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by zzzmarcus 6262 days ago
What's the first slow downer you use? I'm a banjo player as well but haven't found a good way on a mac to slow Scruggs to the point where I can distinguish his notes.

Capo looks amazing, but if I'm going to drop consider dropping 40 bucks I want to compare :)
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liscio 6262 days ago
You really should download and use the free trial to decide for yourself. In fact, all the slow-downers on the market have free trials.

In Capo, you have all the functionality you need, with the limitation that after 5 minutes of audio pass through for a given song, audio quality will begin to degrade.

Learn a handful of songs with Capo, a handful with the others, and let me know (use the Feedback item in the Help menu) how it went!

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mechanical_fish 6262 days ago
I've got "Amazing Slow Downer". Recommended to me several years ago by Bill Evans.

ASD costs $30 and was a truly awesome app in its day. And it does seem to have all of Capo's functions, except for the nifty waveform display. But the UI is cluttered, overcomplicated, and ugly cross-platform stuff. If I didn't already own ASD I would just buy Capo. As one who does already own ASD I am still considering buying Capo.

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