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Adjul Gardner
March 26th, 2015, 08:44 PM
Hi,
I had a piano piece I want to gradually accelerate, and all I can think to do is to break it down into pieces and accelerate them more and more as it progresses. Is there a way to "fade in" the acceleration on the whole piece? Thanks

Adam Stanislav
March 27th, 2015, 11:25 AM
I’d do it with Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder (http://audacity.sourceforge.net), then import the result to Vegas.

Vince Pachiano
March 27th, 2015, 02:13 PM
The "effect" that you want is in Audactiy, under Effect -> Sliding Time Scale/Pitch Shift.
In your case, you would load the music into the editor, select the portion (or the entire thing) that you want accelerated.
Select Initial Tempo of 0%, and final tempo of whatever you want it to be.
I'm assuming you want the pitch to stay the same
Export your results to a new file, then import that new file into vegas.

Christopher Young
March 27th, 2015, 06:54 PM
+1. Good one Adam, Vince. Have had Audacity for ages and have learnt something new. Great!

Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney.