Audigy2 Female-to-Male facility

[Pipski]

Hi, I need at least one female voice for a cutscene I have in mind.  Any of the females of my acquaintance would, quite rightly, slap my face if I asked them to record corny dialogue for an amateur addon to a computer game so I could distribute on the Interweb - and frankly I'd think less of them if I didn't.  

However, my Soundblaster Audigy 2 has all manner of software bundled with it.  One is a little effects studio that allows you to tinker with files as they are being played back.  One of these effects can be used to turn male voices into female.  The effectiveness varies - some vocalists translate genders very well and others don't(James sound pretty convincing as women but Kenickie make very poor men).  

It would be great if I could record my dialogue, translate it into `woman' using this program and then save it as a new .wav.  Trouble is, I can only get the damned thing to apply the FX to playback of files, not to save the played back file as a new one.  Does anyone out there know how this might be accomplished?  Or, failing that, know of any other (freely available) utilities that might accomplish this?  At the end of the day the `FX' only amounts to moving the pitch up an octave I think.

Cheers!

[KyleEasterly]

check download.cnet.com for some kind of software that lets you record system sounds... or if you have a spare soundcard:

hook it up
get a male-male audio cable
attach audigy's line out the spare's microphone in
playback using the audigy and in theory, any recording software should pick it up... it might work better if you had 2 computers, not sure on if recording software will only record from one and how to set which one it records from.

[Pipski]

Cheers Kyle but I found an even easier solution!  The reason I was getting confused is that I assumed that the FX options just modulated the file being played, but they don't.  They change the parameters for everything that's played through the soundcard (discovered by accident when Windows beeped at the wrong pitch during playback).  i.e., rather than applying any alterations to your sound file they adjust your sound card so that it comes out sounding different to normal.  A bit like using the graphic equalizer on a stereo - it doesn't affect the files on your CD.  So simply adjusting the FX levels to what you want, playing back the file in any old sound program, as long as it goes through your soundcard, and pressing the record button is all that's required!  And there's a prog bundled with the card that does that job fairly nicely.  All I need to do now is write the dialogue ... Tx for the suggestions though.