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Nearly anything sounds beautiful when it’s spectrally smoothed and lengthened 50x by Paulstretch, including the most irritating pop song you can name off the to

• wintermutestwin 5y ago
  Good point. I wonder how much of the beauty is due to the interesting SW approach vs. the speed. Here is an interesting discussion with the creator: https://web.archive.org/web/20120217161857/http://www.microscopics.co.uk/blog/2010/paulstretch-an-interview-with-paul-nasca/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120217161857/http://www.micros...
• corporealfunk 5y ago
  I haven't played with Paulstretch, but it looks similar to what Tom Erbe's "Soundhack" program did (windowed FFT with overlap add resynthesis). Soundhack was originally written in the late 90's and was used by the sound designers of The Matrix.. anyhow. Soundhack is now defunct, but Tom released the source and I ported the time stretching bit of the software to Go if anyone's interested: https://github.com/corporealfunk/gopvoc https://github.com/corporealfunk/gopvoc