Elastic Time in Pro Tools 7.4
OK, Pro Tools 7.4 is just around the corner… looking like November release…and I’ll tell ya it’s got some cool new features for sure. Elastic Time. Nice. It’s pretty slick. And from what I could tell on the AES showroom floor, it sounds pretty good too.
Elastic Time is several time compression/expansion algorithms that enable real-time elasticity of audio regions. You can change the tempo and timing of any audio file… but that’s not new, except that you can do it in real-time now. You can audition audio files from Digibase and have them playback in sync with the session before importing them. When you do import them, they automatically conform to the session tempo.
But the coolest part is that you can apply quantization to the audio files VERY easily and you can use Warp track view and Warp markers to really mess up the timing/tempo of the audio files.
The Identify Beat command and Beat Detective will have MUCH less use now. Pro Tools has brought some of the best features of Ableton Live in and gave them their own Digi spin. I think it’ll be really powerful. I can’t wait to use it.
