TimeFactory 2 (I'd like to add to the LOCKED thread)

[Eric Seaberg]

I'm a OSX user and LOVE TimeFactory. On my G5 and TiBook running Tiger, it works great in Classic and does what I need it to do in the background. I would like it to be OSX workable, but I'd rather wait for Prosoniq to do it WHEN THEY'RE READY, knowing it will be great!


Anyway.... I felt I needed to respond to all of the complaining in the original thread!

[mobilegazer]

yes, i'm looking forward to it, too Prosoniq's stretching algorithms are the only ones i find decent on critical material.

[TBR]

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Try Serato's Pitch' Time. It's perhaps even better then Prosoniq and multiChannel phase coherent.

wart

[mobilegazer]

no, i don't think its better. actually i think serato sounds rather phased/flanged....but your mileage may vary.

[neuronaut]

TimeFactory is also multichannel phase coherent (ever was since version 1.0). Serato doesn't really work very well with voice and other musically monophonic sound sources and its quality varies greatly on polyphonic sounds.

Btw. if you like the Serato time stretch I recommend you try the software AU Lab that comes with MacOS X Tiger. It contains a proprietary Apple time stretching which is comparable to the Serato algorithm (although a little bit different and better wrt. smearing) and it's completely free!

It really isn't recommendable for "pro" usage but if you just need a quick time stretch it's quite good.

--smb

[tahome]

no, i don't think its better. actually i think serato sounds rather phased/flanged....but your mileage may vary.

Yes, same here. I never managed to get good results with Pitch'n Time. It always gave me a lot of flanging and reverb artefacts.

--th

[TBR]

TimeFactory is also multichannel phase coherent (ever was since version 1.0)

That's new to me, please explain how, does it accept multichannel BWF or AIF (and by multichannel I mean more then 2)
I'm only time-stretching + or - 4% to makeup for the 24/25 fps issue between film and television. If I compare the Pitch-Shifter from Pyramix (Prosoniq MPEX3) with Serato and TimeFactory I like the TimeFactory best, then Serato and then MPEX3 (they all do an excellent job, but there are subtile differences) And since I thought TimeFactory only worked on stereo files, I favored Serato.

best/wart

[neuronaut]

MPEX (the time stretching used in Timefactory and Pyramix, Nuendo, and others) is multichannel savvy. I am fairly sure that TimeFactory has an option to open multiple files as one multichannel file but I can't check this from where I am right now...

--smb

[TBR]

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ok... it does accept (only) multichannel AIF files. (aif doesn't support time code and other meta data; mmmmmm)
so timeFactory will be my new favorite then.


GROET/wart

[billyy2288]

TimeFactory is also multichannel phase coherent (ever was since version 1.0)

That's new to me, please explain how, does it accept multichannel BWF or AIF (and by multichannel I mean more then 2)
I'm only time-stretching + or - 4% to makeup for the 24/25 fps issue between film and television. If I compare the Pitch-Shifter from Pyramix (Prosoniq MPEX3) with Serato and TimeFactory I like the TimeFactory best, then Serato and then MPEX3 (they all do an excellent job, but there are subtile differences) And since I thought TimeFactory only worked on stereo files, I favored Serato.

best/wart

I also think so.

[neuronaut]

This is out of date information referring to a very old thread (from 2006!)... TimeFactory accepts BWF and multi channel files/groups of files just fine. You need to have the latest version though (2.3.5 currently). It also offers ClearScale which has pretty much the same sonic properties as the Serato phase vocoder (even though it works differently).

--smb