Time stretching without sounding like shit?

[tavravlavish]

I've never quite mastered stretching out a sample without making it sound bad. I usually try to melt it with reverb or something. I know some people have pretty powerful time stretching programs, I'm still rocking audacity. Any words of wisdom?

[Skrew]

Of the couple months I've visited this forum, I've probably seen the question at least 10 times.

[ehbes]

lowpass it, reverb as insert reverb as send near 100%

[hypersleep]

Use something better than Audacity. There are much better time stretching algorithms in almost any other commercial DAW or audio editor.

[NinjaEdit]

FL's Edison has further parameters.

[wub]

Edison still has artifacts popping up way too often for my liking.

Have a fiddle with PaulStretch, it seems to cope with the artifacts a lot better than most.

[Electric_Head]

I find the Elastique pro Timestretch algorithm in Reaper does a pretty super job at time stretching while still limiting the Matrix style time stretch.

[mks]

What are you trying to timestretch? Drums or something else?

It depends on if you are going for an effect or just to get something in the right tempo.

The smallest amount possible usually works best unless you are going for an effect type thing.

[wormcode]

I find the Elastique pro Timestretch algorithm in Reaper does a pretty super job at time stretching while still limiting the Matrix style time stretch.

Just wanted to mention here that pretty much every major DAW uses the Elastique and Elastique Pro algorithms. They license it from Zplane... FL, Cubase, Reaper, Ableton Live, Kontakt and loads more. It's the best 'instant' realtime timestretching around for the processing power so they all use it. I think Logic uses one from iZotope.

[Electric_Head]

The thing is Wormcode, most DAWs aren't natively set to use Elastique pro.
So you get major stretching algorithms.
But once you set it up correctly it's like night and day.

[wormcode]

That's probably true, I haven't seen that myself but it doesn't surprise me some would have more than 1. I haven't noticed that option in most software though, but I don't use Reaper exclusively so might have missed it in there. Pretty sure Cubase 6 is now using the Pro by default. Also Reason 6+ is using a proprietary one I think, and I hear great things about it. It's the one from Record.

[sunny_b_uk]

to my ears kontakt is the best for stretching things 50% or so
paul stretch is the best for stretching at 200%+
izotope iris is amazing for stretching simple sounds but when dealing with complex basses it sucks, konkakt is the best for stretching basses IMO.

[ehbes]

That's probably true, I haven't seen that myself but it doesn't surprise me some would have more than 1. I haven't noticed that option in most software though, but I don't use Reaper exclusively so might have missed it in there. Pretty sure Cubase 6 is now using the Pro by default. Also Reason 6+ is using a proprietary one I think, and I hear great things about it. It's the one from Record.

Reason 6 has a couple different ones to choose from

[gl1tch]

How do you change algorithms in Reason?

[ehbes]

In the audio track in rack view there's an option that says Timestretch, next to a little drop down box

[gl1tch]

Nice one, thanks.

[Artie_Fufkin]

Copy and paste single cycles of the waveform?

[dubesteppe]

this will solve all your problems http://www.prosoniq.com/editing-products/timefactory-2/

[viberous]

ableton live

[Sine69]

Try using paulstretch. http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/