Timestretch for Mac

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Timestretch for Mac

By mattskillz1000 Wed Nov 23, 2005 3:05 pm
Hey guys, got a 1000 and can't wait for this 2.0 upgrade. please post what software you recommend for timestretching/tempo matching on a mac. thank you in advance for your advice.
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By Lampdog Wed Nov 23, 2005 3:25 pm
bias peak

By sparq Wed Nov 23, 2005 3:27 pm
audacity - it's free
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By patalinda Wed Nov 23, 2005 3:35 pm
or....

cubase sx 2

with nice resample methods
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By mattskillz1000 Wed Nov 23, 2005 4:42 pm
thanks guys - huge help
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By 5inusoid Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:47 pm
Lampdog wrote:bias peak


Word.

By sound-arc Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:19 pm
Complete overkill, but I find Ableton Live to be the best app for timestretching, pitchshifting and re-syncing a loop before chopping it up. Just load your samples into the grid, get them sounding how you want them, then render them into new files, simple and fast, but not cheap at a 500 dollar price tag. I don't even use it as a sequencer anymore just as an editor for loops for a couple of esoteric functions a regular editor can't do with ease.

DSP-Quattro is a great 2 track editor for OSX, does just about everything that Peak (even SCSI transfer to your s5000 :P ) does and is written by the same guy that wrote Spark-XL for TC. It runs for 150.00 and is a no brainer for a 2 track editor on OSX IMHO.

I played around with Audacity but found it a bit annoying to work with, but I'm not one to complain about free.

-d
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By 5inusoid Thu Nov 24, 2005 2:10 pm
sound-arc wrote:whats up 5inusoid, I dont realize you post over here too. I'm donalm over at osxa.


Hey man! Why the nym change, you trying to be incognito?
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By 5inusoid Thu Nov 24, 2005 2:18 pm
sound-arc wrote:Complete overkill, but I find Ableton Live to be the best app for timestretching, pitchshifting and re-syncing a loop before chopping it up. Just load your samples into the grid, get them sounding how you want them, then render them into new files, simple and fast, but not cheap at a 500 dollar price tag. I don't even use it as a sequencer anymore just as an editor for loops for a couple of esoteric functions a regular editor can't do with ease.
-d


Yeah but you don't have to pay the $500. If you have a rewirable DAW, you could always rewire the Ableton Live demo into that and bounce the stretched track. I use the Live demo all the time and just patch it into Cubase.
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By 5inusoid Thu Nov 24, 2005 4:32 pm
Yoshimi wrote:Live demo...and audio hijack... two "free" programs that will get the job done. Audio Hijack records any program.

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/


Oh yeah - we're on the same page! I d'led a bunch of standalone synth demos and grabbed a ton of samples from them with audio hijack.
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