The Slow Downer

[dulcillini]

Good Evening:

Anyone here have any experience with this product. "The Amazing Slow Downer" or some similar name ? Seems like it could be a useful tool to break down songs you are trying to learn.

Thanks

[Amanda Gregg]

I have it for iPhone, and it is WONDERFUL, best app I have ever purchased, period. I have learned so much by using it as part of my practice routine.

[Shrtbull]

I have it on my desktop. Works good. I have a app called Anytune Pro, on my IPad. They both work great. The Anytune is cheaper on price.

[bigskygirl]

Yes I find it very helpful when learning new tunes.

[Misty Stanley-Jones]

The only downside to having it on the iPhone is you have to have the music in your iTunes library. It won't work with music stored in iCloud and streamed, and it won't work with external music apps like Spotify.

[bratsche]

I just slow down music with Audacity, if I need to. (I don't own or use, or anticipate ever owning/using, anything that's called an iThisorthat, but just have a regular old-fashioned desktop and a bunch of mp3 music files, or else I've converted videos from YouTube to mp3 format first.)

bratsche

[Dick Dery]

This is another "slow downer" type software (for MS-Windows):

http://bestpractice.sourceforge.net/

Although not specifically designed as slow-down software, Musescore can also be used:

http://musescore.org/en/download

[neil argonaut]

I've tried it and love it but am just waiting for them to make a Linux compatible version.

[Richard.g.hampton]

First class piece of kit.....

[Dick Dery]

I've tried it and love it but am just waiting for them to make a Linux compatible version.

Debian Linux has package called playitslowly.

[Jim Garber]

I use ASD a lot. I can also export them to a disc as a slow-downed versions to play along with.

[Mark Wilson]

I tried both Amazing Slowdowner and Transcribe! demos side by side for a week before purchasing Transcribe!. They do the same things and the sound quality is very similar.

For my use, I prefered the look, ease of use, and features of Transcribe over Amazing Slowdowner by a fair bit. For me, TASD seemed less friendly to use after using transcribe.

Fantastic tools which ever one you chose imo.

just this week, I listened to Grismans two leads on Hot Corn Cold Corn(Grisman/Garcia) and, as best I could, tried to duplicate by what I heard realtime.

Then I looped at 70% and was surprised how the ear can be fooled. For me right now, slowing down and looping is the only way to hear the truth.

[Amanda Gregg]

For a first application, apply whichever slow-downer software you choose to the intro of Monroe's Roanoke. Your head will explode.

[JonZ]

Linux?! No iThisorthat?!

Talk about old timey!

[DvS]

I find it invaluable on my iphone to use with 'captured' tunes. My work-around to the non-streaming issue is to:
1) record the tune via iphone or similar;
2) email to self;
3) open the attached recording in ASD app and
4) Voila, tune now in app!
Snagged a nice Bush rendition of Brilliancy off the web this way, working it now
With much pleasure.
Hope this helps.
D in B'more

[MikeyG]

Anyone here have any experience with this product. "The Amazing Slow Downer" or some similar name ? Seems like it could be a useful tool to break down songs you are trying to learn.

Thanks

I've been using ASD since 1997. It is useful for MANY tasks besides slowing down tunes. You can create loops of difficult passages; you can create playlists and add comments. You can SAVE those loops (as .wav or .mp3). I've used ASD to divide tracks when digitizing cassettes or vinyl. Best of all, it allows you to adjust the pitch of an audio file to match your instrument's tuning.

It is constantly being improved by the programmer, Rolf Nilson. I consider ASD to be THE MOST USEFUL program I have on my computers.

MikeyG

[SWS]

I am curious, when a tune is slowed down, what is the affect on the audio. Does it have a "cartoonish" sound.


Thanks

[Amanda Gregg]

I am curious, when a tune is slowed down, what is the affect on the audio. Does it have a "cartoonish" sound.

No, at least in the case of the Amazing Slow-Downer, which is why such programs are great. They slow it down while maintaining the original pitch.

[Mark Wilson]

At 50% or 70% there is almost no change or affect at all. Especially with dry recordings. Pitch remains same. One of modern software marvels imo. Below 40% there starts to be a increasing warble/distortion depending on the amount of reverb etc.

I don't find the need to go below 70% often. I'll hit 50% when it gets tricky. Too slow and the feel for the timing gets lost on me.

edit: ok I need a speed-upper typing software

[Amanda Gregg]

edit: ok I need a speed-upper typing software

Nah, your reply is better

[foldedpath]

I like the free Audacity software for this, because many of the tunes I want to learn by ear are in the middle of multi-tune sets (typical for Irish trad), or long session recordings. With Audacity I can isolate just the part I want, strip out the extra bits, slow it down (or not, depending on what I need), and then export a new MP3.

I know some of the other "slowdown" software apps might include partial looping functions, I just prefer this working method of exporting a file.

[Misty Stanley-Jones]

Audacity is great and it works on Linux. But it's too complex for lots of people. If you are already using Linux then audacity should do fine. . I have been entrenched in the Linux world for 20 years.

[lloving]

Have a look at Anytune or Anytune Pro. Accesses tunes from online as well your local iTunes.

[Ben Cooper]

I use the ASD app regularly! Great app!!

[whaler]

I use ASD regularly on my iPhone to memorize Irish tunes. Slow down if necessary, and loop while exercise walking.

Transcribe: a lot of people use, but I just never learned the interface well enough.

But AnyTune on the iPad is my most valued piece of music software, bar none. As a Bassplayer, it has saved my butt when memorizing sets worth of material for a Latin band. Great visualization of the song with an audio amplitude display. Lets you place named marks at points in the song. When the band stumbles at the "mambo" during rehearsal, I quickly find it, turn on looping, slow it down, and change key if necessary, and the band can hear what's done on the original recording. Very good user interface.

....Lyle