How do I ‘print’ with VariSpeed?

[Jay Menon]

I applied VariSpeed to a backing track in F and brought it to E major. Now it’s perfect for my vocal range.

But when I try to export it (to make a CD I can practice with in the car) it’s back at Fmajor again.

How do I print it with the lowered pitch please?

[BJG145]

Is this a DAW plugin? What software are you using?

If there's some confusion over FX not being applied in an export, you could try freezing the track if there's the option.

[BigRedX]

This is "varispeed" in Logic?

You should be able to bounce the track with the effect in place to produce a new audio file.

[Jay Menon]

Sorry guys I should have specified - Logic Pro X

It doesn't seem to be a plug in - but a tool in Logic Pro to alter tempo, and if desired also the pitch.

Sounds lovely, but I just cannot bounce it or export it without the pitch returning a semitone upwards, back to F Major...

[sdiedrichsen]

As an alternative, you can use the track transpose. This engages FlexTime, so you might need to play with the correct algorithm. Polyphonic will do in most cases. This can be bounced.

[MarkOne]

As an alternative, you can use the track transpose. This engages FlexTime, so you might need to play with the correct algorithm. Polyphonic will do in most cases. This can be bounced.

This would be what I'd do.

In the region inspector on the left hand side, look for Transpose. (You can either type in a semitone value or mouse up or down as required - Don't use the up and down arrows as those are in Octave steps.)

Then you select the track and bounce in place. The resulting wav has the transposition printed. Or just bounce out the project to an audio file

[BigRedX]

Sorry guys I should have specified - Logic Pro X

It doesn't seem to be a plug in - but a tool in Logic Pro to alter tempo, and if desired also the pitch.

Sounds lovely, but I just cannot bounce it or export it without the pitch returning a semitone upwards, back to F Major...

I don't think my version of Logic is new enough to include this, so how does it work? On an individual region or on the whole arrangement? Is it linked to the tempo so it works like vari-speed on a tape recorder. If that's the case you should be able to use something like Audio Hi-jack to capture the var-speeded output.

[Jay Menon]

As an alternative, you can use the track transpose. This engages FlexTime, so you might need to play with the correct algorithm. Polyphonic will do in most cases. This can be bounced.

This would be what I'd do.

In the region inspector on the left hand side, look for Transpose. (You can either type in a semitone value or mouse up or down as required - Don't use the up and down arrows as those are in Octave steps.)

Then you select the track and bounce in place. The resulting wav has the transposition printed. Or just bounce out the project to an audio file

Worked an absolute treat! Thank you both