Category: Guitar Software

Computer programs that slow down audio and/or video files to allow guitarists to learn riffs and solos are a basic tool for anyone who wants to learn to play guitar. So here’s the major players in the music slowdown field:
Slo Mo Director
Slo Mo Director slows down video so you can see and hear what you want to learn. Watching HOW a guitarist plays certainly adds a dimension to hearing WHAT he plays
“Learn at least 3 times faster than normal watching the same video in a completely different way!
The best part about using video as a learning tool is the fact that you can watch as many repetitions as you want. The teacher or instructor in the video never gets bored or tired and will keep repeating the lessons every time you hit the play button.
But quite often in video lessons, particularly music lessons, the action is just a bit too quick - especially a tricky little intricate bit. Wouldn’t it be great if that bit was not only repeated but played back more slowly!
Slow motion video is used in many fields involving learning motor skills - Piano - Dancing - Skating - Snowboarding - Hockey - Martial Arts - Magic Tricks - Saxophone - Guitar.
With software for slowing down video you can rip your existing DVD’s using FREE software that you can download from the internet, save them as .WMV and manipulate them with slow mo software programs.
Likewise you can capture Streaming Videos from Websites using FREE software, save them as .WMV files and open them with software for slowing down video.”
Slo Mo Director
Slowgold
“Do you want to learn how to play the hot licks from any CD, MP3 file, or Wave file? With the World Wide Woodshed’s acclaimed music software, it’s easy! With just a couple of mouse clicks, you’ll be playing along with a loop of any phrase from any CD, MP3 file, or Wave file at any speed, at the original pitch, with great sound quality.
SlowGold offers a ton of additional features (see Product Comparison Table) that the hardware units don’t even begin to offer, including pitch shifting, so that singers can transpose recordings to their own key and players can retune recordings that may not be tuned to concert pitch. And bass players can transpose recordings up by an octave to pop out the bass parts even while they slow them down!
SlowBlast! is for musicians who only need its slowdown features on an occasional basis.
Both programs are available to try for free.”
Read more about Slowgold and Slowblast here.
Twist And Burn
“If you want to practise along with guitar or other musical instrument, it can be helpful to slow down music.
With DJ Twist & Burn dj mixing software, you can easily add a sound, and play it back at any tempo without altering the pitch!
1. Add a sound
2. Right click on the sound and select “Edit BPM/Pitch Settings…”
3. Click “Beat Match”
4. Select a new tempo!
5. Click OK
Play the slowed down music. You can also speed up the music, if you don’t care to play it so slowed down.
You can burn this to an audio CD or render it to an MP3, OGG, WAV or WMA file!
Twist And Burn
Slow Notes is a free music slowdown program which needs a flash player to operate. The program can open .MP3, .WAV and .AIF audio files. The developer is working on adding support for more file types.
Slow Notes
Riffmaster
“Slow down music to a pace you can play without changing the pitch, and our loop feature allows you to play any Riff or phrase over and over! Also the zoom feature allows you to find the phrase you want to work on - right down to the note!
Rip audio directly off a cd and save as mp3 or wav! We’ve all heard that the best guitarists can play by ear, Right?
Here is your chance to catch up!
27 seconds - that’s all it takes to install our program, then load your favorite track, slow it down and start jamming with the best of the best!”
Slow Down Guitar Music!

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If you want to learn to play a guitar for free using nothing but videos downloaded from YouTube and similar sites, you might want to consider a new piece of software which at the moment is available for free on a trial basis.
It’s nice to be able to download videos of your favorite guitar players to watch and learn their licks. The problem is it’s not always so easy to actually see what the guitarist in the video is doing. Yes, you can keep winding it back and replaying the tricky bits, but that doesn’t always yield the insight you’re looking for.
Computer software for slowing down audio files has been available for years, but Slo Mo Director is amazing software that manipulates video so that anyone can learn at least 3 times faster than normal. The idea is that you are able to slow down the bits of video you are having trouble with, and repeat it at a pace you can cope with while you learn.
If you want the full details, there’s a video demo of the software in action and a link to the free trial.

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GuitarFX is a free program that puts electronic guitar effects onto your computer. Bear in mind that some of the effects might be a drain on your computer’s life force, but the program has a visual indicator of how much CPU it’s using. I’m not sure how much support you get from the inventor, but last time I looked there was a Yahoo group you could download effects from.

“You are dreaming about power impressive distortions like Metallica has and natural sounding 10 sec sustain like Santana guitar sings! During XX century guitar players have known one way only - to buy expensive pedals and stompboxes and plug a guitar into a hole in these devices. But times have changed. Today all we have got personal computers (PC). I am sure many guitar players with PC have seen several holes at the back side of their PCs. These holes look very similar to the holes on the effects pedals! So, many of us sometimes think - I have pluged my guitar into effects pedals during last 10 years. But now I would like to try something new. Well, why (at the end) do not try to plug in a guitar into PC? What happens if I put my guitar cable jeck into one of the holes at the back side of my personal computer? The answer is you will get a great guitar sound! Yes, your PC can pumps electric guitar signals, processe it, apply distortion, sustain, wah, chorus, flanger, reverb, delay effects and output result signals on your headphones or speakers. PC does not need an additional equipment to do this. No options necessary! (I am sure your PC has a sound card).
Easy to use, the PC Guitar Effects Software is the first direct interface for guitar, bass or even vocals. Simply plug into your sound card guitar cable and you’re ready to play.
The Guitar Effects Software produce clean and distortion modes, noise gate, reverb, chorus, flanger, delay, digital filters and an 8 and 16 bans EQ features. The clean mode features a pristine clean tone with just enough compression to add punch and clarity without sounding over-squashed. The distortion features over 45dB of screaming gain and sustain with a gain control to tame it down. The distortion also features noise reduction with a variable threshold control to eliminate unwanted noise from noisy pickups and built-in speaker simulator software. The reverb software and built-in software speaker simulation helps give that REAL amp feel through any set of PC speakers. The AUX inputs of a sound card and software level control offer the ability to plug in other external software plug-ins effects and drum machines, keyboards, external mixers, etc.”

http://GuitarFX.Net

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