whats the fascination with timestretch?

it sounds like ass

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAA_A_A_A_A_A_A_A_AA_DDDDDDDDDB_B_B_B_O_O_O_O_O_O_OOOOOOOO_Y_Y_Y_Y_Y_YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

^ excactly

earwolf wrote:it sounds like ass

you have to know how to use it.....try ableton's time warp and i bet you will skeet your pants

try ableton's time warp and i bet you will skeet your pants

I never messed with timetretch unitl my recent purchase of Live 5. Its a pretty cool feature, and really easy to use in Live. I messed with the timestretch in Acid, and found it to be a real pain.

I don't know. I think thats the cause with some timestretchs. I use the s1000's every once in a while and it doesn't sound bad to me. But then again I don't timestretch long samples. It might not sound as bad if you timestretched chops instead of one long sample.

earwolf wrote:it sounds like ass

It's best used when you have a specific reason for using it...

For example... changing the pitch of a sample without changing the tempo/length..........or changing the tempo/length of a sample without changing the pitch.

Just arbitrarily putting it on a sample to see what it sounds like won't usually yield the best results.
(Unless you're doing those l-l-l-l-o-o-o-o-n-n-n-g-g-g-g-g old jungle style vocal stretches or something.)

try chopping your sample, then timestretching smaller pieces.

You have to chop your sample in logicall areas that correspond well with timing. Sometimes a second half of a phrase might hit a little late, or even just the first quater of a phrase, so on so forth. And sometimes its just enough that throws everything off.......maybe one half is 90.3 and the other is 90.8. When you are programing drums using quantize- .5 of a bpm can throw everything off real easy. If you are timestretching in small amounts there wont be any bad side effects.

Also in the timestretch window you can change the beats. if you chop a sample into 4 pieces, you change the beats to 1, then timestrech each indivdually from there. If you chop a phrase into 2 parts, one piece 3/4 of a bar adn the other 1/4 of a bar you use 3 beats and 1 beat. etc.

hopefully you get what im sayin

Time-stretch is a very handy tool and I never have any problems with it.

Sometimes that delayed effect sounds cool on certain samples.

its not used that much in the hiphop scene

house, drum n bass & aphex stuff use this effect a lot more
ecpesially the aphex IDM stuff.....



and of course for multi sampling .... u can make a good sounding multi piano with just the C as a reference

On rare occassions I'll use it to squeeze a piece of music into 29.5 secs for a commercial but I've not found a use for it in Jazz, blues, rock, or pop...I think it's mostly used to match vinyl sample tempos...

Timestretch is als useful if you've got two days worth of work to do and only one day to get it done - but the hangover is a beatch...

I use my VP-9000s daily. Real timestretching is the best way to take a sample and make it unrecognizable.....a MUST for commercial applications.

Timestretch is als useful if you've got two days worth of work to do and only one day to get it done - but the hangover is a beatch...

Timestretch is als useful if you've got two days worth of work to do and only one day to get it done - but the hangover is a beatch...