Chicster

Hi - thanks for answering. I thought that might be the way so I selected all tracks and followed the bounce in place prompts. What seemed to happen then was that all tracks got named snare+bip and the only tracks that seemed to alter were the 3 midi tracks (which converted to audio - not the end of the world but I'd rather they stayed midi) which bounced onto new tracks. I'd never used bounce in place before so perhaps I am doing it wrong, but not sure if that is gonna give me what I want? Ideally everything as is but at the new corrected tempo.

Hi - I am mixing a live performance and on two tracks in the middle of the gig the band speeds up a bit. I did some research and used Flextime to gradually reduce the BPM of the tracks - first taking them out of the project into a separate area to work on - and it worked brilliantly. I'd now like to copy them back in place but at the new tempo i.e. without Flextime being enabled (when I tried it in the main live performance it gave an error Unexpected request for audio which I gather is a sort of processing overload). Is there any way that I can keep the time/tempo changes but ditch the Flextime and copy the tracks back into my master project as they now sound? It is about 30 audio tracks and 3 Midi tracks. Thanks New MacBook Pro and Logic 10.7

All I can add is that I wrote that original song 6 years ago. I played the demo backing track to click in PT at the tempo in the header - 90. Paul recorded the drums against that backing track and click. It said 90 at the time and still says 90. After the drum session, I took the drum tracks back, imported them into PT in a new session, set the tempo at 90 so the grid worked and redid the guitars, keys and vox to final recording quality. Then it went for mixing in a folder marked track name and bpm... Mibbe I am going mad after all...or I'm just old. Not to worry. I'm sure you have better things to do than chase this round and round! Thanks.

Ok - well let's close this one off now as we are going around in circles and I get the method of setting the tempo in LPX now so I will just use that and ignore the incoming. Thanks again.

Yes - that is what I get in LPX. I double checked this time before I posted tho: see the attached from ProTools. Not that it necessarily proves anything about bpm...but just highlights that I am not going completely nuts!

Ok - see what bpm you make this one at then? hats.mp3.zip

Yeah - hopefully they will get around to it. I found it SO useful in editing and generally keeping track of things.

Apologies - just went back to my original PT files and yes, you are quite right, that track was indeed 150. I blame my inadequate filing abilities for putting it in the 130 folder! Wish I had picked a 94 or 105 now as an example - I NEVER use those time signatures and I know that are not right... but anyway...we are going round in circles and I don't want to waste anyone's time anymore than I have. All good...

As I said - no drama and not trying to score points. There seems to be a variation between what I have in PT (and Cubase) when it goes over to LPX. That was just one example - lots of others have arisen and some not so neat i.e bpm of 94 or 105. The only bpm that seems to match perfectly is 100 for some reason. The 75 above came from LPX meter and quantise so I just went with that. 150 works perfectly as you say. I'll just live with it and map the beats to the grid as they fall rather than what they were saved as originally. Thanks again.

Well since that is twice 75 I am not gonna argue All I can say is it is 130 in ProTools (and Cubase as it was mixed in that). But anyway - if I get a fit to the grid it means I make more accurate edits. Thanks

Yes, you have to compress the file first. You don't need utilities. See the instructions in the link I just shared where I explain how to compress a file. Sorry - this is all new to me on Mac hats.mp3.zip

Thanks - it doesn't seem to allow me to select mp3 format. I'll try and zip it later. I have no utilities on this Mac so will have to put it onto my PC and do it there.

Did you check that the project sample rate (File > Project Settings > Audio) is the same as the audio file's sample rate (in the Project Audio browser)? Yeah - just double checked by firing up my old PT machine. Both 44.1

Apologies - I bounced it to an MP3 but can't seem to upload that?

OK - so the drums were all recorded in the same way. Everything starts at Zero, there is an 8 count on the ProTools click track (sometimes on hi-hat in time) and then the drum tracks start. It's a full kit, around 14 tracks in all. When I import I bring them all to zero, set the LPX bpm to the same as they were recorded i.e. 130...and they look like the 130 screenshot. So then I run the BPM meter on the hats or kick and it says 75. I set it to 75 and it looks like the 75 screenshot. At no time do I move the start point or make any other adjustments. The "manual" process ends up the same but just takes a little longer. Maybe I am missing something or am just confused between the two systems, but in PT I was used to watching the grid for the beats lining up but in LPX it is not working out quite the same. Like I said before - no drama and I am working around it. Just curious and it would be better obviously to get it on the same bpm as before as, at some point, I will be exporting it to have it mixed and they will want the right bpm I am sure.