[LAU] high quality time strech

[drew Roberts]

On Wednesday 07 November 2007 15:45:35 Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> On 7 November 2007 at 15:34, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 21:28 +0100, Atte André Jensen wrote:
> > I have a live recording (acoustic jazz) where the engineer
> > messed up, so I need to copy some audio from one part to
> > another. The problem is that the band drifted in tempo during,
> > so I'm looking for a high quality time stretch that works under
> > linux.
> >
> > What are my options and what would you guys recommend?
> >
> > there isn't anything that can do this (yet). you might try
> > playing with SoundTouch, but it really doesn't hold a candle
> > to the timefx implementations found in most proprietary
> > applications.
>
> I'm not sure how it differs, but the time shrink/stretch stuff in
> the Snd <http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/> open source
> program seems quite a bit better to my ear than do the other open
> source time stretchers familiar in the Linux audio world.  This
> could just be my acoustic memory failing me, but I've had this
> same impression several times now.

I think (IIRC) that the Rivendell guys are putting in software time scaling 
for cards which don't support it. Rivendell can do it now for the ASI cards 
which have the ability.

I don't think this is necessarily directly helpful, but I am ignorant here and 
it might so I thought I would mention it.
>
> Best-o-luck....
>
> --
> Kevin

all the best,

drew