How to speedup/slow down tracks?

What I mean, how do I speedup/slow tracks down. I have been using the time stretch tool which as you know, either elongates or shorten tracks. I have been using that to speed up or slow down tracks, but I want to keep the track the same length. What is a way to do that?

How can you speed it up or slow it down without changing its length?

I assume you mean you want to adjust the pitch up or down whilst keeping the same length?

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Tempo ramping

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No that is not what I meant. I know I can adjust the pitch to have a high or low sound. I am looking for the slow/fast sound but keeping the same length

No that is not what I meant. I know I can adjust the pitch to have a high or low sound. I am looking for the slow/fast sound but keeping the same length

Since this makes no sense at all please provide an example (video or sounds of fore and aft specimen)

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Without me actually having tried it myself, could try stretching it with the “Not preserving pitch” option enabled. Then put it back to the desired length with preserving pitch enabled.

Quick terminology question I want to ask, as there seems to be an assumption you mean ‘Region’ here when you say ‘Track’ since the times stretch tool operates on regions,

When you are saying track above do you truly mean region? As then I agree with others, what you are describing (Speed something up which by definition means it takes less time to complete, but still keeping the sound to use the same overall time) in your posts is mathematically impossible. It would be the mathematic equivalent of saying 1/2=1. So I would be curious if you can record a quick demonstration of what you mean using any software that does what you are looking for, so I can see what you are talking about.

If you truly mean track, then what you do with the contents of the track has no bearing on ‘track length’ which doesn’t really exist in Ardour, but you may be referring to the length of the export of a track, which is defined by your export parameters (Ranges, etc.).

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