[LAD] Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch

[Dave Phillips]

Robin Gareus wrote:
>
> In layman terms:
>
> There's a smart French guy by the name of Joseph F. sitting inside it:
> If you play him some audio: He thinks: "Hey, this is actually just a few
> simple sine-waves added together (superpositioned)", he quickly
> calculates their frequencies and amplitudes and asks "Now, you want to
> change the duration?" easy: "I'll generate some new sine-waves with
> these frequencies and amplitudes, how long did you say you want?"
>
> (The smart thing about this French guy is that he actually speaks fluent
> English - Sorry I could not resist :)
>   

I recall a brief exchange on a DSP list that went something like this:

Q: Can anyone explain the FFT in simple terms ?
A. No.

I have read and understood some articles and descriptions of the FFT. 
Mark Dolson's original article on the phase vocoder (in the Computer 
Music Journal V10,#4, Winter 1986), is still a good introduction for 
computer-based musicians, though it may be a bit too technical by 
contemporary standards.

Louigi, take a look at some descriptions of what an FFT does. It does 
use "windows" but you'll have to do some homework to find out what's 
meant by the term in this context.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFT

Beware, that page is a maths page, it's not directly concerned with the 
use of the FFT in music/sound applications.

And btw, I agree wrt Paul's Extreme Stretch, it's a great tool.

Best,

dp