- Hello, I'm Mike Russell from musicradiocreative.com.
In this video, I'll show you how to slow down a track
without affecting the pitch.
(disjointed electronic music)
So here we are in Adobe Audition,
and I've got some music from our retro '80s library,
it sounds pretty good.
(upbeat synth music)
Okay, so we want to slow it down, but not affect the pitch.
First way we can do this,
and there are a few methods I'll show you in this video,
is going to the Effects menu,
look for Time and Pitch and go to Stretch and Pitch.
And we'll say, okay, the new duration,
let's set this to Default to start with,
should be, instead of 0.51, let's make it 0-55,
so let's make it 55 seconds.
It adds a stretch of 106.94% and let's listen to it.
(upbeat synth music)
So that's a pretty reliable way to slow down
that track ever so slightly.
What you don't want to do is
tick Lock Stretch and Pitch Shift
because this will change the pitch,
(low synth music)
and you definitely do not want to be doing that.
So that's one way you can slow down ever so slightly.
You can also do the same method inside the Multitrack
and that might be a handier and easier way to work
as it's non-destructive,
meaning you're not changing the WAV file,
you can always go back to the original thing
without having to undo.
Let me show you what I mean.
In Multitrack over here,
this is the session here with our '80s track.
(upbeat synth music)
And you can see the track ends,
the peak right here on 44 seconds,
but maybe I want it on 45 seconds.
Simply switch on this toggle here, it's right there,
Global Clip Stretching,
and this will give you two white triangles
at the start and end of each waveform.
So, I want that peak to be at 45, there.
I just simply grab that toggle,
you get a little clock icon, pull out and there it is,
now the peak is on 45 seconds.
(upbeat synth music)
Now for the eagle eared of you there,
you will notice maybe a little bit
of a stretchy sound there, it's not perfect.
(upbeat synth music)
It's not bad,
but if you go any higher than, say, 110% on this,
129% stretch.
(slow synth music)
You can really hear it stretching out.
And the algorithm's very good
but it's not that good when you go to extreme stretches.
This can work really well on voiceovers
if you wanna give a really silly kind of stretched out sound
to what is being said,
but when we're talking about tracks,
we really want this to be more than perfect.
So we've already looked at Time stretching,
Clip stretching, Multitrack stretching,
all that good stuff,
but there's one final thing in Adobe Audition
that's mind blowing.
It basically enables us to slow down a track
to be as long as we want it to be
without affecting anything about the track.
It essentially remixes that track,
and to get this you right click,
you look for Remix in the menu, Enable Remix,
and you see it will, first of all,
analyze your clip and then it will give you
the option over here to work on the remix properties.
So we had 0-51 seconds,
we went up to 55 seconds okay.
Probably push it up to a minute, maximum.
But if we wanted to go anymore,
like if we wanted to make this a two minute track,
that would be impossible using normal Time Stretch,
but using Remix, two minutes, it's done it.
How did it do it? This is magic.
Well, it's simply gone through and it's made some edits.
It's used its very clever computer algorithm here
to make an edit.
Let's listen to that edit.
Right there where the jagged line is there's an edit,
let's wind back and play.
(upbeat synth music)
And you don't even notice the edit. Here's another edit.
And again, another edit.
And finally, that track is ending at the two minute mark
and it doesn't sound like it's been destroyed or ripped up
or changed in any way.
So remember this, it's a fantastic feature
only available in Multitrack in Adobe Audition CC.
Right click, Remix, Enable Remix,
go over here to your Properties tab to change the settings.
You can also change the Edit Length, Features, Minimum Loop,
and Slack as well if you want a longer or shorter edit,
depending on what's appropriate for your track,
but this is all possible and it's super easy
inside of Adobe Audition to slow down a track
without affecting the pitch.
(lively electronic music)
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