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I imagine there's drums and instruments on the track, which makes it harder to be clean, especially on cymbals.

Use Varispeed to bring the whole project down with speed and pitch.

Once you got the pitch set, bounce the project.

Then bring the file back in and you can speed it back up to the original tempo.

 

But none of this will be a flawless transposition. There will always be artifacts, even barely audible.

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There is no reason to assume that the cassette recorder was *exactly* a half step off, so there is no point in correcting by *exactly* a half step.

 

- Switch the audio tracks with the tape transfer to Flex Speed, as this will affect tempo and pitch, just like tape does

- create another track with an unchorused rhodes piano

- while you keep playing on the rhodes in the supposed key of the song, change the project tempo until the audio tracks sound perfectly in tune with the e-piano

- Bounce-In-Place the tape tracks to make their speed permanent

 

This should not take more than a minute.

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ok, I understand the piano solution. thanks!

But I think there should be a way to change the speed by notes... it would be simpler, and more if I have to do it with all the cassettes... bufff...

 

Not in Logic.

But there's an app called Transcribe where you can detune a song by half-steps and cents and then export the file. I use it constantly for transcribing music, especially when the original recording is not on pitch.

 

https://www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/overview.html

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