Pitch & Time-Stretching Software Choices??

jdjustice · 4th August 2006

Hello. I am looking to purchase software for pitch-adjustment and time-stretching capability. There seem to be three products on the market, and I cannot get all three demoed, but they are:

Waves SoundShifter
Serato Pitch 'n Time Pro
Celemony Melodyne3 Studio

Does anyone have experience with these programs and care to comment on their sound and usefulness?

Thanks.

J.D.

Berolzheimer · 4th August 2006

Pitch 'n Time and Speed are both pretty good.

horseface · 4th August 2006

I absolutely love Melodyne. A lot.

jbuntz · 4th August 2006

Melodyne is easy, has a great interface, sounds good, makes perfect sense musically when using it. Waves is okay but much less powerful. Haven't used serrato.

adrianex · 4th August 2006

I use Pitch and Time more than Speed, I've worked with melodyne a little bit, but no enought to recomend it

manning1 · 4th August 2006

justice...
powertracks that i use has these features in ...but ive never used them mutch except for fixing the occasional vocal note pitch.
pgmusic.com for demo. its 50 buks and is a complete recording/multitracking/midi software studio. give it a try sometime. the range of recording features is very vast.

jdjustice · 7th August 2006

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OVERNIGHT · 7th August 2006

I logged on tonight to find an answer to the same question. Only, I have logic 7.2 so I've used Pitch & Time plenty and all I can say is that I'm seriously looking for something else. The time stretching is atrocious beyond 1 or 2 bpm. I used to work on Nuendo and it had absolutely excellent time stretch built-in. I'm seriously considering buying Melodyn becasue the Serato is just not cuttin' it.

AB3 · 7th August 2006

For time stretching, Wavelab 6.0 is excellent.

jdjustice · 10th September 2006

how do you guys like this software? on first listen IMO it is a formidable competitor to Pitch 'N Time and SPEED.... haven't had the chance to use Waves' SoundShifter...

it's great that Digi has released these two free tools lately (meaning Time Shift and the Inspection tools)... negates the need to spend hundreds on 3rd party software!

J.D.

4th August 2006	#1
jdjustice Lives for gear Joined: Mar 2006 Location: US Posts: 2,361 Thread Starter	Pitch & Time-Stretching Software Choices?? Hello. I am looking to purchase software for pitch-adjustment and time-stretching capability. There seem to be three products on the market, and I cannot get all three demoed, but they are: Waves SoundShifter Serato Pitch 'n Time Pro Celemony Melodyne3 Studio Does anyone have experience with these programs and care to comment on their sound and usefulness? Thanks. J.D. __________________ Justin Justice

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adrianex Lives for gear Joined: May 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 753	I use Pitch and Time more than Speed, I've worked with melodyne a little bit, but no enought to recomend it __________________ Adrian Morales-Demori www.heigaaudiovisual.com www.ingeniousrecords.com

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manning1 Lives for gear Joined: May 2004 Location: canada Posts: 3,998	justice... powertracks that i use has these features in ...but ive never used them mutch except for fixing the occasional vocal note pitch. pgmusic.com for demo. its 50 buks and is a complete recording/multitracking/midi software studio. give it a try sometime. the range of recording features is very vast. __________________ i'm just a dumb computer engr (ret'd)...."quantum computing is the future" running a native software studio daw...Powertracks and Reaper on amd. new cockney album released http://therockingbloodbrothers.blogspot.com/ my other little songs www.motagator.com/bmanning

7th August 2006	#8
OVERNIGHT Gear addict Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 437	I logged on tonight to find an answer to the same question. Only, I have logic 7.2 so I've used Pitch & Time plenty and all I can say is that I'm seriously looking for something else. The time stretching is atrocious beyond 1 or 2 bpm. I used to work on Nuendo and it had absolutely excellent time stretch built-in. I'm seriously considering buying Melodyn becasue the Serato is just not cuttin' it. __________________ 47.6% of all statistics on the internet are made up on the spot.

10th September 2006	#10
jdjustice Lives for gear Joined: Mar 2006 Location: US Posts: 2,361 Thread Starter	DigiRack Time Shift how do you guys like this software? on first listen IMO it is a formidable competitor to Pitch 'N Time and SPEED.... haven't had the chance to use Waves' SoundShifter... it's great that Digi has released these two free tools lately (meaning Time Shift and the Inspection tools)... negates the need to spend hundreds on 3rd party software! J.D.

4th August 2006	#2
Berolzheimer Lives for gear Joined: Dec 2002 Location: El Lay Posts: 2,209	Pitch 'n Time and Speed are both pretty good.

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horseface Gear maniac Joined: Jul 2006 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 196	I absolutely love Melodyne. A lot.

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jbuntz Lives for gear Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,716	Melodyne is easy, has a great interface, sounds good, makes perfect sense musically when using it. Waves is okay but much less powerful. Haven't used serrato.

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AB3 Lives for gear Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 3,620	For time stretching, Wavelab 6.0 is excellent.

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