# Transposition and Pitch Adjustment

Capo's time stretching engine also allows you to transpose music and adjust its pitch more finely without affecting playback speed.

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)

# Related Topics

- The Heads-Up Display
- Adjusting Song Speed
- Using Effects