Tip #13 - Tempo Track Technique 1 - Logic Studio Tips

[bluesky810]

Thank You!!

[AQUEOUSI]

oh man dude, thank you so much

[blu02215]

wow, what a great function to know!! thanks for posting this video :)

[nmcq333]

Hey just a thanks, after hours and hours with the manual only discover that "tap tempo" wasn't what I wanted. I often receive audio files recorded with no click, and changing tempos. So I need to build a customized tempo map to match these rubato performances, i.e. to tap in a tempo map as I listen, so that in subsequent recordings, other musicians can record to a click that follows the track. And time-based editing works. Anyway, quick visit to YouTube and problem solved by you. THANKS!!

[FlymitoJerkyTubbiez]

you are my teacher amigo thanks nobody like you for teach gracias

[Jimbomohn]

ahhhh thank you!! i knew logic could do it

[adrher1]

how would you use this?

[ICEProducer]

Why would you have to make a click track with a drum when click is in option while recording. All you have to do is route the click track to an additional audio mono track via bussing. That keeps your tempos tight and no need for additional Bin allocation. Just a question.

[Mw2Tage]

Help me !!!! Can you change the tempo of ONE track without making your entire porject change tempo...I am using A MIDI controller

[npeffer]

@Mw2Tage I know this was 9 months ago, but did you ever figure out how to change the tempo of one track?

[NoLintForYou]

your a genius that was fast and easy!

[timcharper1]

Was wondering how to break free of the metronome for recording and getting things to line up! This is AMAZING! Thank you!

[ilkose]

this was very helpful! thank you!

[rshankar9]

awesome !

[claudioagmfilho]

wow fantastic ...

[99djcash]

hey good video! but i have a question can you speed up individual tracks? like if you have many tracks how can you change the tempo of each track? thanks !

[bbok23]

@99djcash Yes, how do you change the speed of individual tracks? No one seems to know?

[ShaneJones89]

good tutorials man, but like, if you wanna find like the tempo of an accapella for like a remix, is there w way to find out the exact tempo of that accapella if you know how many bars there are in the sample. Thanks

[recalltwentyseven]

hello there, looked at many of your videos learned a lot thank you but i'm still a beginer ;) have a lot of audiotracks in my recording and i can't get the overal tempo configured is there a way to controll tempo of audiotracks after recording or should i record everything over again?

[crguti]

How do you adjust several tempo markers and set them to e.g. 220?

[babybluestrato]

just what i needed to know!

Thank ya

[heymicah]

That is cool. Can you quantize or snap drums to the altered metronome you just created? Thanks in advance. If so how?

[ciloxix]

hey, can you tell me how to make something i recorded faster, cos i cant find out how to do it, i just got logic like a day ago, and have no idea what im doing :L thaankss

[4initialD]

Logic makes me mad sometimes, i wish i knew understood it in and out. all im trying to do is match an acapella to a beat i made, but i have to search online for 2 hours and no cigar...

[Munki6]

yeah I'm stuck with this problem as well. Anyone know if there's a way to link the track to your click instead of linking your click to the track?

[jamupjoey]

4initialD: Check this if you havent already.

[jukea]

Awesome tip! It brings me halfway to what I'm trying to do : take a track with free tempo and straighten it up . E.g : warp a song into having a fixed tempo, based on the beatmapping, I think this must be possible . Would you know how to do this ? Mayb esomething involving the new flex feature...

[newom]

Big thx! Cheers!

[megi0003]

is it possible to copy the click for the so that it play out for a whole song, because my band is starting to use sample for playing live and i need to be able crate a click tract that i can pan to one side for all our songs.

thanks!

[flemingway]

So simple and good video. I just tap as good as I can, edit same if necessary and then beat-match it to my rather free-tempo piano track. Then I can quantizie other stuff to that.

[jamesgarvey12345]

wow

thankyou so much man

[LBProductions511]

thank you so much, one question though, how do you tap tempo?

[jamesgarvey12345]

yeah i need the same answer

[SFLogicNinja]

under the options menu, tempo -> tempo interpreter.

Also, you can tap along to a song, then use the beat matching global track to analyze the beats and change the tempo for you...

I think I cover this later...

If not, email me!

*bows*

[MonroeEnt]

Hey Logic Ninja, Did you cover how to use the Tap Tempo and the setting on the tempo interpreter. Please get back or if you did, lemme know the video to look at. It would really help Thanx

[flemingway]

Tap means Play.

You set Logic to record: play (hit) any note on a midi-keyboard or the computer-lock keyboard in the tempo you want. Tap the keyboard at every 1/4 beat or what ever you choose. The beat-matching is gonna read you notes as a beat-rythm.

To tap a tempo: just hit any key in the tempo you want during the song and record it. Then use the function described here.

[MrTurnitup]

@LBProductions511

Look at the video again..... I think you missed something :)

Check out my channel for new instrumentals!!

[kevinrules4ever]

¡¡¡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.

[denmarion]

That is amazing. WoW!!!

[mikey989]

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

[botisatvazero]

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!

[angushsiao]

thanks

it solved my hours of agony

[Sutyanass]

you're a godsend.. but you knew that already

[bmcauliffe]

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!

[SFLogicNinja]

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*

[curzmg]

@SFLogicNinja Thank you so much. This really aids classical composition in Logic which I simply thought was impossible before. It basically emulates the conductor feature in the new Sibelius.

[ivspeedway]

very helpful tip.

[zeland3]

I love you SF Logic Ninja. you are a master!!!

[incarnatepsyche]

Please don't stop helping yourself, cause your helping me too! Thanks a million.

[therrsh]

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?

[farrukhbig]

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.

[tunezis]

thanks for teaching man, this is philanthropy at its finest

[gpaoni]

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

[gpaoni]

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

[kedavis]

Kwel!!!!

[sexonwax]

thank uuuuuu

[spikes23collection]

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.

[ddlivingjazz]

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

[lilseggy]

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 >

[SFLogicNinja]

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...

[ajmack07]

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

[catohoeben]

Good tip. Is there a quick way to smooth out those blocky tempo lines?

[SFLogicNinja]

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*

[zoomex]

great tip !!!

thanks for sharing.

[Goyen987]

I was in the Apple shop for days trying to get them how to show me how to do that and they were like "errrrrm.... I have no idea"

THANK YOU SFLOGICNINJA!!!

[ms2000guy]

yayyyy I just watched all your videos in one sitting. sweeeeeet.

[falzaabi]

cool wow thanks