Problems with Time stretch pitch shift

cg wrote on 5/11/2003, 5:16 AM

Hello,
I cut a piano music video and when I change length and preserve pitch in different tracks, I get problems: I hear sometimes an echo and so on. What is the right crossfade to hear nothing else like the original piano music without any echo or other things?

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bgc wrote on 5/11/2003, 5:44 AM

you need to play around with the different available settings. it's possible that you might not be able to get a stretch without artifacts using the built-in stretching tool.
maybe try Acid's stretching capabilities or a 3rd party plug-in.

JohanAlthoff wrote on 5/11/2003, 8:10 AM

If it's a musical track, it'll be hard not to hear at least SOME artifacts. The settings that produce less echoing usually tend to make the music sound out-of-tune instead. There simply is no "wonder"-setting.

May I ask exactly what you're doing to that poor piano track? Wouldn't it be better to make the video fit the music instead? =)

cg wrote on 5/11/2003, 2:26 PM

Please, can you tell me some 3rd party plug-ins for time stretch pitch shift?

Ben wrote on 5/11/2003, 2:38 PM

Hey CG

I was after a very decent timestretch DX plugin a couple of months ago. After much digging, asking and searching, it seems such a plug doesn't really exist. What I was recommended, though, was Prosoniq Timefactory. It's a standalone program and isn't exactly cheap, but sounds incredible. The UI ain't great - can be fiddly - but the results are invariably fantastic. Reminded me of the timestretching on old DAR workstation DAWs.

If you can afford it, it's definitely worth getting.

HTH,

Ben

Geoff_Wood wrote on 5/11/2003, 11:23 PM

Also, you may have an unrealistic idea of what can be achieved with time-sretching/pitch-shifting. Anything other than a small amount can sound *really* artificial with any algorithm .

geoff