Software for Slowing Music Down?

Nitefly · 24 Jul 2016 at 22:35

Deliberately in the music forum where I suspect fellow musicians will lurk and know the answer.

I'm trying to slow down various pieces of music and the usual software culprits either alter the pitch or only slow down by, say, 50%, rather than in selectable percentage increments.

I did download what appears to be a wonderful piece of kit called chronotron that worked, but it beeps at you unless you buy the premium version - UGH. Just for how annoying the beeping was, no.

Any good free solutions? Cheers

TheVoice · 24 Jul 2016 at 22:40

Audacity.

Pigeon_Killer · 24 Jul 2016 at 22:42

Have you tried Audacity?

robfosters · 24 Jul 2016 at 22:44

I suggest Audacity.

SexyGreyFox · 24 Jul 2016 at 22:46

Impulse Player, you can also change the key.
This is very useful when my band come round because we play in Eb.
We also do a couple of songs we've dropped by 3 notes and it's really easy to play along with Impulse.

El_Watcher · 25 Jul 2016 at 17:55

Get Audacity, and use the PaulStretch plugin, which slows without changing pitch. Many of the 800 times slower remixes on Youtube are made with it.

Like these

There are two settings to affect the stretch, but yu can play about with it to learn what works.

SexyGreyFox · 25 Jul 2016 at 18:46

You really don't need it.
I used to use Soundforge which is the Daddy of Audio editing software but Impulse does it without messing about.

krooton · 25 Jul 2016 at 20:07

SexyGreyFox [Deceased];29827791 said:
You really don't need it.
I used to use Soundforge which is the Daddy of Audio editing software but Impulse does it without messing about.

Sound forge is ace, but soooo pricey.

Nitefly · 26 Jul 2016 at 18:31

Thanks all will check them out