OT: Software to transpose and burn mp3 files?

[Max Smith]

I need to learn some classic rock tunes for some upcoming gigs and I
plan to tune a Telecaster down a half step for the gigs and I'd like
to transpose the mp3s I downloaded from Amazon down a half step and
them burn them to CD so I can practice along with them with the lower
tuned guitar. So I need to find software (Windows) that can transpose
and then burn mp3s, or a program that can output the transposed file
to a format I can then burn to CD with iTunes or Media Player.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

The Other Max

[Greger Hoel]

Max Smith skrev:

Transcribe!

[Jeremey Poparad]

One option:

1. Winamp with the Pacemaker plugin (both free at winamp.com).
Pacemaker can adjust the pitch and/or tempo of an mp3.

2. Something like mp3mymp3, which is basically a sound recorder, but
can take it's source from anything on your computer. The "what you
hear" option records what's coming out of your speakers. Set the mp3
in Winamp to the desired transposition, and then hit record while
playing the file.

3. Burn to CD

[paulmitc...@gmail.com]

The Amazing Slow Downer. Audacity will do this for free but the
quality isn't in the same ballpark.

[Nil]

On 29 Feb 2008, Jeremey Poparad <pop...@gmail.com> wrote in
rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz:

> 1. Winamp with the Pacemaker plugin (both free at winamp.com).
> Pacemaker can adjust the pitch and/or tempo of an mp3.

Does this plugin still work for you? It stopped working for me with a
recent update of Winamp. I've taken to using another free MP3 player,
Foobar2000, because it has its own speed/pitch adjustment plugin.

I believe the free WAV editor Audacity can do pitch correction, and it
can open and save to MP3s.

[dunlop212]

I have an old copy of cooledit that allows you to slow down while
retaining pitch. I just used it the other day to get a lick I always
wanted to learn:

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tab-tips-theory-technique/99175-move-over-speed-lick.html

There are some free copies of cooledit floating around on the
Internet, but I don't know if the free ones have that feature.

[Chickenhead]

Reaper. http://www.cockos.com/reaper/

It might be a little bit overkill for what you want to accomplish, but it
certainly do it. BTW, AFAIK, written by the same dewd whom originally wrote
Winamp.

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[Jeremey Poparad]

On Feb 29, 11:09 pm, Nil <rednoise+n...@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote:
> On 29 Feb 2008, Jeremey Poparad <popa...@gmail.com> wrote in

I haven't updated Winamp in quite a long time, so yes, it does still
work. ;-)

[Nil]

On 02 Mar 2008, Jeremey Poparad <pop...@gmail.com> wrote in
rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz:

> I haven't updated Winamp in quite a long time, so yes, it does
> still work. ;-)

Smart guy! I would have learned my lesson by now, were it not for those
rocks in my head.

[jazz1148]

I do this quite often with Amazing Slow Downer. It cost about $50 but
is well worth it. It won't burn CD's but will allow you to open your
MP3 file and then adjust the pitch to match your guitar, either up or
down. Of course you get the looping and slow down capabilities as
well.

[Max Smith]

On Feb 29, 8:50 pm, Greger Hoel <no...@spammers.crap> wrote:
>
> Transcribe!

I tried Transcribe and it worked wonderfully - it even produced a
reference tone so I could fine-tune the track by ear - output to WAV
and burn - thanks!

The Other Max

[Martunes]

> I do this quite often with Amazing Slow Downer. It cost about $50 but
> is well worth it. It won't burn CD's but will allow you to open your
> MP3 file and then adjust the pitch to match your guitar, either up or
> down. Of course you get the looping and slow down capabilities as
> well.

Amazing Slow Downer is really good - I've used the winamp pace maker
plugin but it can't touch the former. It also has loads of features
that makes lifting riffs really easy. I often slow down a passage for
my students - then save this short section as an mp3 file and email
(or burn) it to them to practice along with.

But really, it seems more obvious to leave them in their original
pitch to practice with and just tune your guitar down at rehearsal. Or
am I missing something?

[paulmitc...@gmail.com]

Depends on what your needs are. I recently made up a CD of 'Out Of
Nowhere' for a group of my students - versions by Bean, Bird, Raney,
Farlow, Aebersold play-along etc. The Hawkins is in Ab rather than G
so I repitched it for convenience sake. The ASD retains ahem,
'amazing' quality even when radically altered in tempo or pitch.

Paul M Brown