Slowing down tape

[Walter Mitty]

Hey all--sorry if this is in the wrong forum but I am interested in slowing down some hard organ licks I have on tape, so I can play along and actually hear the notes. I know they make tape players that slow down the tape to 50% thus dropping the pitch down an octave, but is there any way to do this on my computer. I don't really have the money to buy a tape player right now because they are quite expensive (even used). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[John Sayers]

depends on what software you have on the computer - if you have cakewalk just record it onto a track and then halve the tempo and it will stretch the sound out if you check that option. Or you could put it into soundforge and time stretch it with the time/stretch plugin - or if you have prosoniq's timefactory you could time stretch it in that - all depends on what you've got on your computer
cheers

 

[Walter Mitty]

So I would just load an album track into Cakewalk, for example, and then manipulate it in there? Sounds relatively easy if I had the software

 

[solarchaos]

i know a great way

if u have a cd burner, feed the tape into your computer and burn the song

then goto http://www.ronimusic.com and download the slow speed cd transcriber

put the cd in (make sure u burn it to track one) and u can adjust the speed without changing the pitch, it isnt the best quality in the world but it works

 

[monty]

Download the Cakewalk demo and record the organ tape. Slow it down and record it back to tape. Probably best to check to see if you can use that function before you download, if that is possible. Doesn't one of the other free demo's like Cooledit Pro or N'Tracks do that? Anyone?

[Edited by monty on 08-09-2000 at 22:11]

 

[Walter Mitty]

Monty--thanks for the idea. Can anyone else help?