Phrasing lives in the details a full-speed listen skips

Slow a verse down and the ornaments, scoops and breath placement all come into view, in the original key, so what you internalise is what you sing. Transpose the whole track to your range without touching the tempo. Loop one phrase and shadow it; save the passages that carry the song as named notes. On old hard-panned records the channel blend can bring the voice forward from one side.

A detail worth knowing: cent-level tuning trim helps with records that were never quite at concert pitch. Everything else SlowBird does (the searchable library, per-track memory, the five-band EQ) is described on the main page, and the core tools in depth under slow down, looping and notes.

And as the collection grows, the notes viewer keeps it in reach: every note in your library on one canvas, grouped by tag, soloist or track. Search “Ella” and every Ella Fitzgerald phrase you have saved lights up; click one and it plays.

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