I saw this in my emailbox yesterday! Was thinking of having a play about with it sometime next week. Is it any good? 😃

Haven't tried it yet. But from what I've seen so far, it works really well for atmospheric pads or some more experimental sounds. Maybe the closest to it would be the Spectral Mode from Padshop

I tried this the other day and the stretching engine on this is quite good. Slows things down for lush ambient pads without sounding too metallic or hollow (which I have noticed with the stock Ableton granular device). And the stacks mode with shifted harmonics is also quite awesome. It’s quite a fun tool to play with.

@Ka Motchy - Ahh cool, I absolutely adore Padshop, it's one of my favorite synths for atmousphereics. I was getting deep into granular synthasis ages ago, and when they came out with padshop it was exactly the synth I had been dreaming would exsist whilst using other granular synths.

@Sachin Shrestha - Paul stretch had the best algorythem (also free) for loong stretches (like you could time stretch a minute into 100k years if you had the HD space lmfao!) for the longest time. Some other really good ones are coming out in the last few years, but he did paul stretch like nearly 2 decades ago in it's first form, maybe longer! It was well before it's time, but had such a clunky GUI and wasn't a VST, only standalone, so was even more of a pain to use as you had to inport and export, and getting thigns to line up if trying to stretch 4x for example was really hard to do. However ever since audacity implamented it into their free software it's been getting better and better and easier to use, as there's been VST's that utilise the same algo like paul stretch x I think was in a vst (an updated version of the same algo). You should check it out if you like long etherial sounding things and for the longest time this algo was the ONLY one that didn't sound like time was being ripped apart, and sounded smooth as there was overlapping of the samples or something (I'm guessing).

I love Paul Stretch too! Have played with it over the years and done some fun stuff (stretched out Vivaldi Four Seasons and made a whole different track with that vibe). The vst plug-in form is also quite useful now.

Haha, cool! Yeah I did the same thing and stretched out a track to 4x the length and remixed it. I think when someone first finds paul stretch (at least back then) the first thing they wanna do with it after playing about and stretching something to multiple hours long is either make a crazy pad, or stretch out a track and make something new from it lol.