Resynthesis with Paul Stretch
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- So I first heard Paul Stretch a few years ago via Matrixsynth.com. It was stretching the sound of a 56k dial up modem connecting to an ISP (those where the days). It occurred to me at the time with this utility you could turn any sound into a pad or a very very ..very long drone! I thought I would show you some examples today!
Paul Stretch is now one of the effects in Audacity which makes it the easiest its ever been to use :D
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Thanks Paul, Mister Stretch, or whoever invented it. Love it.
Indeed, great fun and awesome sounds :D
I’ve been fascinated by Paul stretching and could watch people experiment over it for days.
It for sure bring a very unique texture from in input sound :D
@@100ThingsIDo I would paulstretch me saying things, and then realized my AC in the background had this INSANELY cool effect of the blades going to where you could hear each individual swoosh. (It's a window unit) Started doing stuff with that and my god it was cool.
I've been meaning to try Paul Stretch for ages. Thanks for tickling my motivation gland.
Heya BM, Its worth playing with for sure :D Seen some of your meme's recently on FB i suspect :D
This my all-time favourite effect in Audacity. I can't help but paulstretch everything I import into the software, it's become an obsession at this point lol
I have been making drones recently, short 30 second ones then stretching them out to 10 minutes and using them as beds for the rest of a track. I always feel there is a mix between trampolining the sound and stitching back together it does that is pure magic :D
@@100ThingsIDo You hit the nail on the head with the last sentence. It's exactly what it feels like hahah
So much kit out there to make sounds; and you always seem to have the latest. I look forward to hearing those sounds in future songs
hehe, the software videos never seem to do well... but are worth doing for those that go looking :D
Found it! :D - This is great. Such a simple thing can make a huge difference to your project! Awesome work!
Indeed :D
I always like experimenting with the Stretch in Audacity. Even a single spoken word can turn into something interesting. Love those chimes, btw!
Thanks :D indeed, worlds of sound in the most basic words :D
Been using it for sound design for a while now......Incredible app...
Didnt know until now its part of Audacity ....
Put's me in my mind of a Fairlight or Synclavier, which I see are part of your arsenal too. Lofi with the samples stretched across the octaves, but sort of more effective because of that. Nice. I'll dig up Paul Stretch and search through the mountain of sample I have on various hard drives for inspiration. Thanks for reminding me of this.
It's always worth trying this for inspiration! :D Thanks for the comment!
Oh, man, I really want to sample every single one of those. I don't know whether it's just good sample choice or if Paulstretch is just that good.
Best to try it out yourself and see :D
Thanks for this, proved very helpful in composing my first dark ambient piece. Curious, what keyboard input did you use during this video?
Hey there, It would be the Nord Lead 2x I use as my main controller :D
Cool free plugin. Great results. They sound like from a PD or FM synth. Thx
Yep, you can get some awesome results with it. Give really short samples a try for a totally different world :D
I use Paulstretch already a long time. The only disadvantage is that it always adds a kind of reverb effect when stretching heavy.
Indeed! Sometimes thats great.. sometimes not so great. Check out my "Pan Lid" video for a reverb free alternative :D
4:26 - sounds like the opening to Autechre's remix of Coils Dark River
Reprocessing sound can be amazing and surprising :D
Thanks for the video! You can be very creative that way! :D Need to get this! :)
Thanks Ken! Its a great little tool for taking something quite mundane and making the most awesome texture from :D Hope you enjoy!
Hello!
I am Marco from Slovakia and I also use many times Paul stretch effect.
I have a question.
What type of sampler do You use?
Thank You.
Best regards
Marco Oros
Hi there Marco, In this clip I used the Logic EXS built in sampler (now just called Sampler). Hardware wise I have 2 Fairlights , a EMU EMax II, EPS Ensoniq, EPS Mirage and a few others :D
Love your videos!
Thanks Juno :D Appreciate the feedback!
the glass sounded fucking majestic wow
Anything that has a reverberant quality always comes across well with stretch :D
I've downloaded Paulstretch a while ago and it's in my app folder since, but I realy should take some time and dig into it seriously, it seems to be a realy nice tool.
(sorry if I dig in your YT channel as well, I'me exploring it since my recent subscribtion! :-) )
No problem at all.. Its also built into Audacity these days .. a lot easier to use in there also ! :D
@@100ThingsIDo I said b...llsh...t, Paulstretch is not in my app folder, actualy it's living quietly in my component folder as an AU plugin for Logic. It's the definitive proof I've never realy played with it seriously 😀.
Can anyone tell me what is resynthesis is?
Good question, there is quite a bit of debate about this by I am using the term in the form of taking the elements that make up the sound and manipulating them to make a new and different sound with some of the original source present. in this case Synthesis = the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity, resynthesis is the act of synthesizing something again : a second or subsequent synthesis. Hope this helps :D
@@100ThingsIDo Yes now I have a clear view on this.
The world synthesis thing is very obscure; very difficult to find information on.
@@aakashchakrabarty4262 Indeed, as you might of seen in the comments people have very firm views on what resynthesis means as much as polyphony and Paraphony :D
Interesting
Great :D
Dreamcast sound 3:00
haha! never noticed :D
On dirait de la synthèse granulaire
À certains égards, son très similaire :D
Sorry but there is no resynthesis being apllied in this video at all. Only (creative) sample treatment. All this could and was already done with early 80ties sampling keyboards. Maybe interpolation plays a part here to lengthening the sound by inserting intermediate samples in stead of just playing the original sample slower, thus avoiding loss of high frequency content but that still does not make it resynthesis, at least not in my book. At best it makes it morphing. Resynthesis means that a sound sample is analyzed and then recreated in such a way that all parameters can be modified individually. The best present example probably being Alchemy in Logic X, which uses additive and spectral engines to resynthesize the sound. The promise of resynthesis is that any sound can be fully controlled in real time. The downside however is that it is difficult for most people to grasp all ramifications of that concept and even more difficult to offer a user interface that is intuïtive. The better practical compromise probably is granular sampling. So nothing wrong with this video as such but please do not call a cow a horse.
Hi Marc, thanks for the in depth comment. I am using the term resynthesis in its basic form, breaking a sound down and remaking it. Paulstreach adds a lot of unique artefacts (quite often sounding very similar to reverberation) due to the way it processes the sound. Maybe more accidental synthesis might be more correct :D If you check out Synclavier V it has a quite easy way of turning any sound into FM synthesis. I use Alchemy quite a lot for what it can do to samples and sounds.. Still can't get the spectral side figured out!
@@100ThingsIDo Thank you for taking my comment so sportingly. Although I do not use Alchemy myself (Me only use hardware, ugh!) I have studied it quite closely though and I might be able to solve your confusion about the spectral function. In principle pure additive synthesis can perfectly resynthesize all sounds. The noisy artefacts in an original sound would however gobble up quite a high number of additional virtual sine oscillators because noise is very broadband (White noise contains all frequencies in the audio spectrum). So to keep the processor load down they have added the spectral bit which is good at that sort of thing (I suppose it adds complex real time comb filtered noise). If you want to use it effectively you can select both additive and spectral analysis during the resynthesis analysis porcess of the original sound. With spectral added the resynthesized sounds tend to be closer to the original sample, especilly if they are not strictly musical. Try it with speech for instance.
@@100ThingsIDo P.S.: I have had another look at Paul stretch. In the main screen the term "stretch multiplier" is used. That might be a dead giveaway. What the program probabaly does is repeat existing sample words. So it might actually not interpolate at all but just repeats original sample words before going to the next ones. So slowing 5 times means repeating every word 5 times. How it soes multiplications with decimals in it I do not know. Maybe it simply cheats a bit by repeating some words les often then others. The nice thing about this method is that it indeed keeps all overtones on the same frequency while traditional slowing down or speeding up leads to all sorts of Godzilla and munchkin effects. That reverb seems to be added does also make sense. Not only are the reverb times lengthened at the same rate as the stretching, (so a 1 second delay or reverb becomes a 5 second one when the length is multplied with 5) but the method I describe above will also introduce a sort of extra shimmering effect that deepens the perception of reverb. So if I am correct it is cheating alright but in a very musical way! :-)
I think I have sent you down the Rabbit hole :D I remember we chatted a few years ago, do you still have the CS-80 ?
@@100ThingsIDo To those who have never been there what I write might sound far out but it is all based on how sound / music technology actually works. So whose rabbit hole are we talking about here, eh? :-) And yeah, you are right. Something was also ringing in the back of my mind. Still have that CS80. Now you know what owning one can do to you. So beware!
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Хвала :D
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Its a big sound machine for sure :D
xenakios.wordpress.com/paulxstretch-plugin/ plugin version :)
I'll have to give it a try.. Not so sure how you would use it as a real time effect :D
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The 'unlike' is a very strange metric... I really wish UA-cam would force someone to leave a comment if they Unlike so you know what they did not like so you can try and address it :D
i guess someone needs to look up whast resynthesis actually is.
The combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity :D
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yes, but your video shows the technique of sampling.
This is not resynthesis
Listen really carefully, there is more going on than just expansion :D