Or you can even autodetect or set to the project tempo. Notice too if you right-click on this dial you have some interval lengths you can choose, like 1 beat, 1 bar. You can use the Time dial to stretch your audio. This will stretch and compress your audio clip without it re-pitching it. Just double-click the clip to bring up its properties box. What you can also do if you don’t select this Macro option is you can apply the realtime stretching to individual clips. You can take that classic ’80s tune that’s in 100 BPM and realtime stretch it to 140 BPM for your Drum ‘n Bass remix for example.

You can quickly test out different tempos for your song without affecting where the audio clips reside in the project. Impressively minimal artifacts are introduced into the sound-quite amazing. Plus when you play back, you’ll hear how they are not re-pitched like the resampling technique. If I increase the tempo to 130, watch how the audio clips adapt to match the timing. With this enabled, all the audio is locked in with the project tempo. Now go to the Macros menu, and in here you’ll now see ‘Switch realtime stretching for all audio clips’. A dialog box will come up warning you that this is a destructive method. Just a quick side note, when you apply this new feature, it cannot be undone so maybe backup a copy of your project before attempting this. So the same setup: the project is at 120 BPM.

Now, let’s look at the new feature and its methodology. Now with the new FL Studio 12.3 feature, the timestretching can be done in realtime, plus without any pitch alterations. By editing the Elastique parameter, the duration of the clip would change without affecting its pitch, but it would take a few seconds to adjust the timing before the new adjusted sound played in. Or you could use the Stretch mode on the audio clip properties. The downside of this method was that if you compressed the audio, it would pitch it up, and if you stretched it out, it would be pitched down. Now what? You could choose each audio clip, assign the Resampling timestretch mode and stretch out your audio to match the project tempo.

How to stretch samples in fl studio