Ever wondered how people make those sounds sound like the "Alvin And The Chipmunks" ??? Well now your going to learn how to make your own. Any song you want!

Things You Need

• Firefox (Not Needed- Reccomended)
• Firefox Add-on "Download Helper" (Not Needed- Recommended)
• Audacity (http://www.download.com/Audacity/3000-2170_4-10058117.html?tag=lst-0-1)
• Lame MP3 Encoder (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows)

Alright everyone. Lets get started! First make sure you download Audacity. This is the program we will be mainly using. Lame MP3 Encoder is only needed because it is an add-on to Audacity if you want to convert your Audacity song to a .mp3 file. Now if you don't have a song you want to edit, go download firefox and then the add-on listed above named "Download Helper"

Now go to playlist.com and search a song. Click the play button next to the song you want to edit. Now on your firefox toolbar, next to your address bar in firefox you should see the download helper icon. It is 3 circles jumbled together, now if the song is playing there should be a down arrow next to the download helper icon. Click it, there should be a file. Click it, then save it as yoursongnamehere.mp3

The .mp3 part is the most important part. This won't work out without it. Now once you have your song you want, go open audacity. Click "file" and go down to important. Now click "audio" and search for your song. Once it is opened, you should see a music track with a pitch time line. Use your mouse, and start at the beginning of the time line, now drag your whole mouse over the whole song. Make sure the song is paused first. Once you have selected the whole song, click the "Effect" tab on the top. There should be an option of  "Change Pitch" then click it.

Once the "Change Pitch" window comes up, change the "semitones" text box to 12.00 and the percent change to 100.00 and click ok. Wait for it to process and load, now listen to it. It's sounds like chipmunks!

To export your song to your computer in a .mp3 format, click the file tab, then export. Save it as what ever you want, just make sure you save the file type as a .mp3. To do this, on the "Save as type" drop down box when the save window comes up, click the drop down arrow and you should see .mp3

Click it then click save. Congrats! You just created (most likely) your first chipmunk song!

That's all for now! Thanks for looking,
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