# How to slow down audio with minim?
**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-slow-down-audio-with-minim/11212
**Category:** Libraries
**Created:** [May 14, 2019, 12:05am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-slow-down-audio-with-minim/11212 "2019-05-14T00:05:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@RienziDeal](https://discourse.processing.org/u/RienziDeal)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2019, 12:05am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-slow-down-audio-with-minim/11212/1 "2019-05-14T00:05:45Z")
Hi, I’m using a song and I want it to slow down but continue playing slower from the same point when clicked when I click on an alcohol bottle (which will imply that the character is drunk) Any help?
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### Author:  [@kll](https://discourse.processing.org/u/kll)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2019, 4:32am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-slow-down-audio-with-minim/11212/2 "2019-05-14T04:32:16Z")
did you check on the MINIM examples?
/Synthesis / tickRateExample
/Synthesis / flangerExample
both might be usable
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### Author:  [@jeremydouglass](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jeremydouglass)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2019, 12:45pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-slow-down-audio-with-minim/11212/3 "2019-05-17T12:45:46Z")
It sounds like TickRate is the kind of “slow down” that you want.
> The TickRate UGen can be used to control the generation rate of the UGen that is patched to it. **It is equivalent to slowing down or speeding up a record player.** With a rate of 1, the patched UGen will come through normally, but 0.5 will half as fast and sound an octave lower, whereas 2 will be twice as fast and sound an octave higher. [Minim : : TickRate](http://code.compartmental.net/minim/tickrate_class_tickrate.html)
As @kll suggested, here is the example:
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### Author:  [@justin\_lincoln](https://discourse.processing.org/u/justin_lincoln)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2020, 7:36am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-slow-down-audio-with-minim/11212/4 "2020-10-04T07:36:33Z")
Can this work for samples? While this works with filePlayer and looping I’m not understanding how to patch it in with loadSample and Trigger.