Have you tried the Amazing Slow Downer?

[tahitijack]

Has anyone tried the Amazing Slow Dower from ronimusic.com? My guitar teacher showed it to me this week. It is a software program that allows you to play a cd on your computor with controls that allow you to isolate and loop sections by time (ie loop from 1:21 to 1:39); slow it down but keep the correct pitch; adjust the key and more. A review of this product said a concern was that the constant looping would cause premature wearout of the cd reader lens. Any experience or advice? Happy Sunset!

[RandyO]

Never heard of it until now. I just listened to a few slowed mp3 samples and will bookmark and explore more later. The Tascam
CD-GT1 Guitar Trainer has similar properties, but is a hundred dollar piece of hardware. Sometimes technology can be cool.
Thanks.

http://www.ronimusic.com/

http://www.tascam.com/product_info.php?pid=258&nav=guitar_bass_trainers

[FrankiePRS]

FYI, you can do the same trick with Creative (Soundblaster) Audigy software... very cool. All I can think about when I use it is, "ooo - if I had had this when I was 15..." LOL

[San]

FYI, you can do the same trick with Creative (Soundblaster) Audigy software... very cool. All I can think about when I use it is, "ooo - if I had had this when I was 15..." LOL
Hi Frankie,

How do you do this?? I've got an Audigy and never seen an option for ths anywhere, I probably haven't looked too hard though!!

Thanks,

San.

[FrankiePRS]

Hi Frankie,

How do you do this?? I've got an Audigy and never seen an option for ths anywhere, I probably haven't looked too hard though!!

Thanks,

San.

Open the Play Center, go to EAX, the choose the tab labeled "Time Scaling". I have no way to know if all audigy systems came with it, but mine did... and if yours didn't, you could find the software somewhere, I'm sure... it's very cool.

[Jo]

I've been using Loopster and Pacemaker - 2 free plugins for Winamp. I'll have to check out my Audigy software (can that do loops too Frankie?)

But here are the links to the plugins
Loopmaster (http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=30749)- where you can create start and stop points for looping mp3s
Pacemaker (http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=12689)- which will slow down the tempo, or raise and lower the pitch of the song.

Anyways, they work ok, I've had a few problems with getting Loopmaster to start/end exactly where I want it, as it seems that if you then change the speed your start/end points change. But it still works pretty well, and it's free too.

As Frankie said.... "Oooo if only I'd had this when I was 15". :o

[jas]

Soundforge Sonic Foundry does this too - with wav's, mp3's and wma's.

You can't slow down a song too much though; it gets all distorted.

I wish I had had this when Jo and Frankie were 15.

-John

[Nightfly]

, "ooo - if I had had this when I was 15..." LOL

Amen to that ... mind you .. since I got it a couple of months ago its been getting heavy usage :D

[Phil Bennett]

Soundforge Sonic Foundry does this too - with wav's, mp3's and wma's.

You can't slow down a song too much though; it gets all distorted.

I wish I had had this when Jo and Frankie were 15.

-John
Jas

Any chance of advising where is this facility located.

Nice piece of software this one, handy when it's tuned to Eb, just raise the pitch by a semitone, and Robert's your Fathers brother.

Cheers

Phil