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25 May 06 - 11:19 AM (#1747327) Subject: Tech: Audio slow-down program for practice From: Bill D I found this in my meanderings...looks useful! http://www.xs4all.nl/~mp2004/bp/ BestPractice A free audio time-stretching tool for Windows v0.98 - January 15th 2006 What? BestPractice is a tool to slow down or speed up music, either from a file or directly from a CD. The thing is, that ordinarily the sound is distorted when slowed down our sped up - you get the effect like when playing a 45 rpm record on 33 rpm speed. BestPractice tries to correct this, so you can slow down and speed up music, while keeping the original tune. Since version 0.3 you can also change the pitch of the music without affecting its length. |
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25 May 06 - 11:43 AM (#1747337) Subject: RE: Tech: Audio slow-down program for practice From: katlaughing That's excellent, Bill! Thanks! |
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25 May 06 - 11:50 AM (#1747341) Subject: RE: Tech: Audio slow-down program for practice From: pavane There are a number of these programs around. By a similar method, i.e. fiddling the sampling rates, you can change the pitch without changing the speed - some Karaoke equipment can do this. |
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25 May 06 - 05:47 PM (#1747541) Subject: RE: Tech: Audio slow-down program for practice From: BanjoRay The best of a bunch that I've come across is The Amazing Slowdowner, from www.ronimusic.com. You can isolate small parts of the track and repeat them endlessly, change the pitch to suit your instrument, infinitely variable amount of slow-down, and still sounds intelligible when you've slowed it right down. Excellent. There's a free trial version which gives you full features, but you can only use it on the first couple of tracks of a CD. Cheers Ray |
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26 May 06 - 11:01 AM (#1747911) Subject: RE: Tech: Audio slow-down program for practice From: Bill D And here is another which will do similar things http://nch.com.au/scribe/index.html It is designed for transcription, but says it will play 'most' relevant audio file types (including Real Audio!!)...I will be testing it, as my wife does a lot of transcribing. "Express Scribe is professional audio player software designed to assist the transcription of audio recordings. It is installed on the typist's computer and controlled using the keyboard (with 'hot' keys) and / or can be used with a transcription pedal. This computer transcriber application features variable speed wave playback, foot pedal operation, file management and more. This program is free." |
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26 May 06 - 11:07 AM (#1747917) Subject: RE: Tech: Audio slow-down program for practice From: Paul Burke BestPractice is really good, I especially like the duck quacking in the background sometimes. A few artifacts that make e.g. bagpipes rather gurgly when slowed down a lot, and it could really do with a position bar so you can nudge bak to hear a bit again, or forwards to the difficult part. But very promising. |
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26 May 06 - 02:19 PM (#1748042) Subject: RE: Tech: Audio slow-down program for practice From: Geoff the Duck I think that I might find a duck quacking distracting. Quack! Geoff the Duck. |