time-stretching

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:42 pm

what's the nicest way to timestretch your samples? is there any particular program that is particularly good or bad at doing it or is it all relativley the same shit? I'm finding I often don't like the results, audio quality wise. I mean obviousl things are going ot change but what's the best option?

batfink · Post by **batfink** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:40 pm

what are you stretching and why?

you can use recycle to chop up breaks, samples, vocals whatever and then just quantize the chops (manually or otherwise its up to you). if you need to change pitch then pitch shift the individual slices. if its small-ish shifts in pitch it should work ok......

squnt · Post by **squnt** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:52 pm

recycle,live ,flstudio elastic audio are good for timestretching.it depends on what you are trying to do.in live and fl you can use different settings to suit what you are trying to stretch,beats,vox etc

the duke · Post by **the duke** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:11 pm

drums, i recommending splicing, and replaying..

for actual loops of audio though, Ableton Live timestretching is good..

AFL · Post by **AFL** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:32 pm

ABELTON is the answer to all your questions

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:12 am

I'ts not for rythmic stuff its for more melodic stuff so recycle/chapping isnt what im after. Yeh Ive got ableton. Was thinking though, if it can do it so quickly, on the fly, maybe it's cutting corners somewhere? Or is it that there really isnt much to it?

cheers guys!

mrhope · Post by **mrhope** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:20 am

You could use one of the versions of Cool Edit or perhaps Adobe Audition. There are some demo versions of Cool Edit. Cool Edit 2000 for example has a good timestretch function. Just select it as a useable feature from the menu when you launch the demo.

metalboxproducts · Post by **metalboxproducts** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 7:12 am

Ableton is widly excepted to be the best time strech program around.

batfink · Post by **batfink** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:34 am

i think Waves soundshifter ( i think thats the name) is meant to be fairly shit hot too.... but unless you have a beefcake computer its best used for offline processing....

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:43 am

basically want the best sound possible. Not interested in being able to do stuff on the go. I'll give that one a look cheers!

gravious · Post by **gravious** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:30 am

metalboxproducts wrote:Ableton is widly excepted to be the best time strech program around.

Its pretty good, but I find it doesn't deal that well with vocals.
The main advantage is that you can move the warp points around, and dynamically time-stretch things, so you can keep things quantised (or not!).

There are plenty of stand alone things you can use. That plugin looks quite nifty, but I haven't had a go of it. For minor time stretching, sound forge works ok.

whineo · Post by **whineo** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:06 pm

Melodyne is really great for timestretching - Particually vocals

In Ableton the different time stretching algorythms are often overlooked - have a play around with the grain size in the tones or textures algorythms when stretching melodic samples.

However; the final out put of these is a matter of personal preference.

cryptic · Post by **cryptic** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:16 pm

all about fruity loops + cubase

the real time stretcher in fl is great!

i stretch it fruity loops then warp it in cubase!

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