[Noisebridge-discuss] "Half-rap" music and "Grabbing a record"

[Vicente Malave]

You can do *anything* at the Nyquist prompt: I took a course on it a
few years ago and wrote some music with it, I think its a brilliant
dialect of lisp, and I'd be interested in working on scripting if
anyone is interested.

Is it similar to the effect directly after Neo takes the pill in the
first matrix? That extreme time stretching done with soundhack, which
is a late 90s bit of mac freeware. I think you can actually draw a
curve for the software to follow as it slows down: it was pretty
extreme-sounding.

Vicente Malave



On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:21 PM, lee worden <wonder at riseup.net> wrote:
>
>>   3. There is an effect in many songs that sounds
>>      like grabbing a playing record to slow it
>>      down to a stop.
>>      Is there a name for this effect?
>>      Any hints on how to achieve this, say in
>>      Audacity, Ableton Live, etc. ?
>
> Audacity's "Sliding Time Scale/Pitch Shift" can do something like it, but
> it doesn't seem to go to low enough pitch to sound right.  Also, on my
> laptop this effect crashes on short selections, so I had to slow down the
> piece of audio I was playing with to make it long enough, then do the
> effect and speed it up again.
>
> It looks like it could be done using the "Nyquist prompt" in Audacity -
> this would require learning something about Nyquist scripting, which is a
> sort of lisp for sound processing.  I looked at the docs for a minute and
> it looks like Nyquist's "sound-warp" function is a good starting point.
>
> lw
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