Bounce/Freeze Tracks: Once you have stretched an item to your liking, "render" or "freeze" the track. This locks in the high-quality processing and frees up your CPU for plugins and mixing. The Future of Time-Stretching

| Feature | Elastique (Pro/3) | Phase Vocoder | WSOLA (Waveform Similarity) | |---------|------------------|---------------|-------------------------------| | Transient sharpness | Excellent | Poor (smearing) | Good | | Stationary tone quality | Very good | Good (but phasiness) | Moderate | | Pitch-shift + formant control | Yes (separate) | Limited | No | | Real-time low latency | Yes (special profiles) | No (high latency) | Yes (but lower quality) | | Artifacts at high stretch ratios (e.g., 4×) | Moderate (graceful degradation) | Severe (reverberant) | Severe (repetition artifacts) |

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: Changes the tempo or length of an audio clip while keeping the pitch constant.

, which separates percussive hits from melodic content to avoid "smearing". 2. Implementation & Usage Guides