# Free slowdown software **URL:** \ **Category:** Irish Flute\ **Created:** [April 18, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/t/free-slowdown-software/46623 "2007-04-18T23:13:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Terry\_McGee](https://chiffandfipplewww.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.chiffandfipple.com/terry_mcgee/32/874_2.png) [@Terry\_McGee](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/u/Terry_McGee)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/t/free-slowdown-software/46623/1 "2007-04-18T23:13:36Z")
Hi all I haven’t tried this out (and probably won’t as I have the Amazing Slow Downer) but our old friend Tatsuaki Koroda (who developed the wonderful Autotuner) has recently come up with a “Tempo and Key changeable MP3, WMA, M4A, WAV player” called S8 Tunes. (I imagine S8 is an abbreviation of Shakuhachi, which means 1 foot 8.) You can download it for free from [http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~tuner/tuner\_e.html](http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~tuner/tuner_e.html). Someone who doesn’t have the ASD might like to road test it and report back? If you haven’t tried out the autotuner lately, you’ll find it much changed (available from same URL). It now features note recognition and can record longer passages to display the pitch in graphical format. Terry ---
**Author:** ![Cork](https://chiffandfipplewww.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Cork](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/u/Cork)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 4:27am UTC](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/t/free-slowdown-software/46623/2 "2007-04-19T04:27:27Z")
Good to know, thank you, but, could any updated, Mac friendly download be available? I can go either way, my having both, here, but prefer Mac on line, frankly. Thanks! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![s1m0n](https://chiffandfipplewww.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.chiffandfipple.com/s1m0n/32/828_2.png) [@s1m0n](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/u/s1m0n)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 6:27am UTC](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/t/free-slowdown-software/46623/3 "2007-04-19T06:27:48Z")
It’s not obvious from the page or the screenshots what the autotuner does. Can you blurb it in a sentence or two? ---
**Author:** ![Terry\_McGee](https://chiffandfipplewww.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.chiffandfipple.com/terry_mcgee/32/874_2.png) [@Terry\_McGee](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/u/Terry_McGee)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 8:54am UTC](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/t/free-slowdown-software/46623/4 "2007-04-19T08:54:46Z")
Tatsuaki’s time seems to be pretty limited, so naturally enough he puts most of his energy into the PC version, as it satisfies more of the potential users. So the Mac versions always drag well behind the PC, I’m afraid. The autotuner is a very nice musical instrument tuner (all you need is a soundcard with microphone), particularly aimed at flutes (Tatsuaki makes and plays Japanese style flutes). Not only will it permit you to tune and tell you how far out you are, but you can even play a slow melody into it and it will graph your departure from proper tuning. It also shows a waveform of the notes you are playing and a spectum (FFT or Fast Fourier Transform) of the notes, showing the fundamenal and all the harmonics. You could for instance use this to compare the tonal quality of say you and Matt Malloy (assuming you could isolate one of Matt’s notes from a recording). A lot of this is covered in the Help notes (which I wrote) but I have to concede that my notes are getting well behind the current version (moving house and workshop to the coast has set us rather behind on a lot of things!). Terry ---
**Author:** ![fearfaoin](https://chiffandfipplewww.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.chiffandfipple.com/fearfaoin/32/555_2.png) [@fearfaoin](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/u/fearfaoin)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 2:10pm UTC](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/t/free-slowdown-software/46623/5 "2007-04-19T14:10:17Z")
Whatever interpolation/filter algorithm he uses for the slowdown is pretty good. Many free slowdowners sound awful once you get any slower than -20%. In S8tunes, I had to go past -30% before I got distracted by artifacts that were introduced. And even at 40% it’s still pretty listenable. I had troubles with the GUI, though. I couldn’t see the sliders at the bottom which allow you to change the speed and pitch, nor could I resize the window so that I could see them. I had to use the scrollbar to get to the bottom of the window, and when I did, funny things happened with the progress bar. It’s a promising project. Thanks for pointiung it out, Terry. I hope he can get the bugs out of the GUI soon. I’ll have to try the autotuner when I get home and plug in my mic. It sounds quite interesting! ---
**Author:** ![Gabriel](https://chiffandfipplewww.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/9de0a6/32.png) [@Gabriel](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/u/Gabriel)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/t/free-slowdown-software/46623/6 "2007-04-19T20:31:19Z")
Works great. GUI is a bit strange, but well…it works! Thanks for the hint, Terry. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cork](https://chiffandfipplewww.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Cork](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/u/Cork)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 2:16am UTC](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/t/free-slowdown-software/46623/7 "2007-04-20T02:16:59Z")
> [@Terry McGee](#): > > Tatsuaki’s time seems to be pretty limited, so naturally enough he puts most of his energy into the PC version, as it satisfies more of the potential users. So the Mac versions always drag well behind the PC, I’m afraid.;…The autotuner is a very nice musical instrument tuner…;Not only will it permit you to tune and tell you how far out you are, but you can even play a slow melody into it and it will graph your departure from proper tuning.;…(moving house and workshop to the coast has set us rather behind on a lot of things!)… With something like 80% of the market share, Microsoft products tend to dominate the e-landscape, so a Mac lag is anticipated, ah well. The autotuner; Does the autotuner tune to a “tempered” (ie. “tampered”) scale, or to a “just” scale, or to both? Heard about your recent move. Congrats!! Doug ---
**Author:** ![Denny](https://chiffandfipplewww.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.chiffandfipple.com/denny/32/570_2.png) [@Denny](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/u/Denny)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 2:45am UTC](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/t/free-slowdown-software/46623/8 "2007-04-20T02:45:00Z")
The default is “tempered”, there is a “just” toggle ---
**Author:** ![Gabriel](https://chiffandfipplewww.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/9de0a6/32.png) [@Gabriel](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/u/Gabriel)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 7:03pm UTC](https://www.chiffandfipple.com/t/free-slowdown-software/46623/9 "2007-05-08T19:03:49Z")
After some time I can say that s8tunes replaced BestPractise on my computer. The “Play A-B” feature, the playlist with saved values for key, tempo and cents, and sound quality are priceless. Thanks for the advise, Terry!