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

[Michael Shiloh]

Some tutorials:

http://audacity-forum.de/download/edgar/nyquist/nyquist-doc/examples/examples.htm

On 07/19/2010 03:42 PM, lee worden wrote:
> 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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