Client Says: "Can we speed this song up?"

[DannyMac]

Title track/theme to sopranoes by Alabama 3 was speeded up from the original. Not sure what was used, but have one of the master tapes.

[AlphaDingo]

melodyne.

[Beermaster]

I often have clients asking me to speed up the track even when they've given me a reference track which is at an identical tempo !

You don't have to increase the BPM to give a feeling of increased speed this can be achieved in many ways without touching BPM setting:

1. speed and movement of the bass line. changing the meter of the bass groove and syncopating the movement.

2. changing the drum track to feel faster by adding double time elements on hats/shakers or even adding a second drum loop or programmed beats that give the feel of double time or exciting cross rhythms - also re-programming the existing core rhythm to sync in with the new bass line also turbos the track.

3. changing the meter of other accompanying parts and riffs to feel faster.

All of this can make a huge difference and still let you use your original vocals tracks and life overdubs as IS !

[Ameyerson]

if you are clocking internally, you can varispeed on the session setup page.
Enjoy

[davey boy]

I just recently had to do this with a song done in DP. I exported to PT LE and used elastic audio. Worked like a champ. I was initially worried about hearing artifacts on the multitracked drums and acoustic gtr but it wasn't a problem. I think I sped the song up something like 5 bpm or so. I've also used Pitch n Time and Xorm (for tempo and pitch).

[jwh1192]

analog tape would be your best bet ... would have to be one with varispeed ....

[MusicHurtsMyEars]

'Speed' by SoundToys is also a great plug-in for this.

I had to change the tempo of one song, and the key of another song on a big band session, and Speed worked just fine.

[Lawrence]

Another option is to import the stems into Reaper and change the playback rate of each media item / track and export new stems. It uses Elastique Pro and the playrate feature works great. Audition the speed change in realtime and then render the individual stems at the new rate.

It will render all of the stems in one pass at the same time at the new rate. Then import them back into Pro Tools or whatever daw you're working in and get back to work. I use it with Cubase for that kind of thing.

Here's a sample of the quality:

Original: http://theaudiocave.com/ewf1.mp3

10% faster: http://theaudiocave.com/ewf2.mp3

It's as easy as drag selecting all the audio in the project, changing the playrate (1.1000 = 110% etc) and render all tracks to stems. Pitching works just as well.

Original pitched up 2 semitones: http://theaudiocave.com/ewf3.mp3

Probably cheaper and as good or better quality than most any plug that can do that. Cubase has Elastique Pro as well but you have to render them one at a time, realtime preview is very poor, and Reaper's final quality is a touch better. Handy tool.