Timestretch?

Hey...
This might sound like a stupid question, but what is the timestretch function on the 2000xl?
I own a mpc1000, which supposedly doesn't have this funktion. So I'd appreciate a brief description of what timestretch is. Am I missing out on something useful?

i have the 2000classic so i dont have timestretch. this is what it does- it stetches the sample to fit your sequence, without changing the pitch.

Timestretch is pretty much what it says.It allows you to stretch a sample without changing the pitch of the sample.For instance say you have a piano key that you want to elongate.You can timestretch it ,similar to using a pedal on a piano.It would be nice to have but it's not an option on the 2k or 1k.

Peace.

My bad i was typin' mine out as you were postin' D.

its all good fam.



i make due without timestretch, but i bet its fun.

Anders......timestretching can be very useful. I like to use really tight, quantized beats but then have a break or percussion loop running quietly underneath them as a kind of atmosphere for the programmed beats. I usually need to timestretch those loops, especially if I want to get some latin jazz congas which are running at around 104 bpms up to 125. If I just speed up the sample it will sound like matchsticks being snapped by the time it gets to the right tempo.

However if your MPC cannot timestretch there are plenty of computer programs that can do it for you, often much better than hardware can. I've got a 2000 which doesn't, but I do my timestretching with Ableton Live on a Mac.

I don't actually know how good the timestretching is on the 2000xl. When I was borrowing a S3000xl a couple of years ago I found the sound quality was good but I could never work out how to stretch something to the exact length I wanted.

Well the 2KXL has a BPM match function on the Timestretch screen (This is to featherboy)...

As far as quality of the Time strecth on the XL... It's good if you know what you're doing... It has presets....

Meaning that if I'm timestretching a series of Kick drums and I'm timestretching a melody... The XL is gonna timestrecth them differently.... It knows it'll have to spend much more time stretching the melody cause it's easy to spot... However, strecthing a low frequency rhythm might not take long at all...

Also you can compensate for certain things being stretched.... For instance it has a feature where you can focus more on the high freqeuncies or the low frequencies... I use this sometimes where I'll time stretch A loop I got off a record with a bassline and melody... Now I don't need the bassline to be strecthed perfectly cause I'm gonna filter it out and lay my own later... So I set it so that it only focuses on stretching the high end where the melody is... This will leave the bottom end a little choppy sometiems after stretching, but as I said I'm gonna filter that out anyways...

You gotta learn how to use it right just like anything else... But it gets the job done...

so if you have a 2k classic, the only way to change the time of a sample is the tuning function, or to use software?

correct. i fuk w the xl cuz of the timestretch i use it on beats where im puttin in samples from diff sources. cuz i need them to be in the same tempo AND the same key.

yeah, thats where the trouble im having is. having stuuf be in the same key! the tuning changes it up and then i have to redo all samples to get the same key for everything! damn. thanks

the 1k doesnt have time stretch?

four eyes wrote:the 1k doesnt have time stretch?

yes it does with the JJ OS and it's alot faster than the XL.