![]() ![]() The speed slider has quite a large range, and allows users to increase speed above normal if desired. The application has multiple useful features, including the option to set start and end points for looping this allows users to listen to the most challenging part of a song over and over again until they master it. We liked that the Amazing Slow Downer could handle digital audio files and CDs we tried it with both and it worked fine. Amazing Slow Downer's controls are represented by a series of sliders and drop-down menus. The program's interface is plain, but it's well organized and intuitive. This innovative tool allows users to change the speed of audio playback using a simple slider, and it's a great tool for anyone trying to learn to play along with their favorite songs. We wish we'd had Amazing Slow Downer for Windows then. because they weren't meant to do what ASD was meant to do.We remember trying to play along with our favorite songs when we were learning to play bass guitar and struggling, because the songs moved faster than our neophyte fingers could. Try transcribing "Koko" or "Shaw Nuff" by Charlie Parker (if you know who he is) and you'll quickly realize that Quicktime, and Amadeus don't cut it. It's supposed to help you hear sax solo at various tempos. This is NOT a tool to make cool effects or to edit out a sax solo. Quicktime to pull the audio from a movie, Amadeus to edit out dialog and keep only the score, and ASD to transcribe the score easily.ĪSD is a musicians tool made to do musicians things. If anything you should have all three of these pieces of software. In actuality I shouldn't be comparing Quicktime with Amadeus with ASD because these three apps are in three different categories. ASD is NOT multitrack audio editor because it's not supposed to be. It specifically says "Amadeus Pro is a powerful multitrack audio editor.". Nowhere on the website does it say that Amadeus is great for transcribing. Good luck since the slider is small and jumps in huge increments.Īmadeus is NOT a TRANSCRIBING tool. In ASD, you can speed it up bit by bit without having to render it. If you don't know what I'm talking about pick up an instrument and try practicing a section looping in quicktime. As it loops back to the start point you can adjust it so it's in complete time so you don't break the flow of the pulse. This means that you can loop a section and nudge the start and end points just right so you can practice a section along with it in perfect time. You can also practice along a section of a tune by looping a section at frame accurate resolution. (An art that most musicians don't do alot of these days. ![]() ![]() It's just not as easy to loop, have presets and so on. Please, guys, PLEASE come into the 21st century! The folks at Roni are geniuses in pitch manipulation and complete retards otherwise. The mind reels at how much more money they would make with a decent interface, and if they'd sell ASD as an AU and/or VST plug-in. Someone at Roni must really love it though because they've had the same horrible turd of an interface now for years. For this, they have taken quite a bit of criticism over the years, and rightfully so. I honestly can't imagine how it could be much worse. Of all the programs I've used, the sound quality on ASD is one of the best.įrom a user interface standpoint, ASD is nothing short of an attack on everything that is good and decent in the world. MSWFUJOWDFFYC I'm impressed by the quality with which ASD is able to manipulate pitch and speed. I am thinking to try and buy Transcribe! which is a very Programmer but so so on as a developper of a users friendly interface. Musicians do not waste your time with a person who is a brilliant I am myself a computer expert on Mac (via PDP11 and Unix), a bass-trombonist, Jazz and Salsa arranger in my spare time. I tried ASD on a friend's computer and I am not amused. ![]()
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