Paulstretch

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http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/

I'm sure some of you remember that video someone made, where he slowed down a Justin Beiber song 800%. Well, I figured since it's been a while since that video was made, and that stretching music is fun, I'd make a topic.

Remember silly putty? You could press it against a newspaper and lift off some of the ink with the putty. Then you could stretch it out and look at how funny Charlie Brown's face looked when it was elongated. That's essentially what this program does. It takes sound and allows you to elongate it, with a ton of different variables for stretching and post-process effects. You can also shorten/compress sound, but that's not as fun. :P

This works very well on most kinds of downtempo music with minimal percussion (downtempo, ambient, drone, shoegaze), and classical music. It also works pretty well with some idm and glitch.

So far, I've lengthened Outh9x by Autechre from 7 minutes to an hour, and Foilage Pathway by Secede from 5 minutes to 22 minutes.

Outh9x sounds very eerie, Foilage Pathway sounds cool until the theremin-sounding-stuff comes in.

Just a heads up: It renders in HQ wav, so the files are massive. Outh9x turned out to be 500gb. Make sure you don't use up all your space!