From Hrvatski Sent Thu, Jul 8th 1999, 05:20
From Hrvatski Sent Thu, Jul 8th 1999, 05:20
>>when jungle was new and exiting (circa 1994) there was a lot of "staccato" >>timestretching going on, i.e. "g-g-g-a-a-a-ng-ng-ng-s-s-s-t-t-t-a-a-a" (shy >>fx & gunsmoke), i suppose due to bad timestretching software.how does one >>go about >getting that effect today? Any Akai sampler gives you the option of 'Intelligent' or 'Cyclic' timestretching. Cyclic's the classic technique, it works like early granular synthesis, here's a visual demo: MC yells' "Dub Plate Preshaaaah" when you stretch it cyclically, it comes out: "DuDubub b PlPlalatatete e P PrPrereseshshahaaaaaaaaaaahah" you set the length of your grain (cycle, this case three letters) and the % of new time (20% to 1600%, memory depending, in this case 300%). Intelligent timestretching is more like the software algorithm you get w/Sound Forge & SoundEdit 16 (awesome...), it sort of second guesses louder bits (pitch/character) and just does pure-wave-period stretching on quieter bits. I may be speculating a bit randomly on all of this. Timestretching is one of those magical things which in theory, shouldn't be possible. I hope I never REALLY figure it out, 'twould be no fun.... -Våt ____________________ Reckankreuzungsklankewerkzeuge PO BOX 382864. Cambridge, MA 02238 http://www.tiac.net/users/sheket/index.html