mp3 players with vari-speed/ pitch control

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are there any?

sorry if this has been asked before.

― piscesboy, Monday, 26 September 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

My friend has decks with an aux 1/8" input on them - not an uncommon feature these days. Much to our suprise when you plug an MP3 player into the aux input on the decks you can control the pitch and speed same as you would a record. It's not a straight mp3 player, but maybe a work around?

― Dan Vickery (DrFinger), Monday, 26 September 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Remember those vari-speed/pitch control-featured tape recorders advertised in Down Beat, for years and years? (For use of musos, learning complicated songs from recordings.) Might have MP3 players or something like that now--can't rememebr brand, but check recent issues.

― don, Monday, 26 September 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

i think this might be more complicated than one would imagine.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 26 September 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Creative Zen Xtra

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 26 September 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

(lots of other Creative players have it too)

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 26 September 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Is that where you can speed up the track so it sort of skips a little bit at a time and it sounds fast or is that where it just speeds up like running your finger around a record while it's playing?

If it's the former, check this out.

http://www.zdnet.de/graphics/reviews/supercenter/audiomp3/200301/creative_nomad2.jpg

The Creative Nomad Jukebox 2.

I had it for a couple months but it was too big, but it has that feature.

― Voodoo Child, Monday, 26 September 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

The Nomad Jukebox 2 isn't made anymore and from what I heard the speed control on the Creative players is much better than the old models. Also, the iRiver H10 has speed control (controlled by the touch-strip on the player).

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 26 September 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Pioneer has a couple of CD "turntables" that support MP3 playback and have pitch control sliders:

http://www.futurestyle.org/archives/images/p/pioneer/pioneer-dmp555.jpg
The DMP555

http://www.fransvaneeckhout.be/nieuws/images/pioneer-cdj200.jpg
The CDJ200

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 26 September 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

I think your best bet is to burn your MP3s onto CDs as standard audio/wave files and use a CD deck with pitch control. Using a laptop with programs like Traktor, PCDJ, or Tactile 12000, that allow MP3 pitch control and cross fading just isn't very smooth (mouse/touchpad jockey?) or elegant (read: intuitively tactile). Keeping this in mind, iPod "DJs" are really just Jamaican-style record "selectors", not Disc Jockeys in the modern sense, nahmsayin?

― nancyboy, Monday, 26 September 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

You can get controllers for Traktor which will give you the same hands-on control as a mixer. Having said that, I find Traktor to be very easy to control with a combination of mouse and shortcuts.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 26 September 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

sorry i meant PC based players1 u know winamp/mediaplayer etc.

already have the cd speedy uppy thing in check.

― piscesboy, Monday, 26 September 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

FREE:

Tactile 12000 - www.tactile12000.com

UNFREE:

PCDJ ($299/free demo) - www.pcdj.com
Traktor ($39-$229) - www.nativeinstruments.de/index.php?traktor_us&flash=7
Virtual Turntables ($42/free demo) - www.sonicspot.com/virtualturntables/virtualturntables.html
MixMeister ($49-$279/free demo) - www.mixmeister.com

COMING SOON:

Digital Turntables - www.digitalturntables.co.uk

― fancyboy, Monday, 26 September 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

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