> Hi! > > Alle 16:07, sabato 18 marzo 2006, Josh Lawrence ha scritto: >> Hello all, >> >> I'm in the process of trying to transcribe some solos off of a >> Yellowjackets album. It's an up-tempo blues number, and some (well, >> most) of the notes are going by way too fast. I would like to find >> some software to slow the tune down so I can hear the lines a little >> better. > > If I understand correctly, you have a track and you need to slow it down > without altering the pitch. If so, you can use Audacity > http://audacity.sourceforge.net and apply such effect to your track. Here's an old school idea: I used a '56 Garrard turntable for transcribing (Yellowjackets, "Samurai Samba" about 1985). Why? Because it had 16 rpm as a speed, which drops you to almost exactly an octave lower, but half the speed. You can do this with a DAW by playing back at 1/2 sample rate, and it's much easier to get the notes, plus the artifacts of pitchshifting are non-existant. (You don't mind the info loss -- you're listening for content, not sound quality. When you go back to speed, everything seems to make so much more sense. Cheers, Phil M (In reverse, this is how the Earth, Wind, & Fire horns were recorded -- an octave low at 1/2 speed -- to make them seem so tight!) -- Dept. of Mathematics, 342 Machray Hall U. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2 Office: 446 Machray Hall, 204-474-6470 http://www.rephil.org/ phil at rephil dot org
