Multitrack Recorder: Playback Slow down/Speed up features

[Wana]

Which Multitrack Recorders have recording and playback slow down capacity. I would like to use that feature for rehearsal purposes and to record hard to play phrases in a song, and then to revert the recorded tracks to the original or faster tempo.

 

[mjbphotos]

I've never heard of this option on stand-alone recorders. There is software called the "Amazing Slow Downer" you can use with tracks on your computer.

 

[Jim Lad]

You could probably do it on most DAWs as well as stand alone recorders.
Just stretch the time.

 

[Beemer]

Which Multitrack Recorders have recording and playback slow down capacity. I would like to use that feature for rehearsal purposes and to record hard to play phrases in a song, and then to revert the recorded tracks to the original or faster tempo.

My Zoom H4n can adjust the playback speed of the file 50% to 150% in 5% increments and without changing the pitch.

regards,

Beemer

 

[Wana]

Thanks for your help, I am looking for a MTR whit 12 or 16 Channels similar to the Zoom HD16 which I already have and I would prefer to have that function integrated in a standalone unit instead of using a DAW,

 

[grimtraveller]

I've never heard of this option on stand-alone recorders.

When cassette portastudios were around, this was almost a standard feature, the pitch wheel. The digital standalones have tended to be remiss in including varispeeding. I can't work out why, it's a most wonderful aspect of recording. Not to mention that you learn so much about different keys and transposing. The timestrech facility is a pain on some DAWS for what the OP wants because often you can't strtech that many tracks together so it ends up taking ages and then you have to put them back, which also takes ages ! Whereas with a knob or wheel everything just moves together.

I know for sure that the AKAI DPS range {certainly the 12 and 12i} and the Fostex vf160 have varispeed. Both are discontinued, (the AKAIs are great little movers) but can often be picked up used.

 

[Wana]

I 100% agree with you, recording must be a pleasant and rewarding activity, specially for musicians or those who admire the music and its spontainity , and the "time Strectch"operation makes you feel like looking to a hamburger components with a microscope to find out want is inside of it instead of trying its taste by eating it in a slower "tempo".
I'll will try to find out one of those discontinued machines
Regards