Stretching without preserving pitch

Community Ideas for Ardour
#1

I am trying to make some livemusic with ardour 8.6. and the cue functionality. I would love to see, that the timestretching would offer the option for stretching without preserving pitch, as i think this might lead to the best results soundquality wise when tonality is not important.

#2

When using the time tool makes certain to select stretch without preserving pitch in the drop-down.

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#3

Thanks i allready know about this. I meant having this option in the time stretching inside the clip launcher. :slight_smile:

#4

Do you know of any other DAW that offers this?

#5

I think i am having a hard time making myself clear :smiley:
When i put a clip into a slot on the cue page i can set the timestretch mode in different settings: Crisp, Mixed, Smooth.
I would like to also have the option of timestretching without preserving the pitch.
If i have some noisy percussion clip and i do not care about the pitch it might give better results to use the audioclip as it is and just play it back slower. I think using other timestretching would always lower the quality of the audio. Maybe im wrong on this.

#6

I am pretty sure ableton does this. But i can’t check right now.

#7

Reaper can do this on a per item basis

#8

I meant for clip launching …

#9

Hm, i believe ableton offers a lot of stretching algorithms for the audio inside the clips. iirc they are complex, complex pro, granular and so on. I am optimistic there should be a pitching option also.

Do you think, that it does not make any sense?

#10

It makes no sense to me at all.

But I’ve been wrong before. If either Live or Bitwig offer it, I’ll probably add it.

#11

Live has it. Audio Clips, Tempo, and Warping — Ableton Reference Manual Version 12 | Ableton
You can read about it at:
9.3.4 Re-Pitch Mode
Also the low resolution graunlar stretching is a nice tool in my opinion. :slight_smile:

#12

Fair enough. It won’t be high priority but I’ll try to include this before 9.0 (it’s not hard, mostly just adding a GUI element).

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#13

Ableton does
Bitwig does

I can demonstrate if needed

This is neat when using on drums/percussion where transient material is more important, not the tonal (eg you want to keep that punch from snare for example, not the actual timing)…