David Haggett wrote: >On Thursday 16 June 2005 07:11, Kevin Cosgrove wrote: > > >>On one of my systems, with a Hoontech card in it, I can use snd to >>change playback speed without changing pitch. On another system >>containing a Soundblaster, snd won't change the pitch. Is this an >>expected behavior? >> >> > >I'm by no means an expert, so take this with a liberal amount of salt, but I >read somewhere that the creative chipset is locked at a 48000Hz sample rates, >and all other rates are produced by resampling in software. > >Could it be that snd maintains the pitch by changing to a lower/higher >sample-rate in hardware? > >BTW - thanks for the pointer. I've been looking for something that will allow >me to slow down guitar solos enough for me to rip them off, this might be the >one :) > > Hi David: I use Snd for transcribing difficult solos for my students. I recommend Audacity to them (because they're all using Windows) and they've responded very favorably to it too. The price is right, try 'em both. :) Btw, I use either an SBLive or an M-Audio card with Snd, I've never had problems with the time-stretching (which is really what you want instead of pitch-shifting). Best, dp
