Pitch change w/o time change

[wood_shedder]

T1.601 (NFR, or freeloader to platinumears )

Alrighty, I know I did this before but now it don't work?!?! I've been doing bass guitar by play my regular ol' guitar and then dropping the pitch by one octave (forgive me you real bass guitarists ). Now when I drop the pitch one octave on a track, it also time stretches the track. Whassup with that? Thanks for helping out a newbie!

[Mr. Tingle]

alt-drag-grab the top right (white) arrow on a clip to the required length.

[wood_shedder]

Thanks for your reply Tingle. Forgive me for being a dunderhead, but that didn't work for me. I dropped the pitch one octave using the change pitch/speed button (this stretches the clip in time). When I do the alt-drag to get the required length, the pitch returns back to original too, which is not what I want. I dunno what I'm doing different from in the past. I have in the past just hit chosen the "-1 octave" selection in the change pitch/speed menu, and the time wasn't stretched, but now it does stretch it. I must have changed some setting somewhere which affects this??

[AD80]

You can also try dropping a pitch shift filter right on top of the clip and adjusting it from there. That way you can choose -1 octave etc without changing the length.

[wood_shedder]

Oops! hee hee. That IS what I actually did in the past, now that I look closer at a previous clip where I did that. That's what I get for having so many tracks on screen that everything is too tiny to actually see the filters without expanding the tracks. Thanks for your help AD80. I'll slink away quietly now.

[AD80]

No prob!

[zkaudio]

That's how I do my bass too Les paul custom w/ pitch shifter plugin... make sure your action is high enough, fret buzz sounds like hell when u drop it an octave