EDIT SAMPLE
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exceeding 10% or so, you may get an echo or ‘flam’ effect on some transients because the
processor has inserted a transient. When shrinking a recording, you may find a transient
softened because the processor has decided to remove it. You will find this to be the case
more or less on all devices that feature some form of time compression or expansion.
A lot of these problems depend on the nature of the audio material being processed and
settings that process the spoken word perfectly could make a right mess of a percussive dance
track. The converse is also true. The biggest problem is in material that has a healthy balance of
low and high frequencies because different timestretch parameters are required to process
different frequency ranges - in audio material that has a wide frequency composition there is
much adjustment to be done to obtain the correct compromise so that both frequency ranges
are adversely affected as little as possible. Please be aware that, on occasions, you may never
get absolutely perfect results and there may be occasional side effects, especially with
extreme settings of stretch - of course, these side effects can be put to good use for the
creation of special effects!! Over smaller ranges, however, you will find the timestretch on the
S3200XL yields excellent results and will become an invaluable tool in your work, whatever
application you are working in.
You could use timestretch to alter the length of a drumloop or breakbeat without altering the
pitch in order for it to fit in with the rest of the track or you could use it to speed up or slow down
a track to change the ‘groove’ or feel. You could even use the timestretch to overcome timing
discrepancies of a ‘live’ band or use it to create gradual tempo changes, etc.. It can be used to
change the length of, say, a backing vocal part or guitar solo so that it can be played back at a
different pitch and so accommodate key changes. You could use it to maintain the same
vibrato speed for a number of ‘multi-samples’ created from one original sample. There are many
possibilities which you will no doubt discover for yourself.
Let us now examine how to operate the Timestretch function on the S3200XL. Pressing
will give this screen:
This enables you to lengthen or shorten a sample or a selected part of a sample from 25% of its
original length to 2000% (twenty times) without changing its pitch.
Two modes are available for stretching: CYCLIC, in which a fixed interpolation rate is maintained
throughout the whole of the sample (suitable for individual instrument samples), and INTELL,
in which the S3200XL “intelligently” varies the interpolation rate according to the sample
content (suitable for speech and music).
As usual, you may select the sample to be edited at the top of the page. The parameters on
this page are:
Here you may set two values to set the start and end of the area of the
chosen sample you wish to stretch. You may only want to stretch one
part of the sample so it should be set here. The first field sets the start
point of the stretched area and the
field sets the end. You may
audition the area you have set using the
key (F6).
Here you can set the cycle length (in samples). The soft key
can
be used to help you find the right sample length. As with autolooping,
