[LAD] Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch

Patrick Shirkey pshirkey at boosthardware.com
Thu Sep 30 07:40:24 UTC 2010


On Thu, September 30, 2010 12:01 am, Louigi Verona wrote:
> Hey guys!
>
> I have two questions.
>
> 1. How does Sound Stretch work? It is incredible the way it can produce a
> tone which has no noticeable vibrations, just a wall of sound. How is that
> accomplished, in layman terms if possible :)

It grabs a section of the audio and copies/multiplies it then appears to
apply some pretty neat math to smooth it all out funnily enough using a
selection of windows to get the best result.


> 2. Can this program be jackified and is that a lot of work?
>

It uses portaudio. Doesn't that have a jack output?

Otherwise yes, he has designed it so that adding jack support would be
fairly trivial.


Cheers.



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Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.




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