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Winamp Staff Review

You can get some nifty effects out of this one...
I had some fun just loading vocal track mp3's and messing around with the stretch... great little tool for computer music producers and good food for your sampler as well. I think it would be nice to jazz up the interface a bit and also to add some more efx to it... sort of turn it into a mini Winamp multi efx processor. Not sure how much appeal this will have to the average Winamp listener... but, I can personally find much use for it. -dg

User Reviews

Bad - not usable

Sep. 29th, 2007

I installed it for slow down music. For the first minute it worked, but then the quality went bad. Finally Winamp crashed.
- Klaus Klapperon

Poor sound, but works as advertised

Sep. 29th, 2007

The plugin has poor sound especially with MP4 files. It may be acceptable for MP3, or wave files. Its main virtue is that it works and does not crash Winamp. It also does not work at all with FLAC files. The same people who created this plugin also market a high quality slow down program. It is too bad that they never ported the better sound to the Winamp plugin.
- John Clement

title of what?

Jan. 30th, 2006

I tried several plugins that perform this same function, including \"Arnab\'s DSPs\" (which I believe is listed on this site as \"Fourier Pitch Tempo Control\"), and this one works far better than all of them.
- Oliver Klozoff

title of what?

Jan. 28th, 2006

I tried several plugins that perform this same function, including \"Arnab\'s DSPs\" (which I believe is listed on this site as \"Fourier Pitch Tempo Control\"), and this one works far better than all of them.
- Oliver Klozoff

Musician paradise

May. 24th, 2005

If you're a musician trying to figure out a tricky cover tune, or if the song you want to play along with is in a (slightly) different key or even out of tune, this plugin is a life saver. If you need even slower speed or more pitch change, see the author's Amazing Slow Downer app at www.ronimusic.com. I'm not related in any way to this plugin or product. I'm just one very happy user/customer.
- Johnny Rock

Garbage

Apr. 7th, 2005

It doesn't do anything, save your time.
- adam muir

Awesome Plug In for Guitarists...but...

Mar. 17th, 2004

It's an awesome tool for guitarists who want to learn songs that are too fast at normal speeds. I find the best way to learn any song is by learning to play it real slow at first and gradually increase your speed. And this plug-in does just that. The pitch shifter is cool when you don't want to down-tune your guitar...you can just down-tune the song! A cool upgrade I'd like to see is a wider range on both sides. The audio quality is the best I've seen yet, but could still improve when the song is slowed to it's max.
- Daemon Tate

GREAT!!!

Mar. 1st, 2004

This does exactly what it says, and in a pretty cool way. It's fun. Try it!
- The Great C Gerlein

great for slow machines

Sep. 19th, 2003

I use it on a rusty P200 and it works. Pace maker used to eat up all processor time but slowmedown does fine, even in stereo mode. OK, the sound is somewhat crunchy sometimes, but thats the matter of pitching, but it's great to learn to play along songs. Great job Roni!
- Rob Low

Excellent quality

Sep. 9th, 2003

When I'm learning tunes from MP3s, I don't want to have retune my guitar a 1/4 step (especially on older recordings when they used to tweak the master tapes) for every other song. This plug-in literally makes my life easier. It sounds better than Pacemaker to me, but both are stable and functional.
- Johnny Million

4 for longevity's sake

Mar. 15th, 2003

Hey, I've been using this plug for a few years now. When I first started using it I could slow the tempo by 100%, then it got to be that I would occasionally get artifacts at certain levels PLUS I could only go to 70% slower before the plug locked winamp up... which was ok with me. Now, and read on afterwards, now I can once again get the full range but I have CONSTANT artifacts at any level. The funny thing is that I didn't install a new version, just reinstalled the same ol' version... I suppose most of the problems come from the plug not being able to handle me upgrading winamp (now at 2.81). I could be wrong, but anyways, some folk say "this has artifacts or this doesn't have artifacts" but really it might be something more like your computer setup or winamp version etc. If this doesn't work for you try Pacemaker. Also, Ronnie has a MUCH more in depth standalone program for tempo and pitch control at his homepage (of this plug author), plus several other apps. They cost money tho and again are standalone... I got it but I REALLY would have the standalone be usable as a PLUG for winamp RONNIE!!!! Who wants to stop winamp and have to open another program to do what could be done in one program? Not me.Still, the standalone is nice, but now that it isn't working for me I am finally going to check out the new pacemaker beta (available through that authors homepage)... laters
- Ranger Lacy

Cooll

Mar. 1st, 2003

This thing is awesome. Does exactly what it says it does. And my reason for using it is I play guitar, and there are certain parts in songs that are just too fast for me to tab out by ear, this thing helps a lot. Thanks!!!
- Felipe Rivera

too limited

Feb. 6th, 2003

It works and has an excellent output sound quality.But it's way too limited !! you can only modify the pitch by 100 cents !!! And there is no option to match the tempo and speed , just like the plugin "pacemaker" does.Answer to the previous reviewer's question:I would use it because a bug in my system makes the sound play 20% too fast, and I can't fix it ( I don't own this computer ). So this plugin would compensate for this problem ... if only it could lower tempo and pitch by 20%.
- Space Dreamer

CPU

May. 2nd, 2001

This one uses more of the CPU than Nullsoft DSP Effects - wich is better than this one.
- Bramley Turner-Jones

It actually is...

Apr. 23rd, 2001

I've personally never seen an FFT stretcher that can work on both tracks in real time without lagging. Good work
- Anthony Williams

Fantastic!

Mar. 29th, 2001

Fantastic!!The best free transcriber tool I found on the net so far.The sound quality is amazing.And it's smallRick Tretzow
- Rolf Nilsson

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