Pitch Shifter

Move any song up or down by semitones - tape-style, clean, and instant. Preview live, then export the shifted version as WAV. Nothing uploads.

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Semitones, keys, and what to pick

A semitone is one piano key. Common jobs: -1 to -3 brings a song down to a comfortable singing range; +1 fixes a track recorded a half-step flat; -2 matches a song in D to a guitar playing open-position C shapes with a capo off. Work out exact distances with the transpose calculator, check the result against the note-to-frequency table, and if you are shifting to sing along, find your range first with the vocal range test.

Pitch Shifter FAQ

How do I change the key of a song?

Load the file and drag the slider to the number of semitones you need: +2 takes a song in C to D, -3 takes C to A. Every guitar-friendly transposition is a whole number of semitones. If you know the source and target keys but not the distance, the transpose calculator does the counting for you.

Why does the song get faster when I raise the pitch?

This tool shifts pitch the way tape and vinyl do - by resampling. Speed and pitch move together: +12 semitones plays twice as fast, -12 half as fast. That coupling is what keeps the sound artifact-free; it is the same trick as spinning a record faster. If you need the tempo to stay put instead, use the time stretcher, which holds speed and moves nothing but time.

Can I shift the pitch without changing the speed?

Not in this tool - pitch-shift-at-constant-tempo requires a phase vocoder, which trades the clean resampled sound for smearing artifacts, and browsers do not ship one natively. The honest browser options are: pitch and speed together (this page, clean), or speed without pitch (the time stretcher, mild artifacts). For karaoke-style key changes where a small tempo drift is acceptable, resampling at ±1-3 semitones changes speed by only 6-19% - often fine in practice.

Is my audio uploaded?

No. Decoding, preview, and the WAV export all run locally in your browser - the file never leaves your device, and the page works offline once loaded.