A feature to change the pitch of a sample without stretching it would be very useful. Maybe it could be added together with the pitch stretch and time stretch features? I guess it’s already there more or less.
Some times your working with a sample and later realize it’s a little out of tune when you start adding other instruments, would be great if there was a feature that let you change the pitch but have the length remain the same.
With a bit of simple maths, you can do this using the Timestretch feature.
Timetretching something by 200% will make it twice as long.
If you play back the timestretched file an octave higher, it would be the same length as the original, but an octave higher in pitch.
So, all you need to do is divide 100% by 12 to work out the timestretch values for individual semitones.
100/12=8.33
Let’s say you want to pitch something by +2 semitones.
Timestretch the sample by 100+(8.33*2)=116.66%
Assign the timestretched sample to a Pad and set Transpose to +2.00st
Voila, pitch shifting.
Fun fact, this is the technique used by jungle artists to ‘play’ pitched breakbeats. They would repeat this process several times and map the same break to different keys at different pitches, but all playing back at the same tempo. It sounds wild
Yes you could do it that way. But it would be a lot easier if there was a specific feature for this so you don’t have to do math to just pitch a sample a few cents.
Also you will loose your slicing when time stretching so you would have to redo that.
Just watched a video of a chopped Amen break spread across the pads pitch shifted, sample length unchanged, on MPC Live. Got me searching for a simple way to do it on the 2400, would be a very useful feature!
I’m also interested s2400 workarounds for the more trackerstyle fx, like increasing note repeat volume, reverses, pitch drops etc. Dirtywave M8 keeps pulling at me, but I’ve committed myself to the S2400
Can’t you just pitch it to where you want it and then time stretch it to the tempo you want? Do it at various pitches if need be and put them all in the same mute group so they choke each other. Would also give you a lot of flexibility with all the multi modes per each re-pitched/stretched variation.
If it’s real time pitch/time stretching I doubt that will ever come because I’m pretty sure that’s very processor heavy. Maybe somehow with a plugin on the DSP card? But I have no idea how that would work and if it’s even possible.
Yeah if I’m reading what they want correctly it sounds like they want real time time stretching (or real time warping as it’s called in some places, like Ableton and MPC).
Thats probably not gonna happen here. Maybe someone could make a secondary sampler module for the DSP card but I doubt the requested feature would work natively in the S2400.