organic or anything.....

[mojave]

I created a 440 Hz sine wave in Audacity. I played it in JRiver and analyzed it with the Voxengo SPAN VST plugin. With the Tempo & Pitch DSP turned off, it played at 440 Hz.

With the DSP turned on and pitch set to -0.01818 it played at 432 Hz.
With the pitch set to -0.98182, the 440 Hz tone shifted down to about 226 Hz.

1.0-.98182=0.01818

[DHF]

Thanks for the help, mojave and Matt.

[Laozi]

there is something wrong...
when I set the pitch at -0,18 the sound is horrible...
In foobar2000 I set the rate at -1,82 and the music is divine.
When I set the same value in JRiver the music is unbearable...

any ideas?

[Hendrik]

Looking at the numbers above, you may have missed one zero and accidentally changed the pitch by far too much?
-0.018, not -0.18

[Laozi]

Ok, thanks.

But what about the rate value? there in JRiver should be some other value?

[Laozi]

Looking at the numbers above, you may have missed one zero and accidentally changed the pitch by far too much?
-0.018, not -0.18

How to set it to -0.018?
Thanks

[patxilek]

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