Newsgroups: alt.music.makers.dj
Subject: Re: Challenge- DJ Studio on a YMCA Budget
References: <[email protected]>
From: Tomi Holger Engdahl 
Date: 25 Feb 1999 11:22:38 +0200
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Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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[email protected] (Pedscience) writes:
 
> I am the fitness coordinator of a progressive YMCA. We want to make a 
> dedicated small "amateur" studio where we can make personal use tapes 
> for exercise, from CDs. Any suggestions on how to do it?! Requirements:
> 
> -to record off of a CD player
> -to record onto a tape player
> -to change tempo without changing pitch
> -Change pitch, possibly
> -put songs together as seemlessly as possible
> -ease of use (yikes!)

This application sounds quite similar to the typical DJ setup
for DJ who spins CDs. There DJ CD players (Denon 2700 ??) 
which can change the tempo and pitch independently of each other.
So with such CD player you can do what you want with the pitch and tempo.
You need to have a small mixer and enough practice to put song seemlesly
together. Then you need a good tape player where you record your final
results.

Another option is to use some PC based system. You need to have
a sound card and suitable sound editing software to do that.
You first transfer the music from the CD to the hard disk and
then use the editing software to change the pusic and put them
together. Then you just play back that combined file through
the sound cards to your tape deck. Links to some sound editing
programs can be found at
http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/pc/sound.html#software
(I don't know if any of those have nice pitch changing functions,
because I have not needed them).

-- 
Tomi Engdahl (http://www.iki.fi/then/)
Take a look at my electronics web pages at http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/