Guitar intro cuts off abruptly

[PhilAC]

Hi everyone.
I recently bought a short mellow guitar intro from AudioSparks.com and want to use it in a home production.
The final 'twang' fades out okay, but seems to cut off quite abruptly, when I'd like it to go on a little longer so that as the strum fades out a voice can come in. At the moment it seems a little too crammed.

I've got CoolEditPro2. Have printed out the 300 page manual and poured over it for hours, but I either don't know where to look, or I've seen it and it didn't register.

Could anyone explain how I could perhaps select the last 5 seconds of sound and make it extend to around 15 seconds?
Thank you very much for your time and advice.
Phil (UK)

ps. The second thing I wanted to ask was: Are NADY microphones any good?

 

[PhilAC]

Thanks for looking, but I found it.

I've posted my own reply in case anyone else has this problem.

I missed something quite obvious in the Effects menu called Stretch.
Here you can add as many seconds as you want and carry the note along with the pitch preserved, down to a fade out. This was exactly what I needed and so now the job is done.

I'll check back at intervals in case anyone else has anything to add, or makes a comment about the NADY microphones.
Take care
Phil

 

[lpdeluxe]

Yeah, I missed your post. I have used "stretch" to improve the tempo of recorded songs (I have a bunch of rehearsal recordings). It will also change keys, which I have done to learn a song that was in G#: transposed to G it was easy.

If you try to do too much (change the tempo or key by a large factor) it'll start to sound weird but it's very useful.