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General => Open Discussion => Topic started by: PhiloB on August 13, 2013, 04:32:41 PM

Title: Favorite Slow Downer iApp?
Post by: PhiloB on August 13, 2013, 04:32:41 PM
Downloaded Anytune free.  The $14.99 version seems very feature rich but I hesitate to recommend a $15 app to my students.  Anybody have any input or alternatives?
Title: Re: Favorite Slow Downer iApp?
Post by: hammerheadmusicman on August 13, 2013, 05:11:00 PM
Get the free version, and wait, because every now again they have a sale on the 'in app' purchases. The Anytune 'all bells and whistles' version, is much, much better! The sound quality is well worth the £12 or whatever it is!

George
Title: Re: Favorite Slow Downer iApp?
Post by: jimilee on August 13, 2013, 05:14:38 PM
That looks really cool. I use amplitube. You can import songs and slow them down and play along.
Title: Re: Favorite Slow Downer iApp?
Post by: AllenM on August 13, 2013, 09:51:16 PM
I have Anytune ProPlus and love it. It's the only slow-down type app / program I have found that actually works and the investment was well worth it. On my iPad it is great. Shows my library and remembers the settings for each song so I don't have to reset everything when ever  I want to go back and work on the song. And the slow down plus looping song parts is perfect for learning parts.

AllenM
Title: Re: Favorite Slow Downer iApp?
Post by: hammerheadmusicman on August 13, 2013, 10:04:32 PM
Yeah, it's so good i think i may have paid for it on my iphone and ipad. I use transcribe on my macbook, but it's not as accurate in terms of sound quality.

George
Title: Re: Favorite Slow Downer iApp?
Post by: murdog47 on August 13, 2013, 10:13:55 PM
I'm using "Capo". A little pricey but works great! User friendly and you can loop specific sections. Also you can change the pitch of the song you are listening to....ala up a half step for SRV stuff so you can keep your geeetar in standard tuning.
Title: Re: Favorite Slow Downer iApp?
Post by: PhiloB on August 13, 2013, 11:48:09 PM
Great feedback thanks.  Think ill have to pay the $15 so I can recommend with confidence to my students;)
Title: Re: Favorite Slow Downer iApp?
Post by: culturejam on August 14, 2013, 03:19:03 AM
I use the free version of AnyTune, and it does what I need just fine. Granted, my needs are somewhat simplistic.
Title: Re: Favorite Slow Downer iApp?
Post by: alanp on August 14, 2013, 05:58:02 AM
... did anyone else see the subject and think this was a thread about Sunn O))), Crowbar, and Earth?
Title: Re: Favorite Slow Downer iApp?
Post by: kothoma on August 14, 2013, 06:06:11 AM
BTW anyone on Android?
Title: Re: Favorite Slow Downer iApp?
Post by: PhiloB on August 16, 2013, 03:57:04 AM
I tested the free version of Anytune with the intro guitar lick to David Bowie's Fame and the 'Basic' audio was so bad you couldn't hear most of the lick. If I demoed the high quality of the same lick it sounded fine.  Guess it depends on the song as to how useful the free basic setting is.  FYI
Title: Re: Favorite Slow Downer iApp?
Post by: hammerheadmusicman on August 16, 2013, 07:04:12 AM
A lot of it also depends on the bit rate of the track
Title: Re: Favorite Slow Downer iApp?
Post by: PhiloB on August 16, 2013, 04:05:41 PM
Good point.  Didn't consider that.  This was a file from YouTube.  I'll try one of my own mp3's.
Title: Re: Favorite Slow Downer iApp?
Post by: kothoma on August 16, 2013, 04:11:22 PM
I always use uncompressed audio for phase vocoder time stretching.
Remember mp3 is already run through a phase vocoder once, throwing out stuff you could need in slo mo.
I have no idea what youtube does to audio. Compressed bit crushing? ;) Stay away. ;D
Title: Re: Favorite Slow Downer iApp?
Post by: PhiloB on August 16, 2013, 04:14:40 PM
I was just trying out the 'import for YouTube' function.  What you're saying makes a lot of sense though. I usually use AAC when importing from a CD.  Using MP3 as a generic term:)