Pitch 'n Time Pro Quotes

"Pitch 'n Time fills a real void in Pro Tools, it's a time/compressor/expander and high-quality pitch shifter with an intuitive interface."

- K.K. Proffitt, Audio Media, January 2000

"Pitch 'n Time" is what pitch shifters and time expanders/compressors promised to be, but could never fulfill. It is the most effective plugin in my Audiosuite arsenal (and I have a lot of them). When I am creating a track it is in constant use." ... "I'm starting to turn into some kind of a evangelist for Pitch 'n Time because I think it is a very important contribution to music and audio production."

- Pat Thrall, Hit Factory NYC

"Just wanted to let you know that I did another session last night for the George Michael project and Pitch 'n Time came through in spades. The assignment was to repitch two songs, once again, full orch, brass, horns, jazz trio, the works. The first song I had to pitch everything up a whole step and it worked perfectly. The second song had a whole step modulation which Phil Ramone decided he didn't like, so he wanted to see if I could keep it in the key of the rest of the song. Once again it worked perfectly...sounded like they never did the modulation. This plugin blows my mind every time I use it."

- Pat Thrall, Hit Factory NYC

"Hey Alan this is Teddy Riley. I'm writing to you in reference to this incredible program Pitch 'n Time. When I heard the demo at the show I was totally amazed by what it can do. For producers like myself it solves all of the problems that we have with pitch shifting, time compressing, figuring out BPM's all in one program that sounds incredibly tight and it works really fast with no problems whatsoever. I want to thank you and your team for making our lives easier. Keep up the good work and I will totally support and promote this program on to others."

-Teddy Riley, Future Recording Studios, Virginia Beach

There is only one way to describe "Pitch n Time" - unbelievable! It really is as if someone has replayed the audio. I was recently working on a new New Order track which had four tempo changes in it ranging from 98 bpm to 106 bpm. First of all we all checked out how good Pitch n Time sounded on a few different sources - bass, drums and guitar mainly. After hearing there was no change at all in sound, we were able to work on the arrangement of the song as if all the parts were midi, or as if each part had been completely replayed - no-one could believe it. What I mean by that is we were able to move drums around regardless of the tempo and their timing would stay absolutely rigid. Another thing that in the past you have never been able to time stretch using standard time stretch software is bass, you always hear a glitching juddering sound, but again Pitch n Time has no effect on sound quality whatsoever. There is another major advantage of Pitch n Time for me as I have been using Protools 5 for around 6 months as a Beta tester and have been working for around 2 years trying to use as little midi as possible. The way I do this is to create a part with a real instrument or sequencing some midi and record it as audio as soon as possible, this allows you to do funky wierd edits which have no relation to trigger points like midi, the timing is much tighter, ie. no midi delays and if you need to recall a session there is no need to connect all your samplers and synths, etc. just to alter a few levels on a mix recall, BUT there has always been the problem of committing audio at an early stage if you have not decided on a tempo or maybe even a key. This problem has been completely eliminated with Pitch n Time.

-Andy Gray. Writer/Producer, London, UK

David Lynch

David Lynch Hollywood Film Director, Says:

"Since Pitch 'n Time, My Life Is Fine!"

Hollywood Film Director David Lynch, noted for his impeccable soundtracks, has been making heavy use of Serato's Pitch 'n Time 2 in the soundtrack of his latest film, "Mulholland Drive."

David's Asymmetrical Studio is currently doing post production on the film, which is being mixed in Pro Tools TDM.

Studio manager/ chief engineer John Neff (AES) and sound effects specialist Ron Eng are mixing the film, with hands-on help and direction from Mr. Lynch. All three stems of the film (dialogue, music and effects) are employing Serato Pitch 'n Time 2, in much the same manner Mr. Lynch had used hardware pitch shifters and vari-speed tape decks in the past. The obvious benefit to Serato Pitch 'n Time 2's plug-in approach is that the effects become part of the the mix automation, "in a scientific way", according to Lynch. It is the natural sound, free of obvious artefacts, that has attracted the director to Serato Pitch 'n Time 2.

According to Lynch, only a vari-speed tape deck retained all the tone, or "the beef", until Serato Pitch 'n Time 2. Lynch says the plug-in does not make effected material thinner, as have all hardware pitch shifters and software plug-ins he has tried priorto Serato Pitch 'n Time 2. "Since Serato Pitch 'n Time, my life is fine!", said the director after gaining some experience with the multiple capabilities of the Serato Pitch 'n Time 2. Lynch uses the program for everything from slight reductions of pitch in a dialogue track to change the timbre and apparent 'size' of a character, to drastic 2 and 3 time stretching of time and lowering of pitch for music tracks. When Mr. Lynch has used Serato Pitch 'n Time 2 for effects, everyday mundane sounds can be transformed into huge unearthly ominous sound elements, to help the visuals be made more real for the viewer. Serato Pitch 'n Time 2 will also be heavily utilized in two new series going into production for Lynch's new web-site,

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