I like that Sloom is not a commercial clone of PaulXStretch or a dumbed-down version of it, but that it has its own, interesting approach with the spectral shaping. Thanks for featuring it! And oh wow, what a neat idea to modulate key at a rate so glacial that no-one will notice! 🙂 That one I probably wouldn’t have thought about. Great also that it has presets (or “sessions”). My one big complaint about PXS is that it doesn’t. It’s so easy to tweak a few random controls in search of perfection and never be able to get back to the *really just great* sound I had moments ago. Or to recreate something I did months before. Sessions are a lifesaver. (If you happen to have an open line to the creators, please tell them though that the fonts are way too small; even at the max zoom I have trouble reading them. Yes, I’m getting old, but that’s not going to change and the fonts should! And if they can't make them bigger, it's time to rethink the UI. If Pigments can do so much more in the same space or less, then there's much room for improvement. It makes me fear buying Factorsynth, which fascinates me, but not if I can’t read the UI.)
Thanks for looking at Sloom! I've been getting a few stretchers lately to go with PaulXStretch for sound design. I'm amazed how bonkers this one can go! Definitely gonna try! BTW, been appreciating your video editing for quite sometime. Besides the great choice visuals, you're one of the reviewers who understand contrast, text legibility and font choice for those sitting in front and viewers in the back row. It makes your videos easy to understand/digest.
Hmmm interesting, as well as Sampleson just released a similar plugin called SCAPER, it would be cool to make a comparison video about all 3 (PaulXstretch being the third) and any other worthy ones.
I've Scaper. I like the results and I think has it's own sound. I just wish the GUI showed a representation of what's happening underneath. I hope ArcticFox checks out Scaper at some point or possibly does a Strech-o-Rumble between these products at the end of the year for a future feature. With Sloom, I'm liking the things you can tweak.
Just wait. Someone will say something like that and turn it into a 100 year evolving sound clip and sell it to a museum as 'art' for an insane amount of money.
From what I can tell, the wide and narrow algorithms don't appear to color the sound as much. The robotic one definitely does and the hybrid sounds smoother on some settings. I believe that the time stretching is done similar to granular synthesis but then adding copying and interpolation between the grains (not 100% sure though) so I'm wondering if the algorithms play with the shape similar to how you can have smooth or sharp grains. I'm trying to schedule a call with J.J. because I'd love to know how this is all done.
I like that Sloom is not a commercial clone of PaulXStretch or a dumbed-down version of it, but that it has its own, interesting approach with the spectral shaping. Thanks for featuring it! And oh wow, what a neat idea to modulate key at a rate so glacial that no-one will notice! 🙂 That one I probably wouldn’t have thought about.
Great also that it has presets (or “sessions”). My one big complaint about PXS is that it doesn’t. It’s so easy to tweak a few random controls in search of perfection and never be able to get back to the *really just great* sound I had moments ago. Or to recreate something I did months before. Sessions are a lifesaver.
(If you happen to have an open line to the creators, please tell them though that the fonts are way too small; even at the max zoom I have trouble reading them. Yes, I’m getting old, but that’s not going to change and the fonts should! And if they can't make them bigger, it's time to rethink the UI. If Pigments can do so much more in the same space or less, then there's much room for improvement. It makes me fear buying Factorsynth, which fascinates me, but not if I can’t read the UI.)
I have too many synths where I can barely read the text anymore.
Thanks! Great Sloom intro. I would love to see a mini tutorial on Factorsynth
It's definitely on my list. I'm excited to dive into that one because it looks pretty powerful.
Thanks for looking at Sloom! I've been getting a few stretchers lately to go with PaulXStretch for sound design. I'm amazed how bonkers this one can go! Definitely gonna try!
BTW, been appreciating your video editing for quite sometime. Besides the great choice visuals, you're one of the reviewers who understand contrast, text legibility and font choice for those sitting in front and viewers in the back row. It makes your videos easy to understand/digest.
Thanks Matt. Glad you are liking the videos. It’s taken me a while to get my editing to where it is so I appreciate the feedback.
I demoed sloom and love it. Will also get the others soon. Really like what anemond is doing
Me too.
Sounds pretty cool \m/
How is it that there are 120 Clint Kyro's before you???
@@arcticfoxstudios2018 It's actually my bday, for I am the one and original! lol
Hmmm interesting, as well as Sampleson just released a similar plugin called SCAPER, it would be cool to make a comparison video about all 3 (PaulXstretch being the third) and any other worthy ones.
I've Scaper. I like the results and I think has it's own sound. I just wish the GUI showed a representation of what's happening underneath. I hope ArcticFox checks out Scaper at some point or possibly does a Strech-o-Rumble between these products at the end of the year for a future feature. With Sloom, I'm liking the things you can tweak.
Scaper looks cool. Thanks for the heads up on that. Seems like it has a different approach with the particles thing.
Hundred year time stretch...now we're talking.
Just wait. Someone will say something like that and turn it into a 100 year evolving sound clip and sell it to a museum as 'art' for an insane amount of money.
@@arcticfoxstudios2018 It would certainly be a historic moment in history
I wonder how much of the sound that Sloom generates at extreme time stretches comes from the algorithm and how much comes from the input audio?
From what I can tell, the wide and narrow algorithms don't appear to color the sound as much. The robotic one definitely does and the hybrid sounds smoother on some settings. I believe that the time stretching is done similar to granular synthesis but then adding copying and interpolation between the grains (not 100% sure though) so I'm wondering if the algorithms play with the shape similar to how you can have smooth or sharp grains. I'm trying to schedule a call with J.J. because I'd love to know how this is all done.
How to you export the newly stretched audio onto the track inside the DAW?
I've just been recording the output into the DAW. Pretty sure you can't do a straight export. You can save the session to use in other tracks though.
@@arcticfoxstudios2018 Okay, that is what I was thinking.... thank you for confirmation, I wasn't sure if I was just missing something.
I lost count of the amount of plug ins featured here, would have been better of you just used Sloom and kept things simple.