Amazing Slower Downer is amazing. One of the best programs for music
Amazing Slower Downer is amazing. One of the best programs for music
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On my android phone, which is my preferred tool for the job, I use ASD and Spotify. In Spotify, create a playlist named something like "Songs to Transcribe" and add any songs or albums I want to work on. Note, you must download the music, so Spotify Premium is required. In ASD app, open "Lists" > "My Spotify Playlists" > find the appropriate playlist > choose the tune > et voilà!
On my macbook/laptop, I like to use YouTube with the following features. Download a Chrome app called Looper, it let's you loop any section of a YT video right on the page. Then use the regular YT speed setting but select "Custom" which let's you adjust incrementally by .05%. And there you go, its just like ASD for free on your computer with any YT video, which is basically the entire catalog of all recorded music.
I also use keyboard shortcuts to control the video while doing the above:
I would only add that for the pitch change part of the procedure, one can use Audacity instead of Amazing Slow Downer or Transcribe.
I've used Audacity a few times on old field recordings and festival jam session recordings etc, where often no one was tuned to standard A440 (common situation before digital tuners). Audacity's "Change pitch without changing tempo" (one of several speed/tempo/pitch variants it offers) lets me bring the recording up to standard A440 so I can more easily play along with the recording (if I'm trying to learn or re-learn the tune), without having to bother retuning all my instruments. This is handy if you've got a whole playlist of previously-non-A440 tunes (some high, some low) that you want to practice along with, so you don't have to retune your instrument between each and every song/tune.
I'm using a slightly older version of Audacity, but presumably recent versions have similar functionality.
Audacity does take some trial-and-error to achieve the exact perfectly-in-tune-with-whatever-you're-trying-to-match pitch/key you want, but it's doable if you have the patience. IMO the trick to getting a good match, is to first "preview" the desired effect on only a small portion (several seconds) of the tune, make adjustments as needed, keep previewing it until you're satisfied with it, then make a note of the settings, hit cancel, select the entire tune, and reopen the dialog box and use those same settings to apply to the entire tune.
Audacity has one advantage in that it's free open-source software (or at least it was last time I checked), so there's that. I was thinking there are versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux, although I'm too lazy to look it up right now to verify.
Anybody try Song Surgeon?
I'm in the process of setting up a new windows 10 laptop (dragged kicking and screaming from win7), and have used FireFox for years. Mark, there are about a zillion extensions called "Video Downloader" for Firefox . Do you know who makes the one you use? Are you on Windows 10? Scratching my head trying to decide how to choose.
Big Slowdowner fan here, for many years!
Too many instruments...too little time
“Kicking and screaming”, I hear you; my last laptop purchase I search “new old stock” until I could find a suitable new one that shipped with win7, so no I’m not on Windows 10. I’d imagine that video download programs have multiplied over the years. I’ve been a long time user of the one named simply “video DownloadHelper” - they’ve been around a long time, and are always quick to keep their extension compatible with latest FireFox updates.
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