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

[lee worden]

I think I would come for that.  I would love to be better at playing with 
audio.  Nyquist looks great.

> 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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