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Slowing down a record effect...
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:51 am
by grimepoch
That's really the only way I could describe it.
I have and audio track that at one point I'd like to slow it down as if a record belt broke and the record spins to a stop. Basically, shifting the pitch all the way to stop. In DP, I just don't understand how I would do this, and make it sound okay. Any suggestions?
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:06 pm
by nickysnd
Put it on a tape, then pull out the power cord.

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:21 pm
by grimepoch
Hahaha

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:28 pm
by magicd
Here ya go. Soundhack to the rescue. For free!
http://www.soundhack.com/freeware.php
Magic Dave
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:30 pm
by jgest
while I have never gone to a complete stop (since it never crossed my mind yet), I have come close by taking the track in question and opening it in a new file and setting a tempo change in the conductor track to reflect the desired results. I use this quite often and then bounce the track, export and drop back into the original file.....
I don't claim to use the most effective and "highbrow" tecniques that dp can offer, but i get things done in my own rain man kind of way.
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:03 pm
by grimepoch
Dave,
Perfect, and just complicated...I mean feature rich...that I can really use this for a lot of different things. Didn't know this existed!
And thanks to everyone else for the replies.
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:14 pm
by Frodo
Yes, or the cat sat on the turntable.
Someone else asked about this. All I could find was Audacity with their Turntablewarp plugin:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
This link automatically downloads the plugin:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/nyquist ... arp-ms.zip
I haven't tried it, but it's free and might be worth a test run. I haven't figured out quite how to do this successfully or easily with DP just yet.
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:32 pm
by grimepoch
I had downloaded Audacity at one point to do some noise filtering as opposed to Sound Soap. The problem is it crashed A LOT! So I got frustrated and stopped using it.
I think it would have to be something built in to DP to make it work. The plugin format might be tough, although not necessarily impossible. Given the way the Process() loop works in an AU, I'm not sure you'd have access to future data easily for speeding up tracks. (For past you could just save it)
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:16 pm
by chamelion
Duh! OK, I give up. I just know I'm going to feel an absolute turkey, but I'm danged if I can see which of the Soundhack plugs would produce that 'slow down the record' effect. Anyone care to enlighten an old kangaroo wrangler with the limited IQ of one who has not yet had his morning caffeine fix?
Thanx,
Geoff
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:59 pm
by grimepoch
Hahaha, you know what's funny? I did the same thing when I went to the site. You actually want the program called 'SoundHack' from the right side of the columns, not the plugins (although they look intriguing as well).
It's NOT a plugin, it's a stand-alone application.
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:42 pm
by electropoet
I used that effect once...it pretty easy to do with 'live'. You can set a sample to either pitch to the track, or set it to repitch...it acts like a record...if the tempo slow down, so does the sample...best of all...no artifacts.
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:53 pm
by Mr_Clifford
There's an audio-suite plug-in in Pro-Tools called 'vari-fi' which does exactly what you're after. it only has two settings - speed up from nothing or slow down to nothing. I've used it quite a bit and it's great. If you know someone who has Pro Tools LE, they could maybe do it for you and email you the resulting .wav file.
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:02 pm
by Shooshie
Just curious, to any Melodyne users out there... could Melodyne be used to do the same thing? Could you continously wind-down the pitch and the speed simultaneously and simulate a spinning disk slowing down?
Shooshie
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:48 am
by monkey man
Frodo wrote:Someone else asked about this. All I could find was Audacity with their Turntablewarp plugin:
Good call, Frods.
Someone
did ask a couple of weeks ago.
This was my solutiion, much to the delight of all and sundry.
Unless I've missed something crucial here, it should suffice.
The site:
http://airy.andre.online.fr/AU/index.html
The plug download link:
http://airy.andre.online.fr/AU/index.html#speedster
Simply automate the pitch slider.
Enjoy, and don't forget to pat the monkey later...
Oh, and give me a banana!

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:33 am
by chamelion
monkey man wrote:Oh, and give me a banana!

Not at today's Aussie prices, Sunshine!
