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I use a Mac and bought SloMo for $10. It was less expensive than the Amazing Slowdowner and does exactly what I need. Slow it down, easily loop sections, and adjust the pitch if I need to tune a song down or up to a different key. It’s supposed to be able to filter instruments out but I don’t use that feature.
Joe
The sight of a touch, or the scent of a sound,
Or the strength of an Oak with roots deep in the ground.
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Anytune was one of the first music slowdowners, and is still perhaps the most popular. It’s used by musicians, music teachers, music producers. I use it for practice every day, and even just to play music from my library. It does all the necessary things, like change tempo, change pitch, make multiple loop areas, isolate a single instrument like a lead guitar. Their support is awesome. If you have a question, they email you a response within 24 hours. It’s in every app store.
Sunjamr Steve
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Anytune was one of the first music slowdowners, and is still perhaps the most popular. It’s used by musicians, music teachers, music producers. I use it for practice every day, and even just to play music from my library. It does all the necessary things, like change tempo, change pitch, make multiple loop areas, isolate a single instrument like a lead guitar. Their support is awesome. If you have a question, they email you a response within 24 hours. It’s in every app store.
Anytune looks like a great choice but its not available for Windows PCs so…..
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Oh, bummer. It does work on Android phones and tablets, though. Another option that came onto the internet with huge fanfare was a slow downer for PCs called “Riffstation”. It worked well, and could even work out the chords of a song. The company was subsequently bought out by Fender and the price went up to $35. Now, apparently, Fender shut down the Riffstation web page, so you would have to download a copy from some dodgy third party software seller.
If I had a PC, I might go for Amazing Slow Downer, which is more user-friendly that many other options.
Sunjamr Steve
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Oh, bummer. It does work on Android phones and tablets, though. Another option that came onto the internet with huge fanfare was a slow downer for PCs called “Riffstation”. It worked well, and could even work out the chords of a song. The company was subsequently bought out by Fender and the price went up to $35. Now, apparently, Fender shut down the Riffstation web page, so you would have to download a copy from some dodgy third party software seller.
If I had a PC, I might go for Amazing Slow Downer, which is more user-friendly that many other options.
I have Riff Station, sound quality when isolating parts isn’t the greatest. I does everything else really well. I hate the way that Fender and other corporations swallow up small companies and kill their products – I know, its just business but Riff Station had a lot of potential. I chatted with the developer a couple of times and had he been able to continue, Riff Station would have been a game changer
Amazing Slow Downer is in my sights – also plan to check out some of the AI based platforms as well. Moises seems very promising, going to look at the free demo and determine if would be worth the $39 annual subscription
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You might want to try VLC first.
Simple, effective, multi-platform and free.Paul
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There is a free app for your phone called Moises that will do that. I bought an app for my Mac called RipX from hitnmix.com which costs about $100. It can separate the instruments in stems, change the tempo, edit notes, and a lot more that I don’t use it for.
Joe
The sight of a touch, or the scent of a sound,
Or the strength of an Oak with roots deep in the ground.
--Graeme Edge -
I was watching one of the on line lessons and the person said that he used some program that let him divide the song into tracks and eliminate things one by one – has anyone ever heard of something like this???
Joe mentioned Moises, which is an AI program that will separate tracks like you mentioned
It’s a free download to try but $39 annually to continue using
There are several AI programs available that will do the sameI’ve been using Riff Station and VLC for some time – those are good for slowing things down but those programs won’t separate the tracks very well so I may check out one of the AI programs at some point
Many thanks to all who responded
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On my Mac, I am a huge fan of Transcribe! I’ve been using it for many years. I find it very easy to use. Super simple to select a section of music and get it to loop perfectly at any tempo with zero hiccups, meaning that I can let the section loop over and over again and play along and the loop is always in rhythm with no glitches. That, to me, is the number one requirement of any slow downer.
When I’ve tried ASD on my iPad, I found it difficult to make a clean loop. But I know it has tons of fans, so it could well be user error on my part.
Recently I’ve also been using the slow-down transcription features in GuitarPro8. That’s also a great way to go if you are interested in writing down the music that you are studying.
I’ve used Transcribe! in conjunction with Moises a few times also. Use Moises to get an isolated guitar track and then load it into Transcibe! for further study.
The tools we have at our disposal these days are amazing.
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On my Mac, I am a huge fan of Transcribe! I’ve been using it for many years. I find it very easy to use. Super simple to select a section of music and get it to loop perfectly at any tempo with zero hiccups, meaning that I can let the section loop over and over again and play along and the loop is always in rhythm with no glitches. That, to me, is the number one requirement of any slow downer.
When I’ve tried ASD on my iPad, I found it difficult to make a clean loop. But I know it has tons of fans, so it could well be user error on my part.
Recently I’ve also been using the slow-down transcription features in GuitarPro8. That’s also a great way to go if you are interested in writing down the music that you are studying.
I’ve used Transcribe! in conjunction with Moises a few times also. Use Moises to get an isolated guitar track and then load it into Transcibe! for further study.
The tools we have at our disposal these days are amazing.
I think that Moises will be the one that I go with at some point because I’m looking for a program to provide those isolated parts of a song.
Rhythm is the main thing for guitar players because its been estimated that 85-90% of what we play will be rhythm – and who wants to just strum chords???
Listen to jazz great Herb Ellis play behind a singer – he played some of the most melodic harmonies that I’ve heard. Hendrix was as impressive as a rhythm player as he was a lead player,many other examples could be listed.
And it takes a program that can isolate those parts – I have Riff Station and the VLC Player that I can use to playback.I posted this almost 8 yrs ago about setting some features of the VLC Player
that many aren’t aware are available
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