On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 22:53:15 -0700, Matt Davignon wrote:
>I use the Time Stretch that comes with Sony Sound Forge. It's kind of
>a rough one, but I'm ok with that. A friend of mine showed me a
>timestretch she did on some Mac software, and it was much smoother.
>
>I'm actually not that impressed with Paulstretch - it's too reverby,
>and makes everything sound like Tim Hecker, rather than a stretched
>out version of what they originally were. Also, Paulstretch doesn't
>let you pick the exact final length - instead you have to calculate
>how many x the original gets the length you want. (So 1.5 x a 2 minute
>track makes 3 minutes.)
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>On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Rick Walker <
looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
>>On 7/11/12 4:32 PM, Matt Davignon wrote:
>>>
>>>One of my favorite things to do is to bring a
>>>song down to half speed, then time-compress it to its original length.
>>>The song is totally recognizeable, but the rhythm gets noticeably
>>>changed, due to the bits taken out.
>>
>>Cool creative technique, Matt.
>>
>>What software do you recommend for doing this, Matt?
>>
>>By the way, there is an amazing piece of freeware software (I think it's
>>called
>>Paulstretch) for PCs that can radically stretch audio.
>>
>>I love playing a string instrument arpeggio or some tuned bells and then
>>stretch a 20 second phrase out to 3 or 4 minutes.
>>
>>It creates a beautiful, yet ever changing harmonically consonant ambient
>>track.
>>I wish there was something that could do this in real time, but I imagine it
>>might be
>>to CPU intensive to do this in real time.
>>
>>rick walker
>>
>>ps I read once that Richard James (aka Aphex Twin) was paid to do a remix
>>of Depeche Mode or some other famous band.........that he didn't like the
>>song at all
>>so he compressed it over and over until it was just a burst of noise that he
>>used as
>>a backbeat and wrote his own track around it, submitting it as a 'remix'.
>>This cracked me up seriously.
>>