#pitchstretch

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Roland VP-9000 DVD Video Tutorial

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Time Stretching on the ASR 10

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Introducing iZotope Iris Time Stretching VST plugin

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Hardware and Software that allow for Midi Playable Elastic Audio .. or Time-stretch

You only have so many choices when it comes to Timestretch sampling engines that you can play as an instrument. Lets talk hardware first. The Ensoniq ASR10 will do it. The Roland VP-9000 and the Roland V-synth series. The VP-9000 uses the same technology as the later V-synth's. The ASR10 by Ensoniq we have talked about in a prior post in more detail. Those are your hardware choices that are readily available. In software you have Izotope Iris, and the stretch engine in Kontakt. There maybe more but I cant think of any right now. Izotope Iris is the most immediate and modern. I highly recommend Iris it will allow you to take any single sound and immediately play it without hours of programming. The ASR10 has the fattest sound and is probably the most desirable for Hip-Hop productions. The VP-9000 is purpose built for this kind of Elastic Pitch Stretching and tends to have less of the mickey mouse effect in the higher registers. The difference between the V-synth and the VP-9000 is that while they use the same engine for timestretch the V-synth has thousands of other design functions.