Rubberband, pitch-shifting

[ghost]

Hi! I've been slicing the Amen Break and created multiple instruments from the slices (mainly 1/2 and 1/4 beats). As there are multiple slices for any particular hit I layered them and use random selection for the layer played. Thanks to Rubberband, I can recreate this break at any tempo without gaps between the slices and it doesn't sound the same twice! I have a few suggestions:

• Being able to stretch with or without pitch-shifting automatically according to the tempo. If the sample is shortened to 0.8 of its original length, it should be possible to pitch-shift it accordingly (ie freq*1/0.8). Like just changing the playback speed of the sample. It would be useful to get that jungle/Drum and Bass sound from a slow break or normal drum samples
• Being able to apply the same Rubberband options to all layers in a simple way
• Being able to adjust the pitch of and instrument with a single knob (+-24 semitones and +- 50 cents, next to the random pitch knob maybe?)

Thanks for this great software anyway! Barbouze

[oddtime]

Being able to adjust the pitch of and instrument with a single knob (+-24 semitones and +- 50 cents, next to the random pitch knob maybe?)

done!

[trebmuh]

done!

where? (which commit/branch?)

[theGreatWhiteShark]

Being able to apply the same Rubberband options to all layers in a simple way

@oddtime Do you know if we support Rubberband by now? The output of cmake does still suggest that there are problems and the feature is experimental

[oddtime]

@trebmuh

where? (which commit/branch?)

1000

@theGreatWhiteShark

Do you know if we support Rubberband by now? The output of cmake does still suggest that there are problems and the feature is experimental

Don't know, I haven't installed it

[oddtime]

I am not aware of the current use of Rubberband in H2, but I cannot see any reference to it in Sampler.cpp, maybe the note pitch property is always handled with the "doppler" style resampling?

However cmake .. tells me rubberband not found, but I am able to use rubberband in each layer sampler editor. I have a question about this dialog: it seems that I must select a value in "Sample length to beat" if I want to change the pitch. I would expect rubberband allowing to vary pitch without change the sample length.

[theGreatWhiteShark]

I am not aware of the current use of Rubberband in H2, but I cannot see any reference to it in Sampler.cpp, maybe the note pitch property is always handled with the "doppler" style resampling?

ack "[R|r]ubberband" hydrogen/src gives me a couple of hits in the Sample class.

However cmake .. tells me rubberband not found, but I am able to use rubberband in each layer sampler editor. I have a question about this dialog: it seems that I must select a value in "Sample length to beat" if I want to change the pitch. I would expect rubberband allowing to vary pitch without change the sample length.

I think this likely is one of those features a developer loved to have and developed only to such degree it worked on her or his machine and not in a general sense. Maybe the precompiler guards aren't properly checked and the GUI looks the same whether or not Rubberband was found. It probably needs to be revisited and fixed at some point.