Subject: RE: [linux-audio-user] Acid for Linux ? - Pitch shift
From: Brian Redfern (bredfern_AT_calarts.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 11 2002 - 01:20:48 EET
That's why they put out the "loops for acid' libraries, which I have used
to good effect with terminatorX. tX already has beatmatching, you just
don't sequence loops with it, but rather load multiple loops which you can
trigger against each other. One track is set as the master and all the
others get their tempo tweaked to match it. So when I use the loops for
acid it works very well, cause the files are cut to match up already.
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Jesse,
> It is, to the best of my knowledge, a misnomer that is flowing around in
> this thread that Acid time-stretches anything in real time. I do not know
> that to be the case at all, but also admit that I haven't tried to do it.
>
> My use of Acid has focused on the use of specific samples at the speed
> they were recorded at. If the drum library loops were 145BPM, my song will
> be at 145BPM. I think the likelihood of time-stretching a sample and having
> it be sonically interesting is pretty minimal, but I'll happily respond to
> the application that does it first! ;-)
>
> Acid does have 'Beat Mapper'. Most of us gave up depending on it a while
> ago. It's a misnomer that you can use it on too much recorded material as
> real musicians vary their tempo by miniscule amounts anyway, so it isn't
> constant enough to depend on for that. It can be helpful in grabbing a
> specific section of a song and helping you cut a loop out of it, but I
> typically don't have the patience to do that on a regular basis when I can
> by a loop library that has 500 loops for $50.
>
> I don't know which one of you, yourself or Steve, is smarter, but I'm in
> awe of both of you, as well as about a dozen others here.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesse Chappell [mailto:jesse_AT_essej.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 12:57 PM
> To: linux-audio-user_AT_music.columbia.edu; Mark Knecht
> Subject: RE: [linux-audio-user] Acid for Linux ? - Pitch shift
>
>
> Mark Knecht wrote on Tue, 10-Dec-2002:
>
> > Acid has the ability to shift samples by known amounts, so that if I have
> a
> > bass line in C, I can shift it up a major 4th to F and it will fit into
> the
> > sound quite easily. This function in Acid works pretty well over a
> limited
> > range, say +/- a major 6th, but starts to fall apart pretty badly at an
> > octave, in my experience. (It depends a lot on the library.)
> >
> > Until this morning I hadn't considered using freqtweak to accomplish the
> > same thing. Today I would have to take an input wave file for the base
> line,
> > then shift it appropriately and write it back to disk as a separate wave
> > file, using more disk space and creating more problems at the app level
> > dealing with yet another wave file to be read and played back.
>
> This already exists in the form of Steve Harris's "pitch scaler"
> LADSPA plugins. In fact, the algorithm used in freqtweak is based
> on the one in Steve's (ripped right out of there in fact).
>
> Time-stretching is a showstopper for LADSPA however since
> #samples must equal #samples out..... I think this has been
> discussed before....
>
> jlc
>
>
>
>
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