Re: Accelerate/Decelerate Audio on a Mac?

"J. Simon van der Walt" <j.simon...>

> From: Brian Pylant <bappo@...>
> 
> I have a DOS app (accel.exe, I'm sure some of you have used it before)
> that would accelerate (hence the name) or decelerate an audio track
> across time; I used this to simulate the sound of an analog tape
> machine being put into play from dead stop, or to slow down the audio
> as if the plug was pulled during playback. It's all command line so it
> takes some trial-and-error to get the settings right, but it works
> perfectly for its intent.
> 
> Now that I'm on the Mac I cannot seem to find an equivalent applet (or
> plugin) to accomplish the same task. I can move my audio track(s) back
> to the PC, mod them and then bring them back into Logic but that's a
> bit of a pain.
> 
> Any leads on how to accomplish this in Logic Pro, either with an
> AudioUnit plug or a standalone applet?
> 

The venerable freeware standalone SoundHack has a powerful varispeed
function which will do this rather nicely;

http://www.soundhack.com/

Be sure to glance through the manual, though; SoundHack is a lot more
powerful and useful than it looks...

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J. Simon van der Walt ----- Composer
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