Music Software 4 Beat Matchin' The Chimes

[mr. sparkle]

I got the Yamanote chimes into my phone and that's very cool and all. But what would be cooler? Chimes clicking along to a techno beat, of course!

My early experiments make me want to continue to refine my idea. So I am using what I have avaiable to me: GarageBand

I can bring the AIFF files of the Yamanote "chimes" into GarageBand, but there doesn't appear to be an easy way to slow down or speed up the chimes to match a given beat.

Wondering what you beat junkies use to match samples to beats:
Digital Performer?
ProTools?
Logic?

[Charles]

Propellerhead Reason is great at manipulating loops, and it even has hooks to GarageBand. But it's really expensive.

A more affordable shareware app to retime audio clips is "The Amazing Slowdowner," it can retime clips without altering the pitch. It's cheap, but it would probably be a bit harder to use, you'd have to guesstimate the slowdown factor, export a clip, and test it in GB, over and over. Maybe you could loop GB while you play TAS in another window, listening to both audio tracks while you adjust the speed in TAS.

[sparkzilla]

The easiest way is to use ACID.

http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/products/showproduct.asp?pid=1005

[GuyJean]

I got the Yamanote chimes into my phone and that's very cool and all. But what would be cooler? Chimes clicking along to a techno beat, of course!

I can bring the AIFF files of the Yamanote "chimes" into GarageBand, but there doesn't appear to be an easy way to slow down or speed up the chimes to match a given beat.

Are you able to change the 'tempo' of the imported chimes like you can with the default loops provided in GB?

If so, I'd just play the base techno beat in the background with Quicktime while I adjust the tempo of each chime in GB. Once they sound synched, I'd export the 'tempo adjusted chimes', then bring everything back into GB and fuck around.. I'd adjust one chime at a time..

Not sure if tempo manipulation is what you're looking for though.. Keep in mind I've never done this.. But it seems like something my simple mind could work with.

GJ

[mr. sparkle]

The easiest way is to use ACID.

http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/products/showproduct.asp?pid=1005

Hmm. Might be a good addition for my krap PC. Wonder if it would run it? But I'd rather do it all on my Mac. Charles is prob'ly right in that I should use Propellerhead Reason. Wish I could afford it! Amazing Slower Downer has a trial version, but only plays the first couple of seconds. I need the full version, which is around $50. And yes, the workflow would SUCK.

Might be a better idea to put the $50 towards a copy of Reason, which I should probably have anyway.

Ableton Live is pretty cool. Any of you cool cats mess around with that? I still can't quite get it to do what I want to. I'll keep messing with it and I'll let ya'll know what I turn out.

P.S. Kick Ass!: I finally got my fifth beer bottle.