Slowing down runs to learn from--

Bill Myrick · Post by **Bill Myrick** » 19 Dec 2004 7:53 am

I see posts at various times about someone "slowing down" a piece that they are trying to copy. What is available today that can do this ? Would it be a computer program of some kind or some special playing device ? Thanks , Bill Myrick.

Dave Potter · Post by **Dave Potter** » 19 Dec 2004 8:54 am

I use Adobe Audition to do that, among other things.

I think most any quality audio editor will be able to do that and more.

John McGann · Post by **John McGann** » 19 Dec 2004 9:08 am

There are a bunch out there. The easiest and one I like is The amazing Slow Downer:
http://www.ronimusic.com

for Mac OR PC.

You can slow down to any increment (70%- sure! 50%? 35%- whatever you want), tune the track to yourself, change pitch to any key, etc. Wish it was around 30 years ago!

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Jon Jaffe · Post by **Jon Jaffe** » 19 Dec 2004 9:20 am

Try the Amazing Slow Downer, for both Mac and Windoze. Slows down without pitch change. Great software.

http://www.ronimusic.com/amsldowin.htm (Windoze) http://www.ronimusic.com/amsldox.htm
(Mac)

Bill Myrick · Post by **Bill Myrick** » 19 Dec 2004 10:13 am

Thanks Guys-- Am I right that anything I want to slow down must be fed into the computer from the source such as a tape or CD then edited and re recorded out to the source to use at my steel location ? (my computer is in an office where I don't have access to set my steel up)

Roger Kelly · Post by **Roger Kelly** » 19 Dec 2004 12:18 pm

Bill, here is another way to do what you want.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=home/search/detail/base_id/101567

Louie Hallford · Post by **Louie Hallford** » 26 Dec 2004 9:06 pm

A friend has a small unit made by Sabine. I am almost sure he paid less than 75$ for it.
He had worked at the music store earlier and this could have been a special price for him

Worth checking out. Don't recall it having all the bells and whistles as the one mentioned above coming from Musician Friend

Edward Efira · Post by **Edward Efira** » 27 Dec 2004 10:50 am

there is a nice piece of freeware called "audacity" that does that really well plus many other things like recording, de-noising, converting to many sound formats etc...
really worth trying,
Ed

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Dave Potter · Post by **Dave Potter** » 6 Jan 2005 9:04 am

<< Am I right that anything I want to slow down must be fed into the computer from the source such as a tape or CD then edited and re recorded out to the source to use at my steel location ?

I didn't see an answer to that question, so, yes, once you've segregated the portion of the file you want to slow down, you will generally apply whatever effect/plug-in/whatever-the software-calls-it to the clip to get the sound you want, then Save-as/render/export/whatever-the-software-calls-it to a new file you can then save to something portable and take it to another computer to play it.

Jeff Garden · Post by **Jeff Garden** » 6 Jan 2005 12:12 pm

If you don't want to use a computer to figure stuff out (mine's not in the same room with my steel), here's a setup that works pretty well...I have a TASCAM CD-A500 CD/cassette player hooked up to a TR-1000 Digital Music Study Recorder. I can record up to 90 seconds of a CD or cassette onto the TR-1000 to figure out. The TR-1000 slows things down up to 26 times - realistically you'd probably never need more than 1/4 for most stuff (except for guys like Doug Jernigan!). Because it's digital, there's no drop in pitch. I let my Stereo Steel amp power the CD/cassette player and run the TR-1000 output right back into the amp so I can play along with it.

Gary Ulinskas · Post by **Gary Ulinskas** » 6 Jan 2005 12:31 pm

For Bill Myrick
Bill, I use Slowblast. It allows a person to slow down the whole song or just parts of it. Since my steel is in a separate room from my computer , I feed the audio output of my computer (thru the earphone jack) to the microphone jack of a small Sony tape recorder I have. That way I can replay the tape next to the steel.

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 6 Jan 2005 1:00 pm

There's a SLOWDOWNER plug-in available [free]
thru WINAMP.

I've tried it thru early versions of Winamp and the latest [v.5.1] and neither works for me.

Brand new eMachine [T2984] pc w/HomeXP, too. Two Winamp reverb plugins also didn't work.

But Winamp's LOOPMASTER and LEO's LYRIC SEARCH plugfins work.