I haven't posted in years and things have changed here - lol. Not even a place for SX3, it seems, but here goes anyway:

-- My compositions are usually in the 40 to 60 BPM range due to my particular style (think Pink Floyd and such). Most samples are recored in at least 90 BPM and usually higher. As we all know, time-stretching messes with the waveforms, and going down is the worst.

Q: Is there some trick or plugin or script or ?? which could in some way minimize the damage -- such a high-to-low stretched drum beat NOT sounding like a drummer stumbling through an LSD phaser warp?

As an example:

--- Standard image compression for a .jpg image is 4:2:2, but using 4:4:4 is much better since it preserves more of the original data.

So I'm looking for something analogous to this for sound files.

Please note that I live on very limited disability income so I don't have cash to burn.
Thanks.

~ Soniclight/a.k.a. Philip Knight