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Re: OT - OTT - Audacity now with Paulstretch!



PaulStretch is great!

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Matt Davignon <mattdavignon@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> It's a timestretch effect (you can increase the duration of a sound
> without changing the pitch).
>
> This is kind of a difficult to hear sample, but on this episode of my
> radio show:
> http://ribosomematt.podomatic.com/player/web/2012-07-11T00_27_26-07_00
> ...I use PaulStretch at 0:34:23 on the chorus of "Buffalo Stance" by
> Neneh Cherry, stretching out the chorus to about 2.5 minutes.
>
> Of the timestretches I've heard, it's not my favorite. It sounds like
> it adds reverb to the sounds, and they get a lot more dirty. It makes
> things sound like a Tim Hecker record. (I like Tim Hecker quite a bit,
> but I don't want to sound like him.)
>
> Also, it doesn't have an interface for choosing the final duration.
> Instead, you choose how many times the original length you want the
> final length to be. (Selecting "2" will turn a 1 minute sample into a
> 2 minute sample.) So, if you're using it for something other than idle
> playing around, you'll need to whip out a calculator. I do like that
> it lets you choose the "windowing" setting (or something like that).
> That loosely lets you choose how grainy you want the timestretch to
> sound.
>
>
> --
> Matt Davignon
> mattdavignon@gmail.com
> www.ribosomemusic.com
> Podcast! http://ribosomematt.podomatic.com
>
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 5:15 AM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Who is Paul Stretch? Haven't heard of him.
>> A looper? An Algo?
>> Guess he must be digital in some way...
>>
>> Greetings from Sweden
>>
>> Per Boysen
>> www.perboysen.com
>> http://www.youtube.com/perboysen
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Gareth Whittock
>> <buddhamachine@live.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Woah - yeah - wow!
>>>
>>> Gareth Whittock, sound artist: garethwhittock.co.uk
>>>
>>>
>>
>