Time Stretching Methods

Hey Whats Goin On Peeps?!...

I was wondering if everyone would be koo enough to post their Time Stretching Methods [ and how helpful/effective it has been for them]...

I was just curious on how others Time Stretched and Im sure other people are as well...

I am currently Time Stretching In Logic PRo 9 Then Sending Samples To MPC

I do it with my mpc 1000

and how have your results been? do they sound choppy or as if they lose quality?...Thats what i was getting when i was time stretching with my MPC

Sound is good. It differs on how much you stretch.

same here. ^^

someone mentioned that the stretches sound a lot worse after + / - 15% or so.

^^ yeah i read that before as well...what i was doing was setting the original tempo to around 100 then new tempo to around 90 and puttin the pitch up about 3....

im still not too sure what the best ways to time stretch in mpc are...still practicing...thats why i started this thread...to see if anyone would enlighten me...ihave read this section on maunual...but sometimes other people can explain better in different words...

thx for the replies tho peeps...greatly appreciated...

I tried for a long time to get good results from stretching in my 1000. I came to the conclusion that my old method KILLZ the 1000's stretching by a MILE.



ACID 4.

Yup, pre-Sony. Unbelieveably light on the CPU, auto-stretches multiple samples at once, you can adjust the tempo and pitch in realtime, etc,etc,etc. By ACID 5, I hated it. Stayed oldschool, and my newer computers make this program FLYYYYYY. So fast. Sound quality of a drastically streched or pitched loop slaughters the 1000, too. Super-easy to render the new, affected loop right back to the MPC, too.


And, Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge 5 is better for chopping than the MPC, as well.



I wanted to throw my PC away when I got my sampler. I have realized now that this would have been crippling myself. PC+MPC>MPC.

I Remember when i had a PC i used Acid for everything that had to do with music l0l...

i now have a iMac and acid is not supported on Mac...[im not trippin right?]

cuz i tried to install it and its tellin me it isnt supported...

when i use Logic 9 to time stretch..it sounds pretty decent/and pretty wak at the same time. lol...but ive yet to master the technique...

ahhh sonic foundry, those were the days, i still use sf and acid for editing samples, acid is pretty dope considering what it is, i agree with everything quiet said and also love the fact that you can easily add and change filters/effects at the same time, saves me a lot of time.

and i totally agree pre-sony acid and soundforge for the win!

never really felt the 1000's timestretch. I TS in Reaper when needed. Pretty simple in Reaper by just dragging audio file and making it longer or shorter and matching it with the bpm you want. BUT, my buddy has Ableton Live 8 and its sick wit it when it comes to TS'ing. I had a loop where the tempo was all over the place. Ableton let me stretch in diff places and synced it right inside the sequencer. Would have been a tough task for my mpc.

o0o0o0o0o0o^^^ Thats very good information too know...

when in logic..i select the 4 bar area[or however long the loop is] and make sure the loop cursor[green] is on...

then set my tempo...

then i click audio [while track is selected] and scroll down to where it says "time stretch to nearest locator"...

thats been working for me...but i wouldnt mind exploring other methods...

I prefer to do as much as possible within the 1k. I usually try to pick samples that go together that are close within BPM so Timestretching is minimal.

I don't mind that you can't always get things perfect, and I don't mind the little mistakes or glitches. It gives the music a bit of character.

I HATE to timestetch, I guess I am a bit old school in my ways and just don't like it. BUT, if I absolutely have to do it in order from pitching way up or down, I do it through my s2000 rack. Slow as hell but gives pleasant artifacts I haven't had from any software. I find software is either clean but looses it "punch" or keeps everything intact sonically but sounds choppy (or both). This is the only machine I do it on if I really need to. It doesn't sound great compared to not doing it at all but does have it's own character which I can deal with.

ONE wrote:
I don't mind that you can't always get things perfect, and I don't mind the little mistakes or glitches. It gives the music a bit of character.

Interesting. I think i need to print this out and hang it on my wall for when i work extended hours trying to get something "PERFECT". Nice gem you dropped there One.

faze1 wrote:

ONE wrote:
I don't mind that you can't always get things perfect, and I don't mind the little mistakes or glitches. It gives the music a bit of character.

Interesting. I think i need to print this out and hang it on my wall for when i work extended hours trying to get something "PERFECT". Nice gem you dropped there One.

Thanks, man! Those imperfections and working around them and with them is where you get your signature sound from. At least for me anyways.