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Tip #13 – Tempo Track Technique 1 – Logic Studio Tips
ByHow to tap your own tempo into Logic. *Imagine you had a band come in, and you used this technique to follow their drifting tempo. It’s pretty damn handy, and gets your click track in the ballpark, so to speak.
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May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
¡¡¡NO LEAS ESTO!!!
Si ya lo has leído copia y pega esto en 5 vídeos más o tu madre morirá en 3 días, hacerlo por favor , a mi amigo le paso, yo lo he hecho para que no me pase, por favor hacedme caso. esto es una maldicióóóóóóóon.
May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
That is amazing. WoW!!!
May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
does logic have there own version of cubase’s beat calculator? e.g. you record your track, open the beat calculator then tap the tempo to the track and it gives you a bpm value, because ive recorded a track and i want to program the drums but id left the tempo at 120,….done
May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
this didn’t post last time, i dunno…
GREAT tutorials. i have this issue come up all the time, maybe you can help: i have, say, a chant with no drums or tempo information that i want to sync up with a drum beat… how do i do this? i know it can be done, but i’m new to logic. SF? anyone? i am not entirely sure that the chanting has decent timing… should i just tap the tempo to the chant and then put a loop in that with tempo? i would like to choose a tempo and change the chant. thanks!
May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
thanks
it solved my hours of agony
May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
you’re a godsend.. but you knew that already
May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Yep.
Pop the hihat or snare into the sample editor, use audio to score function in the factory menu, and detect the tempo using Beat Mapping ‘Beats from region’
*bows*
May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
first off, great stuff, and thanks!
tricky question. drummer tracked in another studio already. played well, but not to a click. so i start songs with these files and we built gtr/bass/vox around. it’s fine. but i can’t clean anything up the way i usually would since there’s no grid. could i pull a midi “tap” out of an audio track like the snare, then try this? thanks!
May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
very helpful tip.
May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
I love you SF Logic Ninja. you are a master!!!
May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Please don’t stop helping yourself, cause your helping me too! Thanks a million.
May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
What if I’m working on a song and i’ve tapped out the beats like you showed, but I want a section of the song to switch from 4/4 to 6/8? How would I manage to change that up?
May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
how can i change the track tempo to mach the project tempo? I want to change an acapella tracks tempo to match the beats, but can’t seem to find out how.
Thanx.
May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
thanks for teaching man, this is philanthropy at its finest
May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
This is AWESOME! I have a band coming in this Monday that will definitely require use of this technique.
Thank you so much for sharing.
Gina
May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
This is AWESOME! I have a band coming in on Monday and this is definitely what I’ll be doing!!!
Thanks for posting this very informative and simple video!
Gina
May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Kwel!!!!
May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
thank uuuuuu
May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
just wanted to say (from an ex Steinberg user) that you have helped my transition to Logic to be a load of fun and quicker than I could have done without.
Peace and thanks.
May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
This is a FANTASTIC tip that just helped me make a deadline doing something I was trying to figure out. Thanks so much for this and all of your other great advice! As they say in Ohio (hey, I’m in NYC but I’ll say it anyway), “dude, YOU ROCK!”
- ddj
May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
The first note should be moved so that it actually starts at the beginning of the region. This happens a lot… It happens by playing slightly ahead of where you are recording…
May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Hey just a quick question. I am using my midi keyboard to enter notes into logic. However there is like a second of silence at the start and end of my loop. Therefore when I command r and repeat the loops broken. Any idea how to fix this >
May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
you rule man. im in australia doing an electronic music course the guy there doesnt no how to teach its like he expects me to no it all already your really good at this and you have helped me a lot keep it up and keep making videos. you should get paid for this bro
May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
yeah, but only if you need to. Tempo changes like this are usually almost imperceptible, and smoothing them out won’t really help with anything. Think of it like snapping your fingers to a song… If you speed up or slow down at each beat, it doesn’t sound ‘choppy’. If you grab the tempo node that rests at the bottom of the change, you can adjust the tempo curve.
*bows*
May 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Good tip. Is there a quick way to smooth out those blocky tempo lines?