Extreme audio stretching
A couple of months ago i was looking at audio stretching tools, and i came across Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch. A niffty little tool to stretch audio completely beyond normal use (unlimited stretch amount). You can listen to audio in realtime or render it to a wave file. Its also possible to 'freeze' the sound, which can result in some cool sound effects.
Here is a small test i did. The stretching works best on String/Synth like sounds, that are 'smooth'.
This is the original sound, which is 25 seconds long (taken from the NeoTokyo trailer). Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
This is the stretched version, now 8 minutes long! Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Installing Photoshop CS2 on Windows 7 (x64)
Installing Photoshop CS2 on Windows 7 (64bit) gave me the following error when starting Photoshop:
Your Adobe Photoshop user name, organization or serial number is missing or invalid. The application cannot continue and must now exit.
Fix this by uninstalling Photoshop, and reinstalling it to the following location: C:\progra~2\adobe
Photoshop now installs correctly!