Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago

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Sound Editing For Visual Media Ep10: Extreme Sound Stretching Using Hourglass

In this episode, I’m gonna show you how to sync up and use External Editors in Reaper, as well as show you one of my all-time favourite external editors, HourGlass, a brilliant free piece of digital audio engineering by Xenakios.
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Chapters:
0:00 Episode Overiew
0:47 Setting up External Editors in Reaper
2:51 Custom Action to open path in Reaper
3:36 The problem with my BG sounds in the Project
4:24 Time Stretching in Reaper
8:40 What is Hourglass?
17:40 Importing stuff back from External Editors
18:19 Creating sound effect clusters using Hourglass
20:44 Outro & Next Episode Tease