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PaulXStretch

Spectral Timestretch Looper Plugin by Sonosaurus
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PaulXStretch
PaulXStretch by Sonosaurus is a Virtual Effect Audio Plugin and a Mobile Audio App for macOS, Windows, Linux and iOS. It functions as an Audio Units Plugin, a VST 3 Plugin, an AAX Plugin and a CLAP Plugin.
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1.6
64-bit Windows 7 or newer.
Product
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1.6
64-bit Mac OS-X 10.10 or newer.
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1.6
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1.6
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None
Open Source
GPL
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PaulXStretch - Plugin for extreme time stretching and other spectral processing of audio, based on the Paul's Extreme Time Stretch algorithm, previously only available as a stand alone application.

Latest User Reviews

Average user rating of 4.50 from 2 reviews
PaulXStretch

Reviewed By Milkman [all]
December 31st, 2023
Version reviewed: 1.6.0 on Windows

I have been stretching, warping, manipulating samples for a long time, at least 26 years now, but I am always looking for the best creative stretch algorithm and I just havent found exactly what Im looking for in all that time. Mind you I have not purchased any of the more expensive time/tone bundles or tools, and I dont own any of the cinematic voice effect tools. I have always looked for affordable or free time/tone tools, and Im always left wanting just a little more creative freedom.......

Then I found PaulXStretch, and my life has been altered lol. Quite seriously, I found this tool last night and have spent almost 12 hours straight making gorgeous drone and ambient music using multiple instances of PaulX on my workstations's desktop. I havent even opened my DAW in 12 hours, and this is weird. I have generated 100s of new drone samples for my projects, and I feel like I have a new workflow that will be with me for many years to come.

The stretch quality of this free (GNU) software is on par with paid products, native DAW tools (such as bitwig or cubase's algorithms), serato, etc, but goes WELL BEYOND any of these tools in terms of creative freedom. I can turn a 5 second sample into a 20 minute long drone masterpiece if I pick the right source file, and I can run 4-5 PaulX instances at the same time, creating a never-ending drone and ambient environment. I can stretch vocal samples to a point where other other stretch engines will lose most of the original sound character and vowel shapes, but paulX allows extreme stretching while still preserving that character.

This is an insanely fun, totally free creative tool and I cant recommend it more. I plan to donate to the dev because they deserve it.

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PaulXStretch

Reviewed By Swordnspade1 [all]
June 22nd, 2021
Version reviewed: 1.2.4 on Windows

Figured I would give a review as I didn't see any here. I would say this one of my favorite plugins and possibly one of my most used. The operation is super simple and I find it to just be a powerful and useful tool in making electronic music.

The sound quality is superb. It almost adds a stereo granular / imaging effect to the audio that sounds very nice for pads and sound effects. It can sometimes be a bit difficult to fine tune, but that's to be expected of a VST such as this.

The user interface might bother some, but I personally think it's perfect for something like this. Not too ugly; Not too flashy. It gets the job done and is easy to navigate. That's all that's important to me.

One gripe I have with this plugin, however, is the crashes that occur upon startup with my DAW. I use Reaper, so i'm unsure if this is just a Reaper problem, but is seems whenever I have a couple of instances of this plugin running on a project, Reaper will freeze up and crash right upon opening. I've found that freezeing / bouncing my tracks fixes this, which isn't too big of an inconvenience, just annoying. So if this is crashing Reaper for you, try that.

If you can't access your project because of crashes, try opening a blank project and opening the one you wish via a project tab (should be an option in the "open project") menu. That seemed to work for me.

All-in-all just get this plugin. It's free and very inspiring.

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Comments & Discussion for Sonosaurus PaulXStretch

Discussion
Discussion: Active
killmaster
killmaster
10 February 2018 at 10:18pm

are there presets anywhere? thank you for this.

chimp_spanner
chimp_spanner
11 February 2018 at 1:17pm

Hey this is great! Using it in Reason 10 atm and it's just unlocked an entire universe of sound design for me (beyond using the standalone program!). One question for the developer if they read this; is it possible to manually set the playhead? Currently it seems it's just free running regardless of the transport mode. It'd be nice if it reset to the start position on sequencer play, or otherwise would allow me to just click anywhere on the sample to begin playback there. Otherwise great job so far!.

chimp_spanner
chimp_spanner
11 February 2018 at 1:19pm

Hey this is great! Using it in Reason 10 atm and it's just unlocked an entire universe of sound design for me (beyond using the standalone program!). One question for the developer if they read this; is it possible to manually set the playhead? Currently it seems it's just free running regardless of the transport mode. It'd be nice if it reset to the start position on sequencer play, or otherwise would allow me to just click anywhere on the sample to begin playback there. Otherwise great job so far!.

**Edit: just found it. Ctrl + click to set playhead! Its responsiveness is greatly depending on the stretch factor and FFT size though so it appears that at 10x stretch, it takes almost 10 seconds to register the change in playback position.

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