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Hello there!
I just came across a comment by a chap whose name i don’t remember, who was having a problem with practising tempos (temmpi!). Well, there’s a freeware called Audacity that lets you change the tempo percent by percent. Great for practising and for analysing riffs and licks. I also recently found a backing tracks website by the name of X-Minus Pro, with a voice suppressing tool that works really well (shut up, Jagger!).
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“Anytune” good tip, I’ll take a look at that and “X-minus Pro”.
I’ve been an Audacity user for many years though mostly to record to an mp3 file off the sound card of a pc (the modern equivalent of recording to a cassette off an old record player’s line-out 😀).
I use “Transcribe” for Transcribing, slowing down etc as well as changing the speed of backing tracks without altering pitch. It’s also cheap and does the job though it doesn’t do the separation thing as far as I know but it does have tools to help identify notes and chords. -
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Although I’m not quite sure, I seem to remember trying Transcribe some years back and that the tempo changes were by blocks of 20% or so, at a fee, whereas Audacity does it percent by percent for free (by the way, I’m not a member or friend of the Audacity team). Anyway, the only advantage I can see in using stuff like Transcribe or Anytune is the honor and pleasure to pay for something that one can get for free! As for voice suppressing, Audacity does it quite badly and X-Minus Pro does it pretty well, for what’ I’ve seen thus far.
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Hi Fredo.
Transcribe will do tempo changes percent by percent as well. There’s some quick select buttons to change in blocks like you describe but they’re in addition to a slider that lets you change at the more granular level.
I guess after a career in software development I’ve seen the flip side of free software. Not that it stops me from happily using it and I use it a lot, it’s there to be used. But I don’t mind paying for software either if it does what I want and does it well, especially if its inexpensive, Transcribe is the cost of a couple of cups of coffee and I can afford that 😀
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