Save the licks. Find them again months later.

Most players let you set one loop and forget it the moment you set another. SlowBird treats a hard passage as something you own: select it, name it (“ii–V into the bridge”, “double-time run, chorus 2”) and it becomes a note, pinned to the waveform with its span washed in colour. Click it and it loops. Delete it the week you finally own the phrase.

Notes are saved with the track, alongside its speed, pitch, loop and last position, so opening a tune tomorrow puts you back exactly where you stopped. Across a library of solos that adds up to the thing an ordinary player cannot give you: not a folder of audio files you open and close, but a growing collection of the phrases themselves, each one named and searchable.

That is what changes about practising. The lick you fell for last winter is not lost somewhere around 3:24 of a file you would have to scrub through. It is in the list, under the name you gave it, ready to loop. Vocabulary you can actually return to is vocabulary you end up owning.

They work hand in hand with instant looping and pitch-preserving slowdown, and the pitch heat map is there for the bar you cannot place.

macOS 14 or later · Windows 10 or later · your library stays on your own computer