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Andi



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Freeware or cheap software to slow down and loop music for learning
      #784924 - 05/11/09 11:35 AM
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Can any one recommend a freeware or cheap software package to slow-down and loop music files for learning and practice. I have used Amazing Slow Downer which I quite liked but I'm reeling a bit at the $49 ticket price. I have an eval copy of Mtrax which is rather more functional but does a lot of clever stuff that I don't need. My old copy of Transkriber doesn't load under 64 Bit W7.

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A.

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Re: Freeware or cheap software to slow down and loop music for learning new [Re: Andi]
      #784934 - 05/11/09 11:53 AM
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What DAW do you use? Most DAWs can do this kind of thing now.

But I also believe you can do this in Windows Media Player these days, though it's not something I've tried.

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Re: Freeware or cheap software to slow down and loop music for learning new [Re: The Elf]
      #784986 - 05/11/09 02:44 PM
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Hi Elf

I use C5 and yes it does all of this stuff, I just don't really want to be in DAW mode when I should be in MUSIC mode.

It'll do as a stopgap though. Good one.

A.

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Re: Freeware or cheap software to slow down and loop music for learning new [Re: Andi]
      #784988 - 05/11/09 02:50 PM
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BestPractice: http://www.xs4all.nl/~mp2004/bp/

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Re: Freeware or cheap software to slow down and loop music for learning new [Re: Andi]
      #784992 - 05/11/09 02:53 PM
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Winamp does it as well. May require a plugin downloading (i'm not sure off hand) but it does do it.

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Re: Freeware or cheap software to slow down and loop music for learning new [Re: Andi]
      #785221 - 06/11/09 12:49 PM
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Thanks folks.

Best Practice looks OK - I'll see how I get on with it.

Roni who make the Amasing Slow Downer did produce plugins for Winamp, but they work only up to V2 (I think I'm running V5) so no go there unfortunately.

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