Filed under: Audio, Utilities, Macintosh, Education
Learn how to play your favorite songs with Capo
by Jay Hathaway Apr 22nd 2009 at 9:00AM
Capo has a lot of other neat tricks that make learning a song easier. One of the best features is looping a selected part of the song, so you can focus in on the bits you're having trouble with. Playback speed and pitch are adjustable, and you can drop handy markers for verses, choruses and the bridge, so you don't have to scroll through the song to find the part you're looking for. Sure, it's a tool that's designed to do one thing, but it does that one thing extremely well.
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Tom J said 9:55AM on 4-22-2009
Anything similar available for windows?
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Demo said 1:46PM on 4-22-2009
Yes, I also am curious if there is program like this for Windows - seems very handy.
ohsnizzle said 3:17PM on 4-22-2009
windows users can use audacity. not as easy, but it will do the trick.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
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Ian said 10:43AM on 4-23-2009
Better yet, use Best Practice, an open source time stretching player. Not as good looking but easy and free: http://www.xs4all.nl/~mp2004/bp/
Also, there is FineTunes on the mac, witch I personally purchased and am enjoying. It's only $20 and it measures up to capo. IMHO, capo is too expensive even at introductory price of $40...
http://homepage.mac.com/seishu/ssworks/finetunes/finetunes.html
Ian
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Doug said 1:10PM on 4-23-2009
If you're on a Mac, you should just use Vox.
http://www.voxapp.net/
It's free, has support for most codecs, and has support for time stretching. It has a bunch of other great features, and it's good looking. Why pay for something that doesn't do as much?
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