Winamp Plug-in Details

Winamp Staff Review

Cool timestretching/pitch control dsp plugin
Chronotron allows for you to change the key and tempo of a song independent of one another. So you can change the tempo of a song without affecting the pitch, and vice versa. You can come up with some nifty sounding efx with this plug. The interface is clear and easy to use.

User Reviews

works ok but no need to buy it

Jan. 6th, 2008

Get Procrustes. Just as good and really free. The author has big ones to charge $25 or whatever after the trial period.
- John DeFranco

Best sound, crashes at high slowdown

Sep. 29th, 2007

This is the best sounding of the tempo shifting plugins. It costs $25 beyond a 15 day trial. The author also has a better version on his website, and a pro version that sounds better at high slowdown. It works well for all of the tested files FLAC, MP3, MP4, and wave. Unfortunately this plugin suffers from the dreaded crash when changing tracks. It only seems to happen when the tempo is extremely slowed down. The plugin seems to be stable outside of the red region. It is too bad that it can't be turned off. The crashing problem is new with 5.3xx versions of Winamp. The Pro version may be free of transient smearing unlike 3.5. If it is behind the Winamp window, it annoyingly pops up when the cursor is over the tempo control. It kills the spectrum display when slowing down FLAC files, but that is a common problem in other plugins. The next nearest competitor in sound is Procrustes, and it crashes on FLAC files, and won't slowdown mono files.
- John Clement

NOT FREE AFTER 15 DAYS

Sep. 28th, 2007

Ok, so I downloaded this product to change the tempo as I am a dancer & it is a helpful tool in training.I was so excitited this worked sooooooo well.But....... 15 days after I dowloaded this so called "Free Plug-in" they say it's only a free trial & you have to pay for it!That should have been explained upong the downloading process. It tool me ages to figure out how to get the damn thing onto my laptop, & now it's not even working. I'm pissed off, & feel that it was false advertising!
- Melissa Driessen

A post for you

Apr. 21st, 2007

I tried it, what it does is really handy and funny at the same time, but when it is used during random switching the numbers who start normally silent give a tick! Unfortunately this tick is currently when i stop this plug-in too, random ticks in the music where there should not be ticks...For the rest it is very good. Worth supporting i think so that Ianier can find the little bugs....
- Av Andel

What a disappointment.

Nov. 15th, 2005

I thought this plugin was frickin' awesome... until I saw that you have to buy the thing after 15 days. It's the Internet, for freedom's sake; you simply can't charge for something like this and expect people to be stupid enough to pay for it, because there are literally millions of bored coders out there making plugins exactly like this (and even better probably) and don't charge a dime. While I don't care for the country, that's Capitolism at it's finest.
- deleted Costanzo

Some Ups and Downs

Oct. 28th, 2005

Works well, smooth sounding, easy to use. Handles extreme settings like a champ, even with extremely low tempo and extremely high key. (I love messing with those.)Down side is that it kind of merges the center channel into the left and right channels in a surroundish manner. Another is that it softens hard sounds and insrtuments, most notably on drums and high pitch cymbols. And I'm not sure what it is, but it sounds like the higher frequencies get a little muffled, probably due to the "smoothing" effect. But good plug-in otherwise.
- Dennis Goends

Not Quite There

Jul. 30th, 2005

This thing does work and it's about as usable as you can get. Definitely fun for changing the texture of electronic music.All that said, it has issues. For something with such a high price, it should be harder to crash. Oddly, it seems to work better on some files than others. Some get distorted; this may not be fixable.The UI is fine, although if it's going to have a nice black look, it would be nice to have the window border, etc. match that look -- again the pricetag is a factor there.I'm not going to register this. I think I'll go find an open-source plugin that does the same thing (if one exists). At least that way I can help stop any crashes! :-)
- Annalee Call

NOT !!

Mar. 17th, 2005

I rated this Plug-In 0 stars but my rating doesn't show.For me this Pug-In is completely worthless.When I pitch up my tracks the kick looses his power, at zero it's ok, but when pitched up..So UNinstalled it immediatly again.NO THANKS !!
- Eric Zwieten

Great an inespensive!!!

Jan. 29th, 2005

I just downloaded the program and is great. $26.00 is cheaper than paying $10.00 a track to get the pitch you want. Thanks for Chronotron!
- Luis Nazario

$26?

Jan. 16th, 2005

I wish there had been some information beforehand that this program costs $26...more than the Winamp cost! Works great but expensive. Jeez.
- Virginia Kozlowski

chronotron

Dec. 16th, 2004

he don't wurk ?
- anton vermeulen

the simple things

Nov. 25th, 2004

yeah so i got this so i wouldnt have the retune my guitar so much when im learning something.but then i noticed that a lot of old favorites that im just sick of actually listening to soune pretty good if the tempo is cranked up 110%-125%.. huh. damn those licks sound good played fast! the rythme textures change, little stuff you didnt notice before jumps out..and if you drop the key one or two notches (100-200 cents), those screechy rock'n'rollers suddenly sould like, well, men. axel rose, robert plant, heck all or em. the girls sound nice and smokey too.. mmm.. grrr!so when its my turn to soundtrack for the office, i twiddle the chronotron on a playlist of classics.. hey who's that? zeppelin. yeah but whos that playing it? zeppelin..
- dan kloke

make this a full freeware

Sep. 14th, 2004

makes you control pitch and tempo independently. its a good plug-in, very good indeed if speaking in a musicians point of view. a great tool for musicians and aspiring ones. this is a great help/tool in capturing those fast licks and fast runs without missing any note! :) i would probably give this a FULL 5 star if only its for free. damn mine's about to expire.. :(
- bim balanza

Great for Karaoke files

Sep. 4th, 2004

This is excellent for using with Karaoke tracks. It would be a nice feature to have it go by semitones instead of cents but either way is fine. Great Plugin!
- Windle L

Works well but...

Jul. 21st, 2004

... it's not freeware and at AUD$37 is not easily affordable *sigh*. And sometimes it just gives me an error message, something to do with a floating point error (probably because I selected it before playing a song and so it has nothing to process, hence a floating point error). Would be nice if it would stop doing that, since there is nothing that the user can do about it except start the song. And it doesn't advise you to do that in the error message, so that makes it pointless.Also, would be nice if it could show markers so that the user knows when the pitch has been shifted a full key, though I suspect that a full tone is every 100 cents and a semitone is 50.
- Jeffrey Teo

I'm not that bright...

Jul. 21st, 2004

Apologies to Ianier. Apparently 100cents is a semi tone and if I were more in tune with music I would have known that. So this plugin provides a very precise way of controlling pitch independantly of tempo since the read out on the right side of the window shows the exact number of cents you have shifted.One more star for that. :)
- Jeffrey Teo

This thing

Feb. 13th, 2004

Is really works, This was just what i need! Donwload it and try it!Greetzz,Sven
- Sven de_Hoog

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