playrate & templateimage

[Bob Sneidar]

Now THAT is interesting. I used to play guitar along with music in my iTunes. The problem is that recording studios used to alter the pitch of their songs (and so the time of the song) slightly, in order to get the songs to play within the limits imposed by Radio stations, and to get everything to fit onto an LP. (That was a vinyl disc that spun at 33 1/3 rotations per minute and a diamond stylus vibrated with the grooves on the LP, for those of you born after the 80's.) 

Even though these are not considerations anymore, recording studios STILL alter the pitch of songs slightly (not sure why) so each song I played along with I had to do a quick re-tune of the guitar! It was so frustrating I eventually just stopped doing that. 

I wonder if there is a way to change the PITCH without changing the PLAYRATE, or a way to still change both? 

Bob S


> On Mar 24, 2022, at 04:31 , Klaus major-k via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi friends,
> 
> LC never ceases to surprise me and I love that!
> 
> 1. In earlier versions setting the "playrate" of a player object to a different value than 1
> unfortunately also changed the PITCH of the sound/movie.
> 
> Today I was delighted to find out that this is not the case anymore! 
> PITCH does not change anymore when setting the PLAYRATE!
> Thanks for the hint, Frans!
> 
> At least on a Mac. Is this also the case on Windows?
> 
> When did this happen?
> And why didn't anybody tell me? :-D
> 
> 2. The fact that we can also import/export snapshots from "the templateimage"
> also suprised me a lot earlier this week.
> A very handy feature, can make a lot of work unneccessary!
> 
> Same from "the templateplayer" does not work however, but does not throw
> an error, just a small black image.
> 
> 
> Best
> 
> Klaus
> --
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> 
> 
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