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What's the current state of the slowdowning art?

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 5:42 pm
by s1m0n
What free slowdowning software are people using these days?

Re: What's the current state of the slowdowning art?

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:20 pm
by I.D.10-t
For common tunes I'll want to try out, I'll go into Audacity, change the tempo and maybe the key, and save the recording. It is useful for playing along with a whistle tutor on a Bb fife and other things.

Re: What's the current state of the slowdowning art?

Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:01 am
by megapop
Ditto. Just to add, for a quick on-the-fly slowdown I'd simply use VLC, which also allows to playback and slow down streams like YT clips... but Audacity is far and away the best IMO.

Re: What's the current state of the slowdowning art?

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 5:32 am
by Tor
When using Chromium (and presumably also Chrome) for youtube clips then there'll be an option to slow down right there in YT. I don't see that option when using Firefox. Don't know if that has to do with flash vs. html5 or what.

Re: What's the current state of the slowdowning art?

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 9:25 am
by megapop
Tor wrote:When using Chromium (and presumably also Chrome) for youtube clips then there'll be an option to slow down right there in YT.
Nice!

Re: What's the current state of the slowdowning art?

Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2015 4:22 pm
by CactusWren
Amazing slowdowner is pristine, even at extreme settings. Has to be heard to believe it. He has a free, lite version, but youll need to upgrade for usability. $15.

Re: What's the current state of the slowdowning art?

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 11:15 pm
by popsnorkle
I use a Rockboxed iPod classic. I can choose how slow I want it and it also has A-B repeat, so I can play just a part of a tune.

Re: What's the current state of the slowdowning art?

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 12:34 pm
by Steve Bliven
I've been using Transcribe!. Not free but does the slowing down, sets up loops, adjust keys, provides "best guess" for notes and chords on demand, accepts a wide range of input formats. I've found it very useful.

Best wishes.

Steve

Re: What's the current state of the slowdowning art?

Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 6:43 am
by vermichou
I use (and created) www.youloop.io, allowing to slow down and loop YouTube videos. Also, if you create a loop for the A for instance, other users can re-use the loops created. For instance:

http://www.youloop.io/loop/fbi-11w-king ... mp4_38192/

It's free and on http://www.youloop.io.

Re: What's the current state of the slowdowning art?

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2017 9:47 am
by colomon
Steve Bliven wrote:I've been using Transcribe!. Not free but does the slowing down, sets up loops, adjust keys, provides "best guess" for notes and chords on demand, accepts a wide range of input formats. I've found it very useful.
Yes, over the years I've used Audacity and VLC and other free tools for this, but on Gerry Strong's recommendation I tried Transcribe! and was very happy to spend money on it. It really puts all the tools you'd like for puzzling out recordings right in front of you and makes them easy to use.

Re: What's the current state of the slowdowning art?

Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2017 12:53 am
by an seanduine
A little late, but would add that the App VexWarp is available for Chromium. Does a good job slowing down to 40 per cent. Shifts keys by semitones as well.

Bob

Re: What's the current state of the slowdowning art?

Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 2:38 pm
by thaneydesign
Amazing Slow-Downer all the way. <3

Re: What's the current state of the slowdowning art?

Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2019 8:09 am
by Eagach
[Thread revival - Mod]

A thumbs up for youloop from me, interesting watchining the video slowed down as well for a bit of a clue on those baffling triplets that zip by...

Re: What's the current state of the slowdowning art?

Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 10:46 am
by highland-piper
Before long this thread will be four years old ;-)

I find Sonic Visualizer to be really good. It has less artifacts than anything else I've been able to compare it to. Plus it has all the different visualization layers and harmonic analyzers.

It's original purpose was linguistics, but it supports plugins so there are are a number of musical plugins (chord, beat, etc).

Re: What's the current state of the slowdowning art?

Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2019 4:53 am
by Kade1301
Probably not state of the art as my computers are old, but they still work: Play it slowly on Ubuntu (Linux) and Music Speed Changer on Android. Both free and simple to use.