Paulstretch

English en Etymology en Paul stretch, after its inventor Paul Nasca. Proper noun en algorithm A certain audio time stretching algorithm. en Pittsinger says he used a program called PaulStretch to slow the track down. So I tracked down the software's creator, Paul Nasca, to find out how the program works. Sami Yenigun How It Works: The Art Of Time-Stretching Bieber w:NPR Music 18 August 2010 https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2010/08/18/129283985/the-art-of-a-time-stretch https://web.archive.org/web/20260619064134/https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2010/08/18/129283985/the-art-of-a-time-stretch 19 June 2026 en “I took a portion of what I was working on and took it into PaulStretch and then bring it back into the track to sit low in the mix as a drone version of itself. It gives the track a good base and a haunting texture to it. I use the PaulStretch audio as a sound bed to further build the track from.” Aykan Esen Bonobo-Style Haunting Ambience with PaulStretch Attack Magazine 16 July 2020 https://www.attackmagazine.com/technique/synth-secrets/bonobo-style-haunting-ambience-with-paulstretch/ Bonobo (musician) Bonobo https://web.archive.org/web/20260915031825/https://www.attackmagazine.com/technique/synth-secrets/bonobo-style-haunting-ambience-with-paulstretch/ 15 September 2026 en Where most audio time-stretching is usually used for small adjustments, Paulstretch is regularly used to stretch audio by a factor of 5, 10, 20 or much more. Colin Malloy Timbral effects the Paulstretch audio time-stretching algorithm w:Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1 April 2022 https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/article/151/4_Supplement/A158/2838584/Timbral-effects-the-Paulstretch-audio-time https://web.archive.org/web/20260719183209/https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/article/151/4_Supplement/A158/2838584/Timbral-effects-the-Paulstretch-audio-time 19 July 2026 Alternative forms en PaulStretch References en https://www.paulnasca.com/algorithms-created-by-me Algorithms created by me Paul Nasca Paul Octavian Nasca 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20130821053437/http://www.paulnasca.com/algorithms-created-by-me en eponyms en Sound engineering