Tape speed change effect

Is there a way, in GB8, I can get the effect of changing tape speed - ie frequency halving / doubling, possibly coupled with time duration being halved / doubled?
Thank you for any suggestions.

To be honest I thought iMovie '08 was lame when it came out and I didn't spend more than a half-hour deciding it wasn't worth my time. It may work in a similar fashion, but I can't be sure. In the previous iMovie you would drag your song into one of the audio tracks. Then export the project as a video (video settings could be minimal but keep audio settings high.) Then delete the audio track and drag in the movie you just exported. Then go to Video FX and choose to slow-down or speed-up the file and the audio would speed up/down and effect pitch like the pitch control on a reel-to-reel deck. I also had another cheap audio program that functioned in that way, but I can't remember the name now. It might be easier to do a google search for some shareware/freeware program to accomplish the task if iMovie '08 proves too difficult. I just tested the process in iMovie '06 and it took about 3 minutes to get to the point of playing with the tempo slider.
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