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comment by Complexity

Entirely tangential but this is also awesome:

Edit: but I'll be damned if I can get the ghostly, reverse reverby effect slowing things down with iZotrope. Maybe their algorithms are too good and fail to degrade the audio enough.





kleinbl00  ·  3608 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, come now. That's Paulstretch, an entirely off-line algorithm. It rose to prominence when someone on Reddit discovered that Justin Bieber's "U Smile" becomes a towering 35 minute ambient masterpiece when slowed down by 8X:

It was kindof a big deal

Those who have seen Dredd may recognize that the majority of the movie is nothing but score run through Paulstretch on footage shot on Fantom. That movie doesn't exist without Reddit.

Complexity  ·  3608 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I remember the various superslow versions of popular songs. My favourite, the Donna Summer I Feel Real stretch, was the soundtrack to a screenplay I was working on last year.

I guess Paulstretch is my man. Maybe I can compile it for Mac/Linux and fiddle.

no-cheating  ·  3600 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Speaking for slow I had a lot of fun listening to reversed version of Bob Dylan's "Desolation Row". Some people in the comments were hearing a lot of different things in the lyrics.

kleinbl00  ·  3608 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Do, please. It runs in Mac but it's a command-line utility. Makes working with Max feel like playing a guitar.