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Software that plays tunes at different speeds

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 10:39 pm
by jlbreyer
I think I remember reading here about some software that takes a tune and plays it slower that nominal tempo without losing the pitch. If anyone recognizes this, please give me a pointer.

I think it is intended for a practice aid.

jlb

The Amazing Slow Downer

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 11:46 pm
by Ken Kugler
This works pretty well for speed change!

http://www.ronimusic.com/slowdown.htm

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:03 am
by UDELBR
That's a GREAT program for transcribing jazz solos!!

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:39 am
by jlbreyer
UncleBeer wrote:That's a GREAT program for transcribing jazz solos!!
Dumb question, I think. Does The Amazing Slow Downer transcribe for you, say to a MIDI file, or do you slow it down so you can write out the intervals by hand?

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:39 am
by UDELBR
jlbreyer wrote: Does The Amazing Slow Downer transcribe for you, say to a MIDI file, or do you slow it down so you can write out the intervals by hand?
I do it by hand; it's GREAT for the ear.

Anyway, as far as I know, there's no currently available software that'll reliably transfer audio to MIDI. They're starting to get more accurate with single lines (just melody on the audio track, NOTHING else), but if there's any polyphony, accuracy goes out the window.

Re: Software that plays tunes at different speeds

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:19 am
by Mark
jlbreyer wrote:I think I remember reading here about some software that takes a tune and plays it slower that nominal tempo without losing the pitch. If anyone recognizes this, please give me a pointer.

I think it is intended for a practice aid.
I've got Slow Gold and it works as advertised: http://www.slowgold.com/.

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:46 am
by Dan Schultz
I use a digital audio editing program called GoldWave. It doesn't cost much to register and is available for trial download from:

http://www.goldwave.com

It seems to 'do it all'... from mixing and editing, warping, ripping tracks from CD's, etc.... to importing/exporting just about any file type. It's a nice program.

Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:06 am
by horto008
A plugin for winamp called pacemaker works really really well. You can get winamp from www.winamp.com, and I believe they have all the links for downloading plugins on their site.

Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:39 am
by jmh3412
Windows Media Player 10 has this feature as standard. If you have access to a full version off Band in a BOX there is also a bundled programme that will alow you to slow down sections of music and loop (SLow Burn??)