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Is there a plugin for sfp that does proper timestretching/pitchshifting?
Like for example soundshifter from Waves?

sts-5000

Sorry but the sts5000 sound like sh*te...Anything else?

use soundshifter if you really like it.....

cream wrote:Sorry but the sts5000 sound like sh*te...Anything else?

Stretching algos are often specialized, for different sounds you need different ones...this is what you may expect from a specialized plugin. STS does one thing very very well in the stretching domain: vocal stuff. If you also tweak the formant a bit you may have incredible results. I had a long note recorded from a female singer, very nice, long and with some very good vibrato fading in after 2 secs. Well, I loaded it in 2 instances in the sts 5000 (memory use is like 1 instance), one taking care of a full female range and the other one, after tweaking the formant, taking the range of a full male range. I must say that I never heard anything so good. It's not for everything though.

garyb wrote:use soundshifter if you really like it.....

What's the soundshifter?

alfonso wrote:

cream wrote:Sorry but the sts5000 sound like sh*te...Anything else?

Stretching algos are often specialized, for different sounds you need different ones...this is what you may expect from a specialized plugin. STS does one thing very very well in the stretching domain: vocal stuff.

I think that the STS5k is fantastic at least for another task: to change a bassline on the fly. It's really incredible the tutorial they writed in the manual: the one that explains the robot mode. In that example you take a bass loop and you can change the pitch of the single notes in realtime keeping the time and preserving the harmonic content!

Stupid question,
What host software are you using? I have to admit that nothing in the
creamware arsenal (that I've seen) mearsures up. I would HIGHLY recommend you check out Melodyne. UN FREAKING BELIEVABLE what this baby can do in regards to pitchshift, time correct, and audio manipulation.

Carmine

great! melodyne is really cool and integrates quite well with scope.

Abletons timestrech (aka warp) seems to do a pretty nice job also

as For pitchshifitng Modular Pitchshifter is awesome in my opinion!!

I've used a Melodyne demo once but it just didn't work for me.
I also had the Roland Varios which was great in the beginning but the
algorithms where not that great. Especially if you sample from vinyl a lot. The clicks and pops turned into weird aqua sounds if you pitched them. I sold it eventualy.
Waves Soundshifter is way better. It's fast and easy to operate and works also in realtime.
One thing that bothers me is that I must use Kontakt to use it. ( I do everything with midi) ( anyone wants to buy Kontakt 2 btw?
I was hoping for a cool sfp device that does the same (or better) so I can use it within my sfp environment.

im sure you could achieve a timestrecthing effect With The Flexor 3 granular modules somehow. dont ask me how cause im not too advanced with modular synthesis...yet . but there are alot of pros here who are