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Lombardo
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Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Philly PA

Timestreching in Recycle and SoundForge

I have both these programs and I cant get either one to work it out! This has been my biggest problem.

I dont understand the percentage thing in soundforge. And Im not sure about the spilts in REcycle. I have all

for example. I have a bunch of samples at 130 120 100 bpm. I would love to make them faster.. Any help is greatly appreciated

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Jan-11-2005 22:15 United States

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Lombardo
Senior tranceaddict

Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Philly PA

come on guys... give a brother a little help. I know there are some smart kats on here that use sony and recycle. If any of you have any timestretching experience with sonar 3 I could use that also.

This thing is gonna be the death of me!!!

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Jan-12-2005 20:47 United States

alanzo
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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Boston, MA

In soundforge, if you click on the time dropedown, you can change it to BPM. It's in the middle-right of the time stretch window.

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Jan-12-2005 20:57 United States

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Lombardo
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Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Philly PA

quote:
Originally posted by alanzo
In soundforge, if you click on the time dropedown, you can change it to BPM. It's in the middle-right of the time stretch window.

Yea I know that. You think it would be that easy but they ask you about percentage shit and I can't figure it out.

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Jan-12-2005 22:27 United States

No Left Turn
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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: San Francisco

quote:
Originally posted by Lombardo
Yea I know that. You think it would be that easy but they ask you about percentage shit and I can't figure it out.

open up the time stretch window...

in the middle you'll see a section called "input format" and, by default, it should be set to "time hr:mn:sc:xxx". click on that drop menu and you can change it to BPM or %. if you change it to BPM, you enter the original BPM of the sample and then the new BPM you want to stretch it to.

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bachatu
A Trance Of Thought

Registered: May 2001
Location: South Florida

quote:
Originally posted by Lombardo
Yea I know that. You think it would be that easy but they ask you about percentage shit and I can't figure it out.

It's a matter of Identifying bpm of the sample or loop you are working with, then figuring out what bpm you want to bump it to. Before starting to calculate your bpm, make sure you trim the sample.

if you need to figure out the set bpm of your loop or sample, go to the special menu, edit tempo. Make sure you select "beats" under input or time format. select the # of beats the sample has (usually 1 or 4). When you select the the # of beats, it calculates the BPM of the sample you are working with. Once you have the true BPM, time stretch the piece, select BPM as the time format, and the current BPM should match what you calculated earlier. Update the final bpm to the bpm that you want to change it to... and thats it.

I dont really use percentage much. But when you want to get 'precise', you can do time format. Depending on BPM you are working with, each beat will have a certain lenghth in milliseconds. Find a BPM to MS converter, so you can calculate beats, quarter notes, the list goes on. this is very helpful when working with samples.