Re: [Harp-L] Slowing Down Software

[Ben Bouman <fitgo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Most of my students use Transribe.

I've started using this after Carlos de Junco showed me this program. He made some better to handle key commands and it is really a very good tool for any musician...!!
Feel free to contact me off-list for more info on the key-commands.



Ben Bouman
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Op 28 sep 2010, om 11:33 heeft Aongus Mac Cana het volgende geschreven:

> No one has mentioned "Transcribe" from an outfit called (I think) 7th
> String?
> I bought this software some time ago on Rick Epping's recommendation. It was
> not outrageously expensive.
> Transcribe can lower the speed without  changing pitch, but it will also
> change the key if required, which can be handy if you don't have a ship's
> trunk full of harps in different keys, or if you have difficulty with twenty
> fifth position. 
> I found that the software did evereything it was supposed to, although
> finding and changing to the key I required was a bit of a challenge. Like
> everything else unfortunately it needs practice.
> Some one else has remarked that Windows Media Player has a slowing down
> feature. I was amazed when a "classmate" told me about this a year or two
> ago. I checked and it is there alright.
> Another non-computer slow down device which some one was kind enough to tell
> me about is the humble cassette dictating machine. Many of these recorders
> have a two speed feature - one of the speeds being half the other. When you
> record at the high speed and play back at the lower you lower the pitch by
> one octave but retain the same key.
> If all this is too much for you there are (for Irish trad at least) a number
> of slowed down learner CDs available. Dusty Banjos in Galway are one source
> and I found another one on the internet (I forget where) from which I was
> able to download a few slowed down tunes.
> Beannachtai
> Aongus Mac Cana