speeding up samples without changing the tune of the sample

yo it's beaglin.. i wanted to know if anyone could help me with how to speed up a sample and how to do it without changing the tune of the sample.

pitch-shift

...erm... excuse me, that's wrong- I meant to say timestretch

dequalsrxt wrote:pitch-shift

...erm... excuse me, that's wrong- I meant to say timestretch

You'll have to chop it into lots of parts though. Otherwise it'll sound **** up and will take forever to process on the MPC2000XL. There are computer progs that do this for you. I used to have a roland variphrase, which'll do it all automatically in real time for you.

Otherwise it's the manual way on the MPC.

maxlifo wrote:You'll have to chop it into lots of parts though. Otherwise it'll
sound **** up and will take forever to process on the MPC2000XL.

No kiddin' - I was using some really large samples that needed serious timestretching a couple years ago - I would start my mpc on the process and then go grocery shopping while it worked! Sometimes it would still be working when I got back. First time I tried timestretching on a longer sample I thought my mpc had frozen.

Some of the mpc timestretch algorithms, imo, sound pretty ok - if you can figure out which is the right one to use for the right sample, which can be sort of difficult sometimes.

I gotta disagree with that.I use it to timestretch and it dosnt take that long .It does if you have a real long sample and put it the highest quality C .BUt if your just sampleing it should be that long or that s just copying..

Prosoniq Timefactory does a much beter job than the MPC for timestretching. What I do is I determine the bpm of a loop by loading it up in Recycle, then load it into Prosoniqu Timefactory and wham. Perfect sync for adding to the mpc. Great sound quaality.