Is there a CD player with variable speed?

[ajm]

Besides the "portastudio" type devices, does anybody know if one of these exists?

[Steve Feldman]

Marantz portable job. Pretty good quality though, with pitch control.

[Martin Abend]

Check out stores for DJ equipment. Lots of Dj-CD players sport this feature. Not cheap, though.

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[John Lacey]

Band in a Box 10 has got a program that comes with it that will slow down small sections of a CD. Seems to work pretty well, I'm sure there are other software pkgs. out there that do the same.

[Jetdrivr]

Do you want this feature to slow down recordings for learning purposes?..If so try this. Buy a Creative SoundBlaster sound card for your computer. Its internal player has a speed control which will slow down Mp3s and Cds to 1/6th normal speed...without changing the pitch...great tool...

[Steel tryin]

You may have to go Minidisc.
Sony has a Minidisc with pitch
control fine and half step. It also
has more importantly A-B function
that lets you play segments repeatedly.

[SveinungL]

What you could try is the Korg Pandora PX-3.
You can record up to 16 seconds of music and slow it down to 25% of the original speed - without changing the pitch. The quality of the sound won't be the best, but good enough to hear the notes (if that is the goal).
The small unit is also a great practicing/headphone amp with effects. You can plug in the CD player and change the pitch of the music to match the steel (if you don't want to tune the steel to the music). The sound quality will drop a bit, but good enough for practicing.
This unit is even a decent efffects prosessor...
I should get real well paid from Korg for this one. Ha ha

There are also a lot of software for PC/MAC out there to slow down music without affecting pitch or soundquality.

Good luck


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