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August 9, 2006 at 3:25 pm #534897

tripmann
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Hello all,

I’m currently using acid pro 6 to do the following:

1. Adjust tempo and pitch of full length dance tracks

2. Overlay pitch and tempo corrected acapellas on top

completed tracks have to conform to an exact bpm to be put together on a mix cd.

The problem I’m having is that acid pro’s time stretching causes the dance track to judder/stutter every so often. It’ VERY noticable.

Can anybody recommend a program that will let me:

1. Time stretch/adjust pitch of FULL LENGTH tracks with as little distortion/stutter as possible.

2. overlay multiple audio tracks.

3. Render to a number of audio formats.

Many thanks in advance guys

Tripmann

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August 9, 2006 at 3:25 pm #595712

tripmann
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Hello all,

I’m currently using acid pro 6 to do the following:

1. Adjust tempo and pitch of full length dance tracks

2. Overlay pitch and tempo corrected acapellas on top

completed tracks have to conform to an exact bpm to be put together on a mix cd.

The problem I’m having is that acid pro’s time stretching causes the dance track to judder/stutter every so often. It’ VERY noticable.

Can anybody recommend a program that will let me:

1. Time stretch/adjust pitch of FULL LENGTH tracks with as little distortion/stutter as possible.

2. overlay multiple audio tracks.

3. Render to a number of audio formats.

Many thanks in advance guys

Tripmann

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August 9, 2006 at 3:37 pm #595714

tim.gosden
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For Timestrecting NOTHING beats Serato’s Pitch n Time although it is very pricey. As used by most producers and also on The Go Teams album, interesting fact for you!

For Multitracking I’d say Cubase, Sonar or Acid would be your best bet and finally rendering, maybe a program such as Soundforge or Wavelab [great audio editors!]

Enjoy.

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August 9, 2006 at 4:07 pm #595721

Choo
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Well, I use it and depending on the original tempo and the speed of the track you’re trying to alter, usually don’t deviate 20-30 points away from it, i.e. 120 to let’s say 150. It will sound really distorted. This usually goes the same with most programs since they deviate usually from the speed of the original track. If you got a slow song and you want to make it even slower, it’s going to sound bad nevertheless.

For rendering audio tracks, Sony Acid supports many formats. You can always use a converter. Well hope this helps.

Cheers,
D J. Choo

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August 10, 2006 at 9:33 am #595784

tripmann
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Acid pro skips even with a few bpm increase because the sample length is so long and contains drum loops.

I was looking at mixmeister but version 6 requires xp and my studio box is Win2K. Is anybody running an earlier version on Win2K and does it do what I need??

Thanks again

Tripmann

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August 10, 2006 at 3:02 pm #595799

In Silico
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Yes, ACID Pro 6 is a great program for timestretching your audio to match other files, you just need to know how to use it. Any specific questions? I can’t just walk you through the process….

-Rob / IS

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August 11, 2006 at 1:57 pm #595850

Viktor K
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tim.gosden wrote:

For Timestrecting NOTHING beats Serato’s Pitch n Time although it is very pricey. As used by most producers and also on The Go Teams album, interesting fact for you!

Very interesting. Does it exist any article about comparsion between different timestretchers. Since I use timestretching a lot it would be interesting.
For example is it much better then Waves Soundshifter?

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August 12, 2006 at 10:04 am #595893

tim.gosden
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Very good question, sounds like the kind of think Sound on Sound would do, head to head with different time stretchers!

Tim.

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August 13, 2006 at 3:07 am #595935

Choo
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SYN wrote:

Remember that you can’t squeeze blood out of a rock.

Yeah, I tried it yesterday, it barked back at me.

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August 13, 2006 at 11:36 pm #595996

etiNetaLmaI
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Honestly… for what your trying to do, I woudnt recommend using Acid 6.0, but Acid 5.0. Acid 6.0 was developed more for the purpose of live recording and midi sequencing. When I mix songs, and make mix cds (very long mix cds [Reggae]) i use Acid 5.0. its less complicated than Acid 6.0 and its friendlier for the purpose your looking for.

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August 15, 2006 at 9:33 am #596085

tripmann
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Right,

I’ve found a method that seems to do the trick. I use acid pro 6 to overlay the acapellas etc on top of the track (track set to ‘one-shot’ to avoid stutters), render to file, then use mixmeister to combine the completed files into a mix.

Messy I know, but it works!

Thanks to everyone who posted in the advice. Hopefully I’ll be able to return some knowledge to the melting pot at some stage!

Tripmann

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August 15, 2006 at 12:27 pm #596104

Viktor K
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devilzone wrote:

@ Vickylicious..Nice point m8, perhaps deserves it’s own topic..

Yeah, I got an idea.
Maybe we could do a test here on the forum, my guess is that a lot of people have different time stretchers.
We choose a file or sample in x BPM. And then time stretch it +/- x% and compare results. That would be interesting for sure.
Deserves it’s own topic though if there is interest.

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