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I still use biab 2007 and have used BB for years, but I am stumped with this problem. BB on playback of any bb song the chords and melody are correct but now on play back of the song the pitch is a half of tone higher. It does it to audacity vanbasco all my mp3s and wav files. has anyone have this happen and how did you fix the problem , it appears my Toshiba laptop has a mind of its own I have tried all I know without getting into trouble. This may have to go to another forum but if any one can throw some light on to it , Regards Lance Brisbane Australia
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Hi Lance, First thing I'd check is your speaker playback. It sounds like it might be set to 48,000 Hz. BIAB needs 44,100 Hz to operate at the correct pitch. If you go to "Speaker Properties" (#1) in Windows, check to see if #2 on the image below is set to 48,000 Hz  It's possible to set this to 44,100 Hz using the dropdown arrow. Rather than change the frequency, activate #3 so that BIAB will take control of the soundcard when you start it up and will automatically set it to 44,100 Hz. Let us know the outcome. If the above doesn't work, we'll work through other possibilities. Kind regards, Noel
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Hello Noel what a pleasant surprise and so quick I have tried but still no joy I will get back to you and let you know the outcome Regards Lance
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Some laptops have a "Karaoke" function addon to the System that changes the Pitch of all Audio the machine plays back.
Check your System Control Panel, Sounds (or it may be labeled as something else, a proprietary name) to see if your laptop has that "feature" - which sometimes gets inadvertently toggled to another pitch all on its own.
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If you have recently updated a program and/or the system, you might try rolling back to the last good setup - assuming your computer is creating recovery points along the way - the equivalent of BIAB's Return to factory settings.
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Hello Noel96 I have tried to set to the correct Mhz but the laptop still mantains the half tone up this applies to BIAB and all of by audio players. I tried default all thru but to now avail. Do have any other ideas that may help regards Lance
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Hi Lance,
What version of Windows do you have?
Also, when you say, "I tried default all thru", I'm not quite sure what you mean. Could you please provide a little more information. For example: what steps you followed to set that (i.e. opened Control Panel, clicked on Sounds, etc ....).
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Hello Mac I have tried the karaoke enquiry but to no avail. I use BIAB Vanbasco power tracks and wmp for my playbacks they all play back half of tone up also. I Use windows 7 home premium. I will keep checking and any more ideas you may have would be appreciated regards lance
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Lance, In Vanbasco, what is the "Key" within the "Control" section set to (see image below)?  Regards, Noel
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Thank for your reply Here how I go, Control Panel go to sounds right click speakers icon from drop menu click properties then click advanced press defaults for the speakers they show up as 24 Bit 48000 Hz (studio quality) then press apply.
Now with recording the same process ensures and it comes up 2 channel 16 bit 44100Hz (cd quality) press apply and then close the icon. Also I have tried 44100 Hz for the speakers and recording the half problem still happens . Regards Lance
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Noel Thanks again the heart started to flutter got onto Van Basco and the damn knob was on 0% , but I still got faith regards lance.
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Hi Lance,
It's the playback settings of 48,000 Hz that affect the sound output and not the recording settings of 44,100 Hz.
Go back to your playback settings and set them to 44,100 Hz rather than 48,000 Hz. I reckon that that's the problem.
Also, scroll up this web page and and look at my very first post in this thread, the one with the image. See where I have labelled the number "3", make sure that that option ("Allow applications to take exclusive control of the device") has a tick.
Let us know the results.
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One more thing to try; Click on GM in the toolbar at the top, then Master Tuning. Make sure that is set to 440. This control allows you to tune BIAB to another instrument that may not be at 440. Later, Ray
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Thank You all for your help ,problem now solved, thanks to you all for your ideas.
This how it was solved
Start>Control Panel>Sound>Playback>High light Speaker icon>Click>Properties>Enhancements>On the left side click off (Pitch shift Equalizer and any other squares that may have been clicked make sure that these are vacant squares).
Go to SETTINGS on the left side And adjust setting to zero the job is now done, hope this make sense to you again thanks aussie Lance
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Hi Lance,
I'm glad you got it all sorted out! That's excellent news. What version of Windows do you have?
All the best with making songs!
Noel
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