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From: "Rich Peet" <>
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 03:18:55 -0000
Agreed on all points.  There is a wealth of rich sound to explore out 
there and with pitch and stretch you can create sounds that have not 
been heard.  Here is an example of both pitch and stretch changing 
within the segment.

And for learning and improving on audio editor software I highly 
recommend that you find someone with the same software as you with 
roughly the same level of experience and interest and play a lot 
together.  With the internet that person does not need to be in the 
same country as you.  I know Jim from this group sure helped me out a 
lot and we have edited and re-edited many files over the internet.

attached is 666 kb download for those wondering what the heck that is 
all about.  Just a pair of simple barn swallows in a shed on a warm 
summer afternoon, and then someone stretched your mind a bit.

http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/1362.mp3

Rich Peet

--- In  Aaron Ximm <> 
wrote:
> > > drops an octave.  Can you slow the recording and retain the 
same pitch?  Or
> > > does changing the pitch also help you to a better understanding 
of the
> > > sounds?
> 
> Most audio editors can do this, they distinguish between time-
stretching
> (just time), pitch shifting (just pitch), and 'varispeed' (or
> 'resampling') modes (both).
> 
> New Zealand software company Serato makes a well-regarded ProTools 
plugin
> called Pitch n' Time that does an admirable job of this...
> 
> ...but you can get less refined versions freely in most packages, 
eg my
> own editor, Samplitude, which even includes an editing mode in its
> interface that lets you grab sound clips and stretch/compact them
> visually, up to many octaves.
> 
> I believe the shareware editor Goldwave (www.goldwave.com) supports 
all
> these modes btw -- it's a decent windows app.
> 
> Most common implementations suffer from very audible artifacts when 
using
> time only or pitch only modes beyond a half-step or so.  But I find 
I can
> often use varispeed to get fairly extreme effects without processing
> artifacts -- of course, the recordings no longer sound 'natural' 
anyway,
> but... :)
> 
>  best,
>   aaron
> 
>   
>   http://www.quietamerican.org



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