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

[Michael Shiloh]

Sounds way cool. If no one is available to teach this, perhaps we can 
form a study group? Scripting music and audio effects fascinates me.

On 07/19/2010 03:29 PM, Vicente Malave wrote:
> 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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