BEHIND THE SCENES OF TIME STRETCHING

Different people think differently. Yet, it seems the time stretching and pitch shifting capabilities of software vendors like Cubase, Ableton, and Fruity Loops aren't so different at all. The elastic audio properties of their products are all based on identical technology provided by a third party: Zplane - a company based in Berlin, Germany. Their client list also includes Mackie (Tracktion), Native Instruments (Traktor) and XTsoftware (energyXT).

The complete list of companies who use this technology, called élastique SDK, is available at Zplanes website. You'll also find the following company description there: "As a technology and service provider Zplane development offers extensive know-how for digital audio signal processing solutions. Zplane is a research-focused company, providing state-of-the-art technology and know-how in a commercial context. They focus on intelligent signal processing solutions like artifact-free time stretching and pitch shifting and on music analysis technology, dealing with the extraction of high-level musical information from the music signal. New technologies are immediately made available to our customers in form of ready-to-use SDKs."

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