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I have a quick question regarding the NN-XT plugin.

Is there anyway I can make a sample go up or down in pitch without altering the speed?

Not really no. No sort of time stretch for the NN-XT. You can load Rex files in it but that's more to just not have to go to the trouble of keymapping an already sliced sample.

Decay knob is really all you have to add a bit of length to one that got shortened. I used to just bounce from the NN-XT and make Rex files of the bounces, then load those in at the time Dr.Rex, now OctoRex, and re-pich there without speed alteration.

Nope, but I can give you two short work arounds if your using reason 6 or above?

One involves using the pitch shifter RE and using midi note value to change the pitch. so higher key = higher pitch, but no change in length. The other is resampling the sample at different pitches to an audio track then time stretching them to the same length.

What you could if are using reason 5 or below is the most common method from an old school sampler. find a point in the sample you can place a loop without being able to hear it, this works well for tones or sampled instruments (or sometimes just some experimental weirdness). If you loop at the right point and configure the amp and filter envelope you can get very clean results.

m56p87 wrote:What you could if are using reason 5 or below is the most common method from an old school sampler. find a point in the sample you can place a loop without being able to hear it.

Explain further? I'm a little bit lost.

What I'm trying to achieve is having a guitar phrase play in a loop at the same speed, but in a different key.

Well if its a full phrase then looping it wont work. But the technique I was talking about goes as follows. Imagine you have a piano sample, and want to be able to play that sample like a synth (full ADSR) instead of just triggering the one shot sample at different pitches. You would use the looping feature on most samplers to loop a small portion of the sample that would allow you to press and sustain the note, if done with the right sample at the right loop points you can't even tell its been done.

However something like a full phrase wouldn't work in the same way, so I would open something like audacity and manually timestretch + pitch the sample.

m56p87 wrote:However something like a full phrase wouldn't work in the same way, so I would open something like audacity and manually timestretch + pitch the sample.

I was afraid of that... See, I wanted to do something sort of like this with my guitar sample:



It changes in pitch, but not in speed.

Well if you just want like 4 different pitches you could repitch then timestretch in something like audacity with minimal effort.