Re: [slim] Musicians....

2009-07-15 Thread maggior
Howard Passman;440878 Wrote: > SRV is my all time favorite musician :-) Actually, most of what I like > to play along to is more along the lines of Luther Allison, Buddy > Guy...those types of players. You know, guys I can keep up with :-) > > Well, it was just a question that popped in my hea

Re: [slim] Musicians....

2009-07-15 Thread Howard Passman
maggior;440212 Wrote: > Depending on the players you listen to, you may run into this more often > than not. As you probably know, Stevie Ray Vaughn tuned his guitar to > Eb rather than E to compensate for the heavy guage strings he played > with. > > Though a pictch feature wouldn't help with

Re: [slim] Musicians....

2009-07-14 Thread Phil Leigh
Goodsounds;440594 Wrote: > Phil, I think you misunderstood my comment. > > There are many PC programs - Slow Gold is one I use - that offer pitch > or tempo shifting. Each independent of the other. When you use it to > shift the pitch, it does not change the tempo. Your comment insofar as > what

Re: [slim] Musicians....

2009-07-14 Thread Goodsounds
Phil, I think you misunderstood my comment. There are many PC programs - Slow Gold is one I use - that offer pitch or tempo shifting. Each independent of the other. When you use it to shift the pitch, it does not change the tempo. Your comment insofar as what I was talking about was not correct.

Re: [slim] Musicians....

2009-07-14 Thread kolding
Goodsounds;440546 Wrote: > Actually, this comment isn't correct. There are many programs available > that will change pitch, or tempo, independently. So you can slow it down > (to learn it) and keep the same pitch. Or, as Howard described, change > the pitch by some fraction of a tone to compensa

Re: [slim] Musicians....

2009-07-14 Thread Phil Leigh
Goodsounds;440546 Wrote: > Actually, this comment isn't correct. There are many programs available > that will change pitch, or tempo, independently. So you can slow it down > (to learn it) and keep the same pitch. Or, as Howard described, change > the pitch by some fraction of a tone to compensa

Re: [slim] Musicians....

2009-07-14 Thread Goodsounds
Phil Leigh;440281 Wrote: > Of course, unless you do some funky DSP, changing the pitch will also > change the tempo... Actually, this comment isn't correct. There are many programs available that will change pitch, or tempo, independently. So you can slow it down (to learn it) and keep the same

Re: [slim] Musicians....

2009-07-14 Thread Khuli
pfarrell;440279 Wrote: > Khuli wrote: > > Makes sense - but isn't it a lot easier to re-tune your guitar? > > For a Guitar, perhaps. Not feasible with a Trumpet, Piano, Sax, etc. > Indeed, but then Howard was talking about playing along with a guitar. -- Khuli http://www.last.fm/user/khuli

Re: [slim] Musicians....

2009-07-13 Thread Phil Leigh
Of course, unless you do some funky DSP, changing the pitch will also change the tempo... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB3 (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom ful

Re: [slim] Musicians....

2009-07-13 Thread Pat Farrell
Khuli wrote: > Makes sense - but isn't it a lot easier to re-tune your guitar? For a Guitar, perhaps. Not feasible with a Trumpet, Piano, Sax, etc. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://l

Re: [slim] Musicians....

2009-07-13 Thread Dogberry2
I play guitar too, and I understand Howard's point. But (no disrespect intended, Howard) I don't think such a feature would be worth putting development effort into. There are plenty of other things to keep the SB engineering team busy, and sidetracking them with developing stuff that would be, I

Re: [slim] Musicians....

2009-07-13 Thread maggior
Howard Passman;440155 Wrote: > MOst of the time it's fine, but when playing a mix you do run across > some music that isn't tuned exactly to standard. > > Howard Depending on the players you listen to, you may run into this more often than not. As you probably know, Stevie Ray Vaughn tuned his

Re: [slim] Musicians....

2009-07-13 Thread funkstar
cblock;440176 Wrote: > I think it was a hardware feature of the d/a converter chips used in > that model, so they just made a control available. When they switched to > a better platform for the newer models, the feature was no longer built > in. Presumably for recent products to do it would requ

Re: [slim] Musicians....

2009-07-13 Thread cblock
I think it was a hardware feature of the d/a converter chips used in that model, so they just made a control available. When they switched to a better platform for the newer models, the feature was no longer built in. Presumably for recent products to do it would require a server software based im

Re: [slim] Musicians....

2009-07-13 Thread Howard Passman
cblock;440167 Wrote: > Not at home, so I can't check this, but I'm fairly sure that my old SB1 > has a pitch function that alters the playback speed of anything going > through it. That would seem to do the trick - and they must be pretty > cheap on Ebay by now! Wow, thanks. I wonder why they

Re: [slim] Musicians....

2009-07-13 Thread cblock
Not at home, so I can't check this, but I'm fairly sure that my old SB1 has a pitch function that alters the playback speed of anything going through it. That would seem to do the trick - and they must be pretty cheap on Ebay by now! -- cblock ---

Re: [slim] Musicians....

2009-07-13 Thread Howard Passman
Khuli;440159 Wrote: > Makes sense - but isn't it a lot easier to re-tune your guitar? > > A bit of a pain if you have a bunch of tracks all with different > pitches maybe. Having 6 guitars all tuned slightly differently might > help - I'm sure Mrs P won't mind ;) > > I still have my turntable

Re: [slim] Musicians....

2009-07-13 Thread Khuli
Howard Passman;440155 Wrote: > Apparently. I don't make lasagna, but I have been playing guitar for > 40+ years. Especially when listening to blues I like to grab my guitar > and play along. MOst of the time it's fine, but when playing a mix you > do run across some music that isn't tuned exactl

Re: [slim] Musicians....

2009-07-13 Thread Howard Passman
Khuli;440154 Wrote: > You have music on your SB that's out of tune? Apparently. I don't make lasagna, but I have been playing guitar for 40+ years. Especially when listening to blues I like to grab my guitar and play along. MOst of the time it's fine, but when playing a mix you do run acros

Re: [slim] Musicians....

2009-07-13 Thread Khuli
Howard Passman;440025 Wrote: > Would anyone else like to see the ability to vary the pitch of the music > from your SB? Maybe up to a 1/4 tone so as to be able to play along or > even use the SB to learn a song. > You have music on your SB that's out of tune? -- Khuli http://www.last.fm

Re: [slim] Musicians....

2009-07-12 Thread Goodsounds
I'm not sure the world needs one more way to alter the pitch of music you want to play along with. What you describe can be easily done now with Wave Input and numerous choices of software. Or, just with that software and played on your PC.. Unless you belong to the Swiss Army Knife SB club, like

[slim] Musicians....

2009-07-12 Thread Howard Passman
Would anyone else like to see the ability to vary the pitch of the music from your SB? Maybe up to a 1/4 tone so as to be able to play along or even use the SB to learn a song. Sorry if this has been asked, but I've never seen it mentioned. Howard -- Howard Passman Can I go home now? --