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Thread #76855 Message #1367448
Posted By: Bob Bolton
30-Dec-04 - 04:33 AM
Thread Name: Recorder to slow down music?
Subject: RE: Recorder to slow down music?
G'day again Uncle_DaveO,
The "Tascam CD-GT1 Trainer" cited by our GUEST of 29 Dec 04 - 10:32 AM is the unit I had tracked down for possible use with our Dance Workshop. The speed options: 50%; 66%; 84%; 92% of original speed are much coarser than I remembered ... but I never got to see (or hear) the unit, which was pretty pricey at some Australian $400 - since it was a one-off import by a small firm that brought in two ... when one of their employees wanted one for her dance class.
Our Dance Workshop ended up with a more flexible unit ... probably someting like the Superscope and/or Marantz Professional PSD 300 mmentioned bt open mike. Their main caller (an electronics engineer) located a good one, at a low price, on E-Bay ... and it worked very well. I had already remastered our old 10-Cassette teaching resource as a 2-CD set, with a few more tracks, and Don was able to pick up most of the older cassette strays into WAV format and burn CD-Rs for use in the new unit.
Of course the dancers were not concerned about pitch, as instrumentalsits would be ... but the ability to work at different speed and in pitch may come in handy if I have to practice my Music Workshop group with the Dance Display Group for specific tune sets ... we can also sneak up on the fast & furious sets - at real pitch, but saner speeds!
Regards,
Bob