Is there a plugin that will slow down playback?

[bobby yarrow]

Thanks everybody!

I think eztime_stretch is the answer. The samplerate thing would work, except that I'm at 44.1 now so there's nowhere to go but up -- and that makes things faster. SX3's timestretch would also work, except that goes by % and not by BPM. This results in some very hard math: expand by 104%, and then to get back to normal you need to compress by 97.873828299511% or whatever. A brighter mind than mine could find a math relationship for stretching and shrinking by workable numbers, but I can't think of how to approach that problem.

Will report how EZTime-stretch works out.

[bobby yarrow]

Oops. Too bad. EZTime-stretch is pitch-accurate, so it won't work for what I want.

Everybody understands what I'm trying to do, right? It's an old trick: slow down the tape machine playback while tracking a vocal, so the whole song's a little lower. Then when you playback at full speed, the singer's 'hitting' the high notes they couldn't get otherwise.

Seems much simpler than tapestop or pitch-accurate time-stretch, but I can't figure out how to do it . . .

[multree]

Tape Stop

[bobby yarrow]

TapeStop is a great plugin, but it stops the playback completely. You can set the rate at which it stops, but can't set it to slow down and play at a slower rate, right?

[haydxn]

your best bet is to just open the backing in a sound editor and setting the sample rate lower. i very much doubt you'll find a plugin that you can just plonk on the end of a track to slow everything down for long (it will need to keep remembering what it has heard to keep it coming out slower, which will gradually need more and more memory).

just load it up in a wave editor and make yourself a slower copy. set the sample rate to a lower one, then if your host doesn't allow you to import files of different sample rates, resample your slowed copy to the original sample rate (this time preserving duration). it's a sure-fire method.

[Mr. Tunes]

oh i forgot about goldwave's Doppler. might not do it all but a fun toy nonetheless

[multree]

TapeStop is a great plugin, but it stops the playback completely. You can set the rate at which it stops, but can't set it to slow down and play at a slower rate, right?

well some people don't read thread titles... I read only thread titles and not the thread

sorry

[vtx]

Tape Stop

I like that thing but could never figure out how to render the effect

[multree]

Tape Stop

I like that thing but could never figure out how to render the effect

TapeIt

or automation

[Mr. Tunes]

Tape Stop

I like that thing but could never figure out how to render the effect

me too my fellow ontarian. i figured that something like Tobybear's ChannelGrabber is essential for grabbing stuff like that effect as well as other random ones like Livecut

[donkey tugger]

Everybody understands what I'm trying to do, right? It's an old trick: slow down the tape machine playback while tracking a vocal, so the whole song's a little lower. Then when you playback at full speed, the singer's 'hitting' the high notes they couldn't get otherwise.

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Aye, used to do it 'back in the ,ahem, days'. Surely it would be easier to do it by pitch-shifting though; use a temporary copy of the backing track shifted down a tone or whatever, do the singing, then shift the singing up by the the same interval using a pitch shifter that preserves length, missus. (tried it using the 'elastique' algo in FL, worked ok). Of course you'll get the 'but it makes me sound like a girl' effect without using some manner of format shifting (e.g melodyne), but that was always the case with slowing down the tape.

[androidlove]

i don't know if you can find pv transpose anymore, but i used it once to give my guitar extra frets. i automated it to make a note higher. there's mda detune, but i've heard it has problems with automation

[shamann]

i don't know if you can find pv transpose anymore, but i used it once to give my guitar extra frets.

You can still get it here:

http://www.bath.ac.uk/~masrwd/pvplugs.html

[bobby yarrow]

Tape Stop

I like that thing but could never figure out how to render the effect

TapeIt

or automation

That's just what I was going to say. I've done both . . . tho I try not use tapestop too often, as I suspect it's going to sound really cheesey in about 5 years.

[heeb]

Everybody understands what I'm trying to do, right? It's an old trick: slow down the tape machine playback while tracking a vocal, so the whole song's a little lower. Then when you playback at full speed, the singer's 'hitting' the high notes they couldn't get otherwise.

I hate to repeat myself, but this tape-thing, emulated digitally, is exactly what I described in my earlier post...

Please tell me if I should describe it in an easier way...