5 Jan
2009
5 Jan
'09
5:38 a.m.
Joseph Sheedy wrote:
I'm looking for a tool with which to slow down
recordings so I can
more easily transcribe melodies. Up to now I've been importing the
audio into Ardour and using the time stretch tool to create a slower
copy of the tracks. It's not easy to try different speeds like this
though. Sometimes I set the playback speed wheel to 50% to hear it at
half speed down an octave, but that's not great either. I know
there are some shareware tools out there designed for this, such as
http://www.practice-perfect.com/transcribe.html. What do you like to use?
I use Audacity for my own practice, and I recommend it to my students
(they're all on Windows, Audacity is cross-platform). The Change Tempo
and Change Pitch functions are wonderful, I use them frequently during
lessons here.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
It's in most distros these days, so check your repo for an installable
package.
Best,
dp