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Transcribe audio hijack12/9/2023 ![]() ![]() This single screen shot doesn’t express the full horror of Transcribe’s multiwindow nightmare of a user interface. It has more features than either Capo or ASD, but has an even worse user interface than ASD. It’s less cluttered (y’think?), the sliders work better, and loop selection is easier.Īnother speed-and-pitch changer is Transcribe! from Seventh String. And there’s just no comparison between ASD and Capo when it comes to user interface:Ĭapo’s user interface is not just better looking, it’s more usable because more thought went into it. By supporting drag and drop from iTunes, Capo cleverly avoids these problems and leverages iTunes’ searching and selecting capabilities. Then you select the song from a scrolling list within ASD that shows only a handful of songs at once. But to use ASD with your iTunes library, you need to first import the library, which can take a long time. The Amazing Slow Downer (ASD) from Roni Music is a pretty well known application that does the same thing. A competitorĬapo is not the only application that can change the speed and pitch of playback. Click it, and Capo will loop that section until you tell it to stop. The little “play this repeatedly” button appears near the top right corner of the chunk after you’ve selected it. If you’re a vascular surgeon who plays guitar on the side, Capo has a way for you drag between the semitone increments.ĭragging within the waveform selects a chunk of the song for looping. By default, the pitch slider hops along in one-semitone increments as you drag it again, these are the most common adjustments you’d want to make, and the software detents are Capo’s way of helping you do what you want with the least effort. The pitch slider, which appears when you click the Pitch button 1, lets you play the song higher or lower. ![]() You’re not limited to these rates-the slider can be dragged to any position-but having them one click away removes a common annoyance of sliders: to get exactly the value you want often takes the fine motor control of a vascular surgeon. ![]() The speed control (shown above) lets you lock in common playback rates of quarter-speed, half-speed, etc. The usual volume and playback controls.Sliders that let you control independently the speed and pitch of the playback.A nice big clock to show you where you are in the song.The song’s title, artist, album name, and album cover artwork (if there is any).A scrolling waveform with a “playhead.”.The previously blank window stretches out and fills with You start using Capo by dragging a song out of iTunes (or out of a folder) and into Capo’s window. I also have some ideas to make Capo even more useful. I’ve been messing with a beta of Capo for several days and have been really impressed with the quality of both the sound and the user interface. Capo helps you figure out how to play your favorite songs-the tracks in your iTunes library, for instance-by allowing you to adjust their speed and pitch and create loops for playing the hard parts over and over again. Today Chris Liscio of SuperMegaUltraGroovy released Capo, a simple and well-designed application for musicians and aspiring musicians. ![]()
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