KVR Audio

bharris22 · Post by **bharris22** » Mon Dec 19, 2016 3:31 pm

Hi Everyone,

I am setting up a relatively low-powered Windows 8 tablet for guitar practice purposes, and am trying to find the best (and preferably lowest cost) standalone program to do quality audio stretching for play along purposes (i.e., learning guitar solos). I had been using Capo on my old iPod, but there is no Windows version as far as I know. Can someone please recommend a high-quality program for this purpose? Ideally, I would be able to easily set loop points and adjust the playback speed. I also have FL Studio 12 loaded successfully on here, so if the quality of the audio stretching there (again, just for practice purposes) is good I can just use that.

Thanks!

Functional · Post by **Functional** » Mon Dec 19, 2016 4:31 pm

AFAIK FL Studio uses the same elastique pro algorithms as most other software does, so FL Studio should do just fine for you if you liked the results of Capo.

Jonathan Shepherd · Post by **Jonathan Shepherd** » Mon Dec 19, 2016 4:40 pm

If FL studio doesn't do it, maybe Rubber Band?
http://rubberbandaudio.com/
It's 10 bucks, standalone and sounds pretty good by my ears. It wont do loop points though. Just "check that demo"!

bharris22 · Post by **bharris22** » Mon Dec 19, 2016 4:49 pm

Thanks!!

ericzang · Post by **ericzang** » Tue Dec 20, 2016 12:05 pm

try reaper with its rate knob in the transport.

stevesilk1951 · Post by **stevesilk1951** » Tue Dec 20, 2016 12:18 pm

My advice, get riffstation, absolutely the best practice/learning tool I have EVER used. Worth every penny - think it's around $30. I assume you have something to play your guitar through, even an normal amp? There are several free VST amp sims you can use, if not, and just use SAVIhost to achieve a standalone of it.
Edit: here is the link, you can try the demo first?
https://riffstation.com/

xx JPRacer xx · Post by **xx JPRacer xx** » Thu Dec 22, 2016 5:30 am

http://photosounder.com/spiral/

Allow you to slowdown and also really good visualization to see the notes. Costly though.

TerryW · Post by **TerryW** » Wed Dec 28, 2016 5:56 pm

BestPractice is a free musician's practice tool, to slow down or speed up music, either from an MP3 file or directly from a CD.
http://bestpractice.sourceforge.net/

memyselfandus · Post by **memyselfandus** » Wed Dec 28, 2016 6:05 pm

Here you go
https://www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/overview.html

or Reaper

sellyoursoul · Post by **sellyoursoul** » Wed Dec 28, 2016 6:26 pm

Reaper is really good for practicing. It supports a variety of audio and video formats, has a variety of stretching algorithms for different kinds of sources, has lots of included js plugins that can be useful for things like splitting channels, has some nice looping features, and it allows for setting up custom toolbars (think, a practice toolbar). And it's $60. Oh, and it now has notation, and I have seen some mentions of people doing tablature with it, which I haven't looked into yet.

Best Standalone Audio Stretching Program for Practice?