Big Bad Booty Daddy
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Is there a program where I can input a wav or mp3 and it can tell me what key its in? Sorry if this was posted before, but i tried the search and came up with nothing.
Program to determine Key?
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PlanetHitzProduction
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Use your ears man. That's the program.
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ZeroGrav
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Use your ears...
Obitheincredible
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Buy a guitar tuner and it will tell you most of the notes being played in samples.
Peter Bull
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after 3 years of guitarplaying i manage to figure out the key with my ears..
I use a pretty long winded but free way. I load up the audio clip into Audacity and highlight a thin instrumental section, possibly just the melody playing etc.. I then go to Analyze > Plot Spectrum. This will bring up a graph showing the frequencies present in the song. Change the setting from 512 to 16384. Now the graph will be very jagged and harsh, you can clearly see the peaking harmonics.
Make the window as big as you can and begin to move your mouse over the peaking frequencies. Write down what note it is and go along the graph, writing down the peaks; until you have a full octave of peaks.
You can then begin to suss out the key from the notes you have jotted down.
Long and time consuming I know but it works for me, hope this helps.
Make the window as big as you can and begin to move your mouse over the peaking frequencies. Write down what note it is and go along the graph, writing down the peaks; until you have a full octave of peaks.
You can then begin to suss out the key from the notes you have jotted down.
Long and time consuming I know but it works for me, hope this helps.
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hastyleboygenious
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The Infamous Ghost
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either use your ear or what i do when its hard to figure out i usually play the song and play either strings or a bassline over the track when you play the wrong key you can tell but if its the right key it fits in so nicely 
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theorytheproducer
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listen to codeine... www.mixedinkey.com
Gives you the key and the bpm, you can batch process and have it rename files with key and bpm in the name as well . Great cheap solution....not to mention, any serato dj should be using this method.
Gives you the key and the bpm, you can batch process and have it rename files with key and bpm in the name as well . Great cheap solution....not to mention, any serato dj should be using this method.