Change pitch on internal microphone.

Hi guys,
I need to change the pitch for the input on the internal microphone. It needs to be actively converting the pitch so I can hear myself with a different pitched voice. I need this feature for my work as I'm currently in the process of writing a draft script, so to aid the editors experience I would like to record the different parts with different pitches (thus making a series of characters) anyway, this is beside the point. Is there any easy way of changing the pitch of whatever comes through my mic?
Thanks,
Mike

Generally you record a standard waveform and then alter it to have a higher pitch, as opposed to altering the input itself. You can do this with GarageBand, if you ahve it installed. Just start a new voice project then select the input track and click the "Real Instrument" section of the sidebar, followed by clicking the "Edit" tab. In here click one of the empty rectangles and add the "AUPitch" filter. Then click the icon for the filter and you can change the pitch and other features that the filter offers. In addition to a basic pitch option, you can use others like the "Speech Enhancer", and "Vocal Transformer" filters to adjust vocals.

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