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what software is good for changing the tempo

without changing the pitch?

cubase and ableton both do it (though i'd say ableton dois it better), and i'm sure most daw's do it, too.

Live can be ok as long as you dont want to change it too much.

Download the demo and give it try, and see what you think.

http://www.ableton.com/pages/downloads/demo

sound forge, acid pro, ableton, cubase

ReCycle

Oh my baby. But it's really only good for drum loops. Or loops with rhythmic TRANSIENTS!!

As far as time-stretching? Any program will do it. But time stretching almost always sounds shoddy. Time stretching is a bit like pitch-correction. There are two ways to do it.

1. Creatively. OH FUCK PSY TRANCE = TIME STRETCHING AND WEIRDNESS WITH PITCH SHIFTING

2. Technically. The old saying of polishing a turd. You can have amazing results with fixing the tempo of a sample or a track if it's only SLIGHTLY off... or fixing the pitch of a vocal if it's only a semitone or a few centunes off...

But trying to say stretching something from 140 to 110 BPM. GAZUNGAH! Sounds like shit. Same with trying to fix a vocalist who is several semitones off, and is always fucking up notes.

In a way. I really hate the digital era... because I get vocalists at school who just say "OH can you fix that in like AutoTune?"

And I just want to say "Can you sing better? Oh you can't? Well auto-tune can't make your shit singing sound like Charollete Church"

Anyway. I digress. But I hope it was usefull. It's all about the small fixes that makes things sparkle.

^^ word on the street is Hilary Duff / Lindsay Lohan / Paris Hilton are all great friends with Melodyne

You know it buddy

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Originally posted by No Left Turn ^^ word on the street is Hilary Duff / Lindsay Lohan / Paris Hilton are all great friends with Melodyne

I'd say autotune rather than melodyne (but I'm suspecting they might need both in order to sound even remotly on tune )

DJFreaq: You are right in your principle that you can't timestretch it to much without it being noticable. But with todays tools it can be done to a much bigger extent than before. With Live going from 140 -> 110 BPM or the other way around aint a problem, you have to go for a bigger gap to get that horrible result now

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Originally posted by No Left Turn cubase and ableton both do it (though i'd say ableton dois it better), and i'm sure most daw's do it, too.

haha are you crazy? Ableton's timestretching algorithms are worthless to my ears. They produce so severe artifacts that its not even funny

Cubase's advanced timestretch mode is the only plugin that I know of that is transparent upto +-20-30%

well cubase is fine for timestretch work but you need to have a tempo calculator as well...

cheers
Panos

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