On Sat, 30 Oct 2021 at 19:53, Richard Shann <rich...@rshann.plus.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 2021-10-30 at 19:18 +0300, Lib Lists wrote: > > Hi, > > (Listen to the attached .mp3) When I change the Slowdown value in the > > Playback Control (in this case to 1,2) I get this crackling sound. At > > speed = 1 everything works fine. I thought the slider would change > > the > > BPM but it seems it tries to stretch the audio in real-time, am I > > right? > > Yes, to change the BPM you use the button at the other end of the line > where the BPM is given. > > The slowdown slider does real-time slowdown of the audio output, so > everything, the attack, the decay all is slowed down. The quality isn't > as good as when not slowed down but it doesn't have the type of > distortion in your example. I take it you haven't got the volume too > high? I was thinking it may just be a question of raw computing power, > but I just tested it on a dual core 1.5GHz Asus laptop under Windows > and it worked fine. That machine takes an age to typeset or do anything > much.
No, the volume is not too high. However, I'm using Linux under VirtualBox and I'm wondering if that could be the cause of this problem. > Anyone else tried the slowdown feature? (It's really for people > transcribing from audio source - you load the audio and then it's handy > to slow it down sometimes as you transcribe). > > Richard >