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jquaint • last Wednesday at 6:08 AM • 8 replies • view on HN

Great song.

For anyone curious how to produce something that sounds like this, paulstretch is the way to do it. https://sonosaurus.com/paulxstretch/

My personal favorite use of this: https://youtu.be/XiKWfcy-Z70?si=iJTP0XTEAAObI_rU

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jchw • last Wednesday at 1:24 PM

And if you happen to already have a copy of Audacity, it has an implementation of paulstretch built-in. (Certainly not as nice looking as that dedicated tool, though.)

jedimastert • last Wednesday at 11:20 AM

Paulstretch is such an utterly genius algorithm. Ridiculously simple solution to a difficult problem but it gets you amazing results

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isoprophlex • last Wednesday at 8:51 AM

This is just excellent, it works a lot better than I thought it would. You can really drown in the song, whoa.

    aaaallllll
    myyyyyy
    paaaasssstt
    aaaaaaandd
    fuuuttuurrreeesss
I'll add that there's a lot of extremely timestretched tracks from Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works II on youtube as well. They all sound glorious, too
corry • last Wednesday at 4:09 PM

Great share, thank you! Scratches the itch of "I'd love to turn some of my beats into ambient soundscapes but don't want to spend the time".

Ylpertnodi • last Wednesday at 11:16 AM

Less distructive, but also -the [vst3] plugin 'valhalla supermassive'.

pbmahol • last Wednesday at 6:35 AM

The paulxstretch completely obliterates phase component of audio input. Its not really way to do it if you want real output.

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keyle • last Wednesday at 6:14 AM

Mind blown. Thanks!

barrenko • last Wednesday at 6:10 AM

Ah yes, pop some ketamine, turn this one, and never return.