Acid Pro 7 and Time Stretching

farss wrote on 10/16/2008, 6:19 AM
I gotta ask, what gives. I jumped on the Vegas bandwagon years ago because of it's audio abilities. I don't do music and yet I now see that Acid is taking over from where Vegas should have been heading audio wise with "Zplane élastique Pro audio timestretching and pitch shifting".

Maybe I've missed something, are the timestretching algorithms used in Vegas past their use by date. I do a lot of this with audio in Vegas, I'd thought I was using the best there is.

There seems to be a host of other goodies in Acid as well. Why not in Vegas.

Bob.

Comments

PeterWright wrote on 10/16/2008, 6:34 AM
Bob, it's hard to find full explanations, but maybe this new "elastique" feature is simply what Vegas has been able to do for years under another name. I've certainly had no problems stretching durations and pitch in Vegas.

Another example of Acid catching up with Vegas - it seems that in the upcoming AP7 version that events can be precisely moved vertically like you already can in Vegas using numerical 8 or 2.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 10/16/2008, 6:58 AM
nothing saying if it is new it won't be in vegas 9. That's normally how things work, isn't it? One program gets a new feature, the next version of the others get that feature.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 10/16/2008, 8:06 AM
> maybe this new "elastique" feature is simply what Vegas has been able to do for years under another name

It doesn't look that way. This is 3rd party technology from Zplane. I would imagine that ACID is paying them royalties to use it. It's great to see that Sony is incorporating the best technology they can find even if they didn't develop it. It would be nice to see it in Vegas as well as I do a lot of timestretching in Vegas to sync live performances with pre-recorded audio.

~jr