Speeding Up Track Question???

I have a track with about 70 tracks that I need to speed up. I would like to speed it up 5 to 10 beats per sec. I have a few midi and soft synth tracks but most are audio that I do not want to rerecord. Has anybody had success in doing this? What about digi's time compression? How much quality will I loose? Any suggestions would be great. Thanks JLE

This is one thing I've missed coming from Radar to PT. The Radar had Vari-Speed. With PT I think you'd need something with a variable sample rate (i.e. vari speed) like the Apogee Big Ben. I don't think Time Compression/Expansion is the answer. Too many artifacts the times I've used it. Digi's or Speed.

5 to 10 beats per second..... that's a major speed change. Do you mean beats per minute? Anyhow,, if you hae a sync I/O or USD you can VSO. The other option is to TCEX with digi/ Speed/ Pitch-n-Putt, etc. But if you want a 10 beat per second change,,, this isn't going to work.... Even 10 beats per min could sound bad... You can always chop up the audio and move it.. TCEX the small pieces... Or, if you really want a 600 beat per min change... ( that's what 10 beats per second would do) then start over again. T

I've done this and it works, to a point. Submitted a track to a label- we had worked long and hard on it. They wanted it but wanted it faster- argh! The way I did it was to set the new tempo on the edit window after the end of the slow version. Then I cut the first 8 bars of all the tracks and pasted them in grid mode at the new tempo spot (which of course was set on the one of whatever bar) Using Pitch in Time as the default time c/e I used the time trimmer and made it fit 8 bars at the new tempo. I did this to the whole song and everything was cool except the vocal. We went from 70 bpm to 78 bpm. It's funny- I actually like what it did to the sound of the track.

Serato Pitch 'n Time does the trick for me

Pitch 'n Time will add a flangy metallic artifact to your sound. Whether or not that is objectionable will depend on what you're time compressing. Generally speaking, this artifact will be less noticable on instruments than on vocals. Digi's time compression will have none of these artifacts, but it will create bumps and glitches at many of the points where it removes time. Fortunately, these bumps aren't generally noticable on vocal or dialog tracks. So you may find that by using both you can utilize their strengths, avoid their inherent weaknesses, and still get your material to length. I haven't used Speed, but I'm told that it has a sound similar to Pitch 'n Time. David

if you are running a PC try the program Acid. it works wonders. If your mix is finished, then just bounce it, throw it into acid, it'll ask if you want to beat map the file, choose yes. then there is a fader that allows you to speed/slow down the tempo. if your not running on a PC, you could still copy to a CD and then bring it into a PC with Acid on it. I love acid, and use it at home more than protools for just this reason. the editing isn't as great, but you can learn to work around that. check it out