Transposition and Pitch Adjustment
In the Heads-Up Display, click on the PITCH button to activate the transposition and pitch adjustment controls.
Transposition
Transposition helps you learn a song in a different key, or make bass lines easier to hear by shifting the song up by one or more octaves.
Change the key of the song
- Using your mouse, drag the pitch adjustment slider to change the key of the song
- Using your keyboard, press the up or down arrow while holding the command key to change one semitone at a time

Transpose by an octave at a time
- While holding the command and option keys, press the up or down arrow
Pitch Adjustment
The ability to finely adjust the pitch of a song is especially handy for recordings that may be out of tune. If you don't have a tunable instrument (harmonica, saxophone, digital piano), you can also use Capo to correct the song to match your instrument's tuning.
Adjusting the pitch using your mouse
- Using your mouse, hold the shift key while dragging the pitch adjustment slider to disable snapping to semitone increments
Adjusting the pitch finely (by one cent—1/100th of a semitone—at a time)
- While holding the command and shift keys, press the up or down arrows
- We recommended that you adjust the pitch finely while looping a section, so you can hear the changes you make more clearly
TIP: Once the pitch is finely adjusted, use the keyboard commands if you must transpose to a new key so your fine tuning changes are not lost. |
Reset the pitch
- While holding the command key, press 0 (zero)