Comments on: Time-Stretch Comparison: Live/Traktor Pro/Serato/Torq

By: Mark Davis

Mark Davis — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:38:22 +0000

Great article! Although they are not as commonly used by DJ’s, both Pro Tools and Mixmeister also offer pitch shifting/time stretching. Perhaps they can be included in the next comparison.

By: Strider

Strider — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:03:49 +0000

Has anyone here tried out the new Virtual DJ 6.06 Pro New Year Edition? Yes it is very basic when compared to Traktor,(I got both),but it does allow video mixing and beat matching the same as with just audio.With a dedicated output for a second video monitor as well.
The beat engine is different than that in Traktor for many songs for some reason but the sound quality is just shy of Traktor now.It has come along way.
I use Traktor for live shows and Virtual DJ for recording.Just wondering what you guys think?

By: fermx

fermx — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:54:46 +0000

for me, when it comes to reduce bpm its:

1º torq elastique
2º traktor
3º ableton
4º torq standard
5º by far: itch

have no words for increase bpm

By: regend

regend — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:15:09 +0000

Well, I think it’s kind of unneccesary for torq to have a ‘better’ timestretching, cause a dj will never slow or speed up a song that drastically

are you kidding? with the platter off on 1200’s i use my fingers to push the platter to faster and slow BPM’s on vinyl and i’ve been doing that since 1992! having a pair of Numark TTX’s pitch -+ 50% is now considered cheating for me. i understand that the argument is “time stretching” to keep the tune in the same key but come on! innovation with limitations started the whole DVS thing.

By: halfasemitone

halfasemitone — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:21:00 +0000

@Basie:

You’re right. Pitch in Time was fantastic. The difference is, this is real time.

By: halfasemitone

halfasemitone — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:18:45 +0000

Stop worrying about how loud this sht is. The quality of Serato’s time stretch -27.2% is absolutely terrible. There is no question here. Some Serato fanboys are willing to ignore the fact that sounds terrible.

By: sound engineer

sound engineer — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:47:07 +0000

You should have done a “blind” test (without the name of the software) in order to avoid bad results (= people influenced by the name) and give results just after the vote. When you have to judge a time-stretch algorithm either you have the engineering tools/knownledges or you have let’s call it “professional” ears (which is not the case of all the people on Earth).

By: g

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:31:22 +0000

serato sounds like it got pwnd to me…