Software Question - Slowing Down Music

General Music Discussion
#22

Maybe I’m just old, but I started figuring out licks by slowing down LPs and just using cassettes. Slow speed really wasn’t an option and slow speed while maintaining the original pitch wasn’t even a concept that could have been imagined on this planet.

The YouTube playback speed control is a miracle and I just can’t see any purpose in using anything else.

#23

Well. I use TunesKit Spotify Music Converter to download Spotify to MP3 actually. But you can also use it to change the speed of your songs.

#24

Reaper has all the functions you need. It’s a DAW so you can apply some vst ampsims and play to a backing track. You can also put midi tracks to help you find notes. It’s awesome.

#25

For actually transcribing, I really feel like nothing beats soundslice.

#26

I use Spotify and the DRmare Spotify Music Downloader. With them, I can get music from Spotify and then I can manage the Spotify songs as I like, such as the audio format, bit rate, speed, etc. Then I can use Spotify songs anywhere and anytime.

#27

I completely forgot I bought a license for seventhstring’s Transcribe! Software in 2009. I found my key and downloaded the latest version and it looks like its still valid, hah!

I used it a lot back when I was in college and forgot about it, but getting back into again I highly recommend it.

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#28

As for me, converting Spotify as local files is a better choice. I prefer to use Spotify Converter to download and convert Spotify music as desktop MP3 files. Then use Premiere Pro to slow it down.

#29

To slow down Spotify music, I used Transcribe and Spotify Downloader. As Transcribe is limited to local music, I need to use my AudFree Software to download Spotify music and playlists as local files. After that, it’s able to use Transcribe to slow down Spotify music. There is no doubt that Transcribe is a nice slowing-down music app.

#30

Maybe you can try to download Spotify music to your local computer with the help of Spotify Music Downloader. During converting time, you can adjust the sample rate, bit rate, format, channel as you need, and you can also edit the converted Spotify music tracks with ease.

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#32

Man a bunch of brand new members who are super into the Spotify Music Downloader, what are the odds?!?!?

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#33

I used Windows Media Player on my PC to slow down the music. :wink:

  1. Play a file, and then switch to Now Playing mode: click the Switch to Now Playing button
    in the lower-right corner of the Player.
  2. Right-click an open space in the Player (e.g., to the left of the Stop button) , point to
    Enhancements, and then click Play speed settings.
  3. Move the Play Speed slider to the speed at which you want to play the file, or click the Slow,
    Normal, or Fast links.
    Note: Slow Normal and Fast are preset speeds. Normal is 1.0 (default), Slow is 0.5, and Fast is
    1.4.

However, Windows Media Player can only access common format audio like mp3, not Spotify music. :slightly_frowning_face:
Therefore I used AudFun Spotify playlist converter to convert Spotify music to mp3, flac, wav etc.

It helps me a lot. It’s incredibly easy to use. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

#34

To slow down Spotify songs, you can use DRmare Spotify Music Converter. It not only has a format conversion but also has a built-in option to change playback speed for your converted Spotify tracks.
You can slow down or speed up songs on Spotify.

#35

I’m going to add my vote for Transcribe. I can’t recommend it enough. I’ve been using it for probably about 20 years now. It is beyond worth the price. Incredible functionality. You need to be able to download form a source eg Youtube etc. I had a studio for years where I taught and I made every student get Transcribe and Guitar Pro. This is the same combo of apps that Levi Clay uses to transcribe music (I believe he’s transcribed all or most of the music for Troy - don’t quote me on that though because maybe Troy does a lot of that). I’m not sure how it would work with Spotifiy since you need to be able to have a local file. But you can just look for it on Youtube and download that. I use 4k video downloader to download Youtube vids but there are plenty of ways to do that.

#36

Old posty but this got bumped again - who was the software maker? I just did a google search for “Transcribe!” which as you can imagine, especially in this post AI age, was absolutely useless. :rofl:

#37

https://www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/download.html

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#38

Seventh String, as in the link @Riffdiculous posted.

I am a very satified customer.

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#39

Thanks both of you! I’ve been trying to re-learn some of my own solos lately, and while I have the advantage of a pretty good pitch-preserving slowdown in Reaper and the ability to straight up solo the guitar parts, often in raw DI form if for whatever reason that might be more helfpul, it’s still hard work. :rofl: Something like this would make figuring out music I DON’T have the raw tracks to a lot easier.

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#40

I’ve been using Transcribe! for around a decade now - it’s borderline-indispensable for me. lol Well worth the modest price.

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#41

Yeah, $35 is nothing - I’ll grab a copy when I’m not at work.

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#42

Not trying to be contrarian, but as someone who has transcribed a lot, I do think of soundslice as superior to “Transcribe!” for the simple reason that it does most of what Transcribe does but is also a notation program as well - the integration is a huge time saver. I think a lot of folks got very used to using Transcribe and developed a workflow around it, but I think for somebody just starting out, soundslice is a better daily tool.

I also find the layout much cleaner. Everything I need to manage on both the audio end and the notation end is just a keyboard shortcut away, not much visual clutter.

Here is a video where I am using soundslice to transcribe:

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