Slowing down vocals
 

I've got a voice sample off a friend who wanted me to make a song round it, just messing around. I want to make the vocals much slower, like when you play a tape slow or a record.
Anyone know of any free software on the net to may be slow the sound down by any chance? I got this cheap mixing software called logic hit kit I can bounce the tracks down into stereo and make into a wav. file, but I can't think of a way to slow this sample down. Any ideas and help much appreciated.

Windows recorder can do this actually, but that's not precise (it's 50% each time)

Man, you should look for any audio editing software on the net, there are lot of cracked or patched or with keygen rar or zip software.

You could try with soundforge. Or Adobe Audition 1.5 (I don't like the v3)

just change the setting from 45 to 33 rpm

haha, one of my friends always asks me to do this with a screaming trees record I got.

Thanks for the help already everyone, I'll check all the suggestions out.

Sound recorder, go to "slow down".

Adobe audition, go to time stretch/pitch shift and you can compress the wav file.

There's a plugin for winamp called pacemaker I believe... and it does that, and you can convert the file into a wav.

Cakewalk does with the time shift/pitch shift.

Goldwave does it.

Actually, I'm pretty sure any sound program does that..

i use audacity to record and you can change the speed of it. it's a free program and easy to use.

I rarely like slowed down vocals. They suck the majority of the time and they lack any ''personality'' overall.

I like better downpitched (?) vocals rather than slowed down vocals.

Thanks everyone, the very basic software I got doesn't seem to do it, but it looks like there are plenty of options.

Downpitching? Just lowering the pitch of the vocals, that could work.

I wanted to slow it down mainly because I only got a couple of really small samples to work with, was thinking of stretching them out a bit more.

Weeeeeeeeen.

garage band!!!!!!!!!!!!

ween is one of the worst bands of all time. they might even be worst than rush!

fuckemos have the most ridiculous use of "Downpitched" vocals I think.

Ween rule.

ween have some okay stuff, yeah.

If you want to preserve pitch, it's a bit harder. You can put time stretching to great effect though, like Squarepusher does with drums on some tracks.

Works best if you're Autechre.

Well it's pretty much impossible to slow it down to preserve the pitch completely but adobe audition's "compress wave" does that as best as you can. You're always gonna have some weird harmonics and clipping though if you RELALY slow something down and pitch it up.. but that's cool too.

You can do it by keeping the same length of the music/vocal line, or by stretching the length as long as you like.

if you can find any thing like digital performer or protools maudio version then you can slow down the vocals without changing the pitch using spectral effects, not sure about any other software though

Audacity can do it.


Audacity can do it.


Audacity can do it.

It preserves the pitch of a slowed down sample COMPLETELY? Without any clipping or audio artificats, no loss in quality whatsoever?

Audacity are true scientists then!

On a related subject, I figure this is as good a thread as any to ask...

Has anyone used the granulizer effect in FL Studio? If so, does anyone know other programs or plug-ins that can do that kind of thing? I fucking love that effect.

For anyone who doesn't know, it basically stretches out a sound and chops it into pieces, and you can adjust how spaced out the pieces are, how fast it goes, etc. It's kinda hard to explain, but I've heard that type of thing used on tons of records.

Yep, look up KTGranulator.

While you're at it, get dblue glitch... skidder, scrubby, and some others from a company I called (I believe) destroyfx.. you can find all that stuff on kvraudio I think.

Oh fuck, and it's free? Yes. Thank you. Figures FL would change the name of the effect slightly so I can't find any alternatives.

Yeah it's free. :)

I still can't rep you again, but I definitely owe you for this and Slint still.

Hahaha.

One day... the rep will come.

Audacity is a shitty sounding program though, it retains no aural quality even after one edit. The recording is shit, the metering is shit, the monitoring is shit. It may be able to do lots of things but it does lots of things not very well.

This KTG thing is awesome. Took me a little while to figure it out, but it's really flexible.

I still just ended up with another lame beat after almost an hour of messing with it, but the possibilities are there. I wish I was better at this production thing, but my stuff always turns out terrible. I need to get my ProTools working again.

Yeah, but it's super easy. You nerds obviously didn't read this very carefully:

Yeah but he can just as easily use any of the other programs as we mentioned. SOUND RECORDER would be the easiest!