For my tutorial I chose to show a trick I learned by watching other tutorials, changing pitch or tone of a recording. For this particular project I used pitch controls for the character’s voices. I felt as though most of the sound effects I acquired and recorded portrayed the correct sound I had intended on. But, I was unable to achieve the exact tones of the voices; therefore, I figured out how to change the pitch to add to the realness of each character’s voice.

First, you open the library (button looking like a file cabinet) on the top left corner, then open the smart controls (button looking like a volume dial) on the top left corner as well. From here, you will chose “voice” from the drop down list on the left, which then provides an adjacent list of many vocal options. I used the Compressed Vocal controls.

From the Compressed Vocals dialog box, there is a little button in the top right corner that has four black boxes in a square and then one white button underneath. Once you click on this unnoticeable button, you are introduced to a dialog box with a bunch of different dials and controls.

Once you open this dialog box, considered the “Pedalboard,” there is a search bar at the top left hand corner. Here, you can chose what type of audio tone you would like to focus on. I chose “pitch” from the drop down list. The “pitch” option then presents a bunch of different types of pitch you can aim for. I worked with the different options depending on what voice I was editing.

For example, when I was fixing the baby bear’s voice, I used the “Octave Up” option. Once clicking on this I was presented with a red, juke-box-looking screen. There is the option to either lower/high the “tone” or change the setting on the “mix” dial. I stayed away from the “mix” dial and strictly made use of raising the tone for the baby bear’s voice.

Once I changed the numeric setting of the tone, I would exit out of this “Pedalboard” dialog box and play back the portion of voice that I had just changed the pitch of. Depending on what I heard, I may have gone back in and moved the dial again, or left it because I was content with the first tone.