[Dixielandjazz] Re: Transfering 78s -- Correcting the pitch

[Dan Augustine]

     It's true that Sound Studio will allow one to correct the pitch 
of a passage, but doing so also changes the tempo: "Both pitch and 
duration are simultaneously changed, and one quality cannot be 
changed independently of the other."
     Well, there is an application that will allow you to change the 
pitch without changing the tempo (and my understanding of this still 
flits in and mostly out of my attention): the "Amazing Slow Downer" 
(http://www.ronimusic.com/): " The main product is the Amazing Slow 
Downer software, intended for musicians wanting to slow down music 
without changing the pitch. Amazing Slow Downer is available for Mac 
and Windows computers."  I have it and have used it, and it works. 
(It's so reassuring for complex machinery to work without my having 
to believe in them, like heavier-than-air craft and this product.  As 
Arthur C. Clarke once said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is 
indistinguishable from magic.")

     Dan
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>From: BudTuba at aol.com
>Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 10:08:30 EDT
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Transfering 78s >> T'aint Simple But A Fun
>	Challenge
>To: anton.crouch at optusnet.com.au, dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
>
>In a message dated 4/7/2006 10:32:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
>anton.crouch at optusnet.com.au writes:
>
>The  procedure is to record the 78 disc to the computer at 45 rpm and  then
>correct the pitch using an audio editor. I don't know if CoolEdit  and/or
>Audacity have this capacity but some editors certainly do. The  process
>assumes that the signal is coming to the computer pre-amplified and 
>equalised.
><snip>
>Roy (Bud) Taylor

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