On 22 Dec 2006 at 9:47, Christopher Smith wrote: > > On Dec 21, 2006, at 9:42 PM, shirling & neueweise wrote: > > > > >> I'm curious is there a way to change the pitch of "A" in the > >> playback features for Finale, e.g. to adjust down to 410 ? > > > > assuming you are using a tuning of 440Hz, adjust all your tempos to > > 93% of the original (410/440) > > > > First off, adjust the playback tempo to be 7.3% (440/410) faster, or > 107.3% of the original (BPM x 107.3). Then save an audio file. Then > set the playback of the audio file to be 93% of the speed at which it > was recorded. Then the pitch will be lower AND the tempo will be the > same.
Audacity can change pitch and tempo independently (as should be the case for any audio application that can do digital manipulation of a waveform). > Or just playback from inside Finale a semitone lower, which would do > largely the same thing (though you would be about 1.2% short, or > around 415 instead of 410). Maybe the last 1.2% (5 Hz) could be > accomplished by retuning the playback device. This is a different > procedure for different devices. How do you accomplish "playback from inside Finale a semitone lower"? I thought Kim's request for A410 was strange, as that's not a recognized historical pitch with which I'm familiar. I know that A415 is not really historical, either (just convenient in an A440-based world), but if he asked for A410, then I think we who are suggesting solutions should be offering solutions to the question he *asked*, not the one we know the answer to! As to those who've suggested transposition in Finale, that's fine as long as there aren't already transposing instruments in the score. C scores are not common in early music (nor should they be), so that's very possibly an issue with the scores he's dealing with. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
