Question

Would love to see Varispeed audio (like in Varispeed tape machines) added into Studio One. I'd ideally like a slider or knob that would allow users to increase/decrease the playback/recording speed and pitch.

Want to sing a vocal harmony that's above your range? Slow/pitch everything down while you record yourself singing in a comfortable range, then set the playback speed back to normal to hear your new high harmony. The Beatles tracked the high parts on Paperback Writer that way, same for the fast piano solo (that sounds like a harpsichord) on In My Life: playback was dropped an octave, piano recorded slowly and an octave lower than intended, then everything was sped back up.

There's a ton of creative uses for Varispeed in everything from the pop/rock to EDM and hip hop crowds.

Answer 1

Thanks for the suggestion.

If anyone else agrees, or disagrees, please vote on it.

Answer 2

I would also like to have this feature, but only if it is also possible to keep the pitch while slowing down or fasten up. This way you could practise or record difficult parts way more easily at a slower tempo than by messing up the tempo track with bpm changes. But even if you do this by the tempo track you have to make sure that all audio tracks follow the tempo changes AND that the audio events all got a tempo information (which imported tracks usually don't).

Answer 3

Being able to automate it would be nice

Answer 4

Varispeed Please.  Also simpler way to do the Tape stop effect, like logic and protools.  

Answer 5

Please....

There's 3 use cases for me:

• If I need to change the tempo of a song with a tempo track (varying tempo).  I'm dealing with live tracks not recorded to a click.  I tempo map with Melodyne, but then I'm stuck if I want to change the speed while keeping the tempo map.
• If I need to slow a track down to learn it or pick it apart.  I do backing tracks for my cover duo, and start with tempo mapping the original track.  
• If I want to do the varispeed vocal recording thing.  

Answer 6

I came here to suggest the same thing! There's not much that was easier about the old days when I used a cassette four-track to record, but this is one of them! 

I read recently that the Beatles used this trick for some of the piano parts on Abbey Road... they would adjust the tape speed slower to record a difficult part.

For the time being I guess we can ...

1. Export a stereo mix of the song
2. Import this audio file into a new Studio One project
3. Time stretch this to be longer (ie, slower)
4. Record new parts while listening to this
5. Time stretch the new recording to be shorter (ie, faster, the original tempo)
6. Export this new track
7. Import it back into the original Studio One project

But I've gotta say ... Varispeed within Studio One would be a lot easier!

Answer 7

I completely agree, I would love to see this done in the way Ableton has "repitch" as a timestretch option that locks the stretched playback speed to the grid just like the other options.

It seems all of the infrastructure is already there in studio one we just need a "repitch" mode and "fade in/fade out" speed like Logic.

Answer 8

Oh yes! I want Varispeed as fast as possible. Especially for vocal recordings, the possibilities expand enormously here. Previously, in the "analog" times, regulating the tape speed was a natural and popular feature. Timestretching and/or pitching is not the same thing.

Answer 9

Sounds like tape style pitch shift. I want this so bad on audio events.

Answer 10

connect tempo to midi keyboard knob..then its what daw you use

Answer 11

Not saying it's a bad idea but wouldn't it sound like chipmunks once sped up?

Answer 12

Has this been implimented yet? There's so much creative potential in this funciton. I would find great use for vocal and instrument recordings alike. Slowing down to record a complex part and such trickery.

Answer 13

I would totally love to see VARISPEED available in the next StudioOne version.  Right now I record all sessions in Logic , mainly because of the VARISPEED function.  If and when StudioOne has this feature, I will most likely switch over to StudioOne as it feels quicker and more CPU efficient than Logic.  
 

Thank you for listening to our requests !!!

Answer 14

Four years have passed since your feature request and we still don't have vari-speed in Studio One :(

It's kinda strange, seeing as PreSonus is a company that listens to its costumers. However, I really respect PreSonus and I hope they add this feature soon :)

Answer 15

I asked about this feature back in 2017, pointing out the similar feature in Audacity called Change Speed. After learning about this thread and finding that the feature was unavailable in Studio One I forgot about it. The recent announcement of Studio One 5 prompted me to check this thread again, and I'm amazed to find that the feature still is not available. I have 78-rpm recordings that were digitally transcribed at 33-1/3 rpm (I had no 78-rpm turntable) and I would like to digitally convert them back to 78. Seems like the ability to digitally mimic a change in turntable speed ought to be easily implemented. And others have pointed out additional uses for such a feature. Please make it available!

Answer 16

Was really hoping for this one on v5. Just variable global playback rate (percentage), with an option to preserve pitch (useful when transcribing/learning pieces or songs) as in Reaper, Logic, etc. Could even be an option for lower quality timestretch. This is the one thing that keeps making me go back to other daws.