Is there a plugin that will slow down playback?

[bobby yarrow]

I'm looking to do the old trick of playing back slow while tracking so that the singer can sing above his range. Then, of course, when the mix is played back at full speed, the singer will be hitting the notes.

I'm kind of surprised I can't find any way to do it in SX3 directly, but so far I can't.

I wonder if there's a plugin like TapeStop, but that slows playback to a set speed rather than just slowly stopping it.

Any thoughts on the matter?

[Hink]

I'm looking to do the old trick of playing back slow while tracking so that the singer can sing above his range. Then, of course, when the mix is played back at full speed, the singer will be hitting the notes.

I'm kind of surprised I can't find any way to do it in SX3 directly, but so far I can't.

I wonder if there's a plugin like TapeStop, but that slows playback to a set speed rather than just slowly stopping it.

Any thoughts on the matter?

just tune everything down a half step...

[metamorphosis]

Re: Is there a plugin that will slow down playback?

Yeah, it's called a mac- you plug it in, and suddenly, everything goes much more slowly than it used to.[/quote]

[mandolarian]

Badaboom!

[Mr. Tunes]

i back that joke!

the only solution i could possibly think of is buying a used tascam which i see on craigslist every week for peanuts.

[mandolarian]

Or you do it old skool. Just stick your hand inside the hard drive and slow the platter down a bit.

[kmonkey]

Look for TBT VST plugins. I think i tryed one in past. You can get slowdown like on turntable if that is what you mean.

Just put it on master bus and there you go

[scamme]

kmonkey meant this:
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/826.html
or you can always automate bpm of the sequenser, i think it's double click on bpm itself in SX.

[VeXKoN]

uhh snort some ketamine. mmmmm, yeah totally tasteless

[Andywanders]

Can you change the sample rate on your sequencer..?

If it's set at 48k and you change it to 44k it should sound lower (or is it the other way round..?).

Anyway, I remember hearing about this trick a while ago but I can't remember the details, but it can be done.

[musicmaster]

What about Amazing Slow Downer?
http://www.ronimusic.com/

Musicmaster

[annode]

I use "native instruments"Kontakt sampler to do exactly that.
It has a setting in it called "time machine"...it then gives you a control knob for making the audio file your playing in it go faster or slower.
It also gives you a knob to increase or decrease the pitch.
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In SX3;
If you change the sample rate from say 44.1 to 48 the audio tracks will slow down...but i`m not sure if the pitch decreases or not.I think it does.
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In media player;
You can also do it this way;
My windows media player has a "change speed without changing pitch"option in it.

I believe it came with the media player ver 10 update.
If not ask me...and I may have the plugin for it to send you.
(it only works with mp3`s)at least doent work with .wav.
Pick up one of those free/or demo recorder programs that record anything you hear coming from your sound card.
Use that to record the new slowed down version from media player...it will produce a wave file from it ,then import to SX3.

[heeb]

I'm looking to do the old trick of playing back slow while tracking so that the singer can sing above his range. Then, of course, when the mix is played back at full speed, the singer will be hitting the notes.

I'm kind of surprised I can't find any way to do it in SX3 directly, but so far I can't.

I wonder if there's a plugin like TapeStop, but that slows playback to a set speed rather than just slowly stopping it.

Any thoughts on the matter?

Why not:

- Make a quick mixdown to a temporary new track;
- Mute all others temporarily;
- Pitch shift and (as a result) stretch/shrink the temporary track to desired pitch (using host itself, or CoolEdit, or Sound Forge, or whatever thing can do the trick), by resampling; in CoolEdit this is called "Stretch", putting "stretching mode" to "Resample (preserves neither)";
- You now have a temp track that is both lower and slower, or faster and higher;
- Sing tracks to this pitch shifted temp track!
- Now do the reverse pitch shifting and stretching/shrinking to the recorded sung tracks; they should theoretically be in sync again with your project; the resampling will not audibly hurt the sound quality of your track (as opposed to "real" pitch shifting or stretching, which *will* hurt quality);
- Mute temp track, unmute rest of project, and check result;
- When satisfied, delete temp track!

Done!

Edit: I guess the above described method is closest to the "old" tried method of slowing down/speeding up a multitrack tape recorder, and just recording at that speed, then returning to normal speed for playback.

[respirator]

What about Amazing Slow Downer?
http://www.ronimusic.com/

Musicmaster

That's the funniest vst name I've heard in some time

[annode]

Here is EZtime stretch.
It`s not sold anymore,but works fine.
It will import a .wav file.Then tell it what bpm it is,(approximately),then tell it what bpm you want to process it to...and it will create a new .wav file at the new bpm.
Try this with a short wav file first to get an idea of how long it will take...then if you choose to,process the wav your wanting to process for your singer.
http://home.comcast.net/~newdabranck/mu ... tretch.zip
Zip opens as .exe and info text.

PS: this processor app will retain most of the sound quality of the original...unlike realtime applications.