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A surplus of geekery by :: Fred Abercrombie

Geek Out: Clever Hack Makes Any Song Swing

This hack is simply brilliant: The Swinger. It takes a song and time-stretches the first half of each beat while time-shrinking the second half.

Take a listen:


Sweet Child O Mine (The Swinger Version)


Every Breath You Take (The Swinger Version)

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Tristan Jehan created this at Music Hack Day San Francisco and is now my hero.

Source code, more info, and more tunes put through The Swinger at The Music Machinery. (Thanks, Mike)

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