Elastic Time absolutely rocks!!

[dcrann11]

Best new Pro tools feature in a long time - fantastic work Digi

[octatonic]

I'm a bit underwhelmed actually.

There is still no easy way to loop regions- you have to use ''duplicate' which is clunky and slow compared to how logic manages it.
The algorithms are pretty good- but I had an error trying to use Speed as the elastic algorithm.

[octatonic]

Originally Posted by Bryan Talbot

Can you not use the Trim tool in Loop mode?

ehrm... maybe this is user error then.
I'll give it a go. Thx.

[CaptainHook]

I just edited a song that took me 2 hours last night in beat detective, and
was done in 3 minutes.

I'm still shitting my pants.

[CaptainHook]

Originally Posted by octatonic

There is still no easy way to loop regions- you have to use ''duplicate'

I've always used 'repeat'.

Highlight the area with the regions you want to 'loop', press option/alt+r and type
in how many times you want it to repeat.

[Tony Shepperd]

Jim, one of the cool things about Pro Tools is there is about 3 ways to do everything.
You can Command + D
You can right click on a region and have an exact number of duplicates.
Or you can use the use the duplicate command to get an exact number of duplicates.

[picksail]

Originally Posted by Tony Shepperd

Jim, one of the cool things about Pro Tools is there is about 3 ways to do everything.
You can Command + D
You can right click on a region and have an exact number of duplicates.
Or you can use the use the duplicate command to get an exact number of duplicates.

Yep.

You can also hi-light a region and hold Option+Click/Drag.

And what's more, I use all four of these methods for a variety of applications.

[PlatinumSamples]

Originally Posted by octatonic

I'm a bit underwhelmed actually.

There is still no easy way to loop regions- you have to use ''duplicate' which is clunky and slow compared to how logic manages it.

Uh.. how about the "LOOP REGION" command ?

Option-Command-L (Mac) or Alt-Ctrl-L (Windows)

Rail

[C.Lambrechts]

LOL ... let's rename the thread 'How do I loop a region in PT'.



anyhow ... yeah ... ELASTIC TIME does kick rear ends.


Yesterday I was playing around with varispeed .... you know ... old school tricks like slowing down the 'tape' to sing a few high notes and then speed it up to tempo on playback.

With 7.4 everyone can be Mika.

[Stiff]

Originally Posted by octatonic

ehrm... maybe this is user error then.
I'll give it a go. Thx.

Off the top of my head there's three effective ways to do this:

Repeat (cmnd+r I believe).
Duplicate like you mentioned.
The loop tool.

Works for me, but hey, everyones workflow is different

I've been trying to find something to rack down on elastic audio for a couple of hours, but the damned thing just plain WORKS!

[picksail]

Elastic Audio has completely changed my workflow within ProTools.

I am totally in love with this thing!!!

[pigcat]

Just watched the video. Man, how it is possible to stretch just 1 beat into 2 bars without artifacts? This is incredible...I'm going to upgrade now...

[KEYBEEETSSS]

Hey slutz I did a track for the heck of it & ran it thru Elastic time just to have a li' fun with it...did it (EA) in a matter of 5min. but it turned out pretty kool....It's the 1ST track on my Myspace...JUS SO U'LL KNOW I am versatile & just as I stated did that for fun, PLEASE also listen or glance @ the rest of my music on there....

[macleodgrant]

i posted this in another thread but may help someone here

i did EA on an entire drum track and my findings were as below rendered with X-FORM. real-time or rendered with rhythmic or polyphonic i got extra hits or some hits were a bit earlier or later but X-FORM appeared to be very accurate

my process was to analyse the transients individually for the snare, kick, toms and then group the drums and go over the entire drum track and manually warp the transients to the grid, listening to each edit. sometimes i had to just shift a tom or snare forward or back ungrouped and this worked well

i noticed that the kick drum sounded seriously smeared so after i EA'd the entire drum track, i tabbed to transient for each kick drum and replaced them with the best of the non-elastic audio original kick
this made the track sound alot more natural with a lot of depth

i was able to do all this in about 8 hours but then it was perfect and i am a real perfectionist with this kind of thing

NOTE: i noticed that EA worked better with less warp markers and i got unexpected results otherwise. e.g. i prefer to leave the transient untouched and just warp the sustain part but when i did this i got weird artifacts. EA worked best when the entire transient with sustain was stretched - i think the algorithm expects a transient at a warp marker

[007]

While I love my recent switch from PT to Logic, I can't believe the latter still doesn't have such real-time stretching features like Ableton Live/PT...