[Orlando Enrique Fiol]

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I've been discussing how to do this with other musicians, for the purpose of
improving skill at chord recognition. (was that first inversion just before
the repeat? suspended? diminished?)
None of us knew any software that would do it. The usual suspects don't have
that function. What we use can't do that. What we do now is play a section
over and over, and that works, but it would be convenient to freeze it like you
can freeze a video.

I can do that using Amazing Slowdowner and even Sound Forge. I just scrub the
desired region and loop playback when I have enough to hear.

It seemed likely to me that when you mix a recording perhaps you freeze at a
point but keep listening so you can really hear balance, etc. So I thought I'd
ask here. But maybe you never have enough time and always mix on the fly, who
knows?

Most balance issues in mixing cannot be addressed at the sample level because
sound has various components that can affect balance. For instance, a guitar's
transients might come through clearly in a given mix, while the sustains may
get swallowed up by other instruments.

Is it possible you could tell me the term for what I want to do? I'm pretty
sure I could google it if I knew the name. (You know, like when you go to the
hardware store and say you'd really like a socket wrench on the end of a
screwdriver because you just can't get this piece apart any other way, and they
shake their head sadly and say sorry, wish there was something like that but
nobody makes one, and then your friend asks for a but driver and they say sure,
Aisle 14, right on the end.)


Scrub and loop. All you're doing is setting up a loop point to repeat
endlessly; that's what simulates interminable sustain. No audio software can
simulate the sustain of a group of instruments or singers holding their breath
or pressing keys. The best you can do is loop the sustained portion of a sound
so that you hear something that simulates endless sustain.
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Orlando Enrique Fiol
Ph.D. Candidate in Music Theory
University of Pennsylvania
Professional Pianist/Keyboardist, Percussionist and Teacher
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