Quantize Field Recording "transients" - how?

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2013/10/28 23:08:03 (permalink)

Quantize Field Recording "transients" - how?

Hi Guys,
 
I'm looking for a plugin which can take a sample and force the "transients" in it to be in time with a designated tempo, but do it automatically, without me shifting and aligning transients myself... but I'm not talking about drums loops, I'm talking more organic recordings, like field recordings.
 
I know that sounds weird, so I'll elaborate.  I want to impart "strict" rhythm to very "loose" rhythmic parts.  Say I recorded the sound of my dog barking, and I have 4 second recording (2 bars if 120bpm).  Can I process that file to shift the barks around (forward or back - but independently of each other) so that each bark moves to the closest 8th, 16th (or whatever) note at 120bpm?  Same might be said of a bird singing, or the sound of wood chopping, dropping a handful of marbles, walking on gravel etc. -  I want to effect the audio so it has a quantized "rhythm" at a tempo I designate.
 
The important thing is that I can set the tempo, the divisions and what level identifies a "transient"... but it has to be automatic.  I want to press a button and it renders the file in one step, no manual adjustments.
 
How can I do this?  How would you do this?  Is there a plugin that makes this easy?
 
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    Kalle Rantaaho
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    Re: Quantize Field Recording "transients" - how? 2013/10/29 03:20:00 (permalink)
    I was about to suggest Audio Snap, but I guess it won't do, because it's far from a one-click method.
    I doubt if there is anything that can do it automatically, especially if the transients are of very variyng kind.

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    Re: Quantize Field Recording "transients" - how? 2013/10/29 19:25:14 (permalink)
    Hi, thanks Kalle, I think that could be the best solution for me, though I've been looking at Melodyne as a solution too.  I haven't upgraded from X2 yet, but that might be the deal breaker for me.  I might have to live with making a few mouse clicks, that's ok.
     
    Thanks for your help  :-)
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