[LAU] Sample Manager & Apps That Support Elastic Time?

[Paul Davis]

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Louigi Verona <louigi.verona at gmail.com> wrote:
> What is elastic time then? How is it different from time stretching?

fundamentally, its no different. but the term as i've seen it used by
digi, steinberg, cakewalk etc. refers to a more seamless integration
of it into the DAW workflow. i have to admit that when i saw a demo of
the first version of PT to do this, i was totally blown away. just
what digi had done with the GUI alone made me sweat profusely thinking
about how much work it would be. one example i saw was taking a female
vocal line, putting two markers around a particular section of vocals
and then stretching/compressing them in time by moving the markers.
rubberband can do this kind of thing, but in the demo, the waveforms
and everything else move dynamically as this is done. it changes the
basic model of what a DAW is from "something that plays back bits of
audio files in a specified order" to "something that continually feeds
audio through timestretching algorithms with dynamic parameters".
doing this efficiently ... i can imagine how to do it, but sheesh, its
a huge amount of work (perhaps, as usual, more in the GUI than
anywhere else)

--p