Alvin and the Chipmunks is an American animated music group created by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. in 1958. The group consists of three singing animated anthropomorphic chipmunks. You would have heard Chipmunk version of many songs in YouTube or elsewhere. Ever wondered how to create them? This Guide will help you to exactly do the same.
The process involves speeding up the playback to create higher pitched songs, which sounds exactly like the chipmunks.
Create Chipmunk Version of Any Song
- Choose the song which you need to modify.
- Open Audacity. If you don’t have it, Download it from here. Audacity is an open source audio manipulation software.
- Go to File>Open and choose your song.
- Click Ctrl + A to highlight the entire song.
- Go to Effects>Change Pitch and change the percent to 115.500. Click OK to exit.
- Go to File>Export to save the Chipmunk version of your song in any format.
If the pitch is too high, to hear and the “Chipmunk” voices are too high, instead of 115.500, change the pitch to something lower. To save the audio in the .mp3 format, you need the lame_enc.dll which you can download from here.
Hope you liked this tutorial. Don’t forget to share your experience through the comments.
This guest article is written by Ganesh Babu, a 11th standard student who blogs at Axleration .If you wish to write for us, kindly check this.
didnt work that well
Thanks a loot for the Post ! 🙂 Good luck to You !! 11th Grader? I see a bright Future In You 😀
Thank you mate ! but I’ve completed my 12th grade and got my results just today ! ^_^
You can also use VirtualDJ- It's easy and powerful!
Greta, and Audacity is simply amazin!!!
Ganesh, you did a very good job on here. I would like to say thanks on here. 🙂 Great work.
The way they originally did it was to take a recording of the music. play it back at half speed. record normal singing to the slow music (at the half speed). then return the speed back to normal.
I created my own chipmunk band like Alvin and the Chipmunks but gave them new looks their names are Kane,Chris,and Randy and the bands name is Kane and the Coolmunks here is the URL to a video of them that I uploaded them onto Youtube with their picture so here it is
Cool Writeup!!
Hey,
Really funny idea of modifying everything to sound like chipmunks, hehe. I’ve never used Audacity untill now, you convinced me to try it. Great feature of changing the pitch, they thought well of creating this program with everything necessarely. Thank you very much for sharing this great program and amusing me with the chipmunk thing, heh.
Best regards,
Maria
Wonderful and excitement …………achievement to create Create Chipmunk Version Of Any Song. thanks for sharing this useful technique.
Nice tool for music I just try it. Add my favourite music.
Nice Find Ganesh.. this sounds cool.. 🙂
Believe me I have not yet heard Chipmunks version of songs but would like to listen at once to know what it is??? 🙂
Just try googling your favorite song followed by “chipmunk version” you’ll be amazed to see there are many results for that
lol… cool Tutorial… definitely i will try it out
It works on my Itunes but i uploaded it to Fileden.. so i can put it on a flash player for my myspace page it is not Elmos version of I want a hippo for christmas it sounds like the Chipmunks version?
Great way!! i always looking for this tutorial but was lazy to search it 😛 gonna try it on some songs thanks
All the Best !!
ha ha 🙂 nice
It’s going to be great experiment for me and I’ll try it out. Thanks for sharing such interesting post.
Welcome 🙂
They are so cute !!!!
^_^
Cool tutorial Ganesh, I will try to make Chipmunk versions of my favorite songs 😉 I already have audacity installed
Great ! ATB 🙂
i tried it. it is great fun. chipmunks of airplane song. cooll post
Try uploading it to YouTube and share it with us 🙂
Nice tutorial 🙂 You can even use Virtual DJ for this.
Virtual DJ ? Haven’t heard about it.. I’ll look into it.. Thanks for sharing 🙂