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I'm still often confused by how Smart Tempo and Flex work together. In this case, I take a pre-recorded stereo file that's been imported into a new Logic project, and use Smart Tempo to build the project tempo to match, adjusting time signature as needed for the track. Since the audio wasn't built with a fixed click track, the result is multiple tempo events. Now, I'd like to Flex the entire region to adjust the overall tempo, in many cases only temporarily. But when I enable Flex and try to simply drag the project tempo, i get the pop up "Multiple Tempo Event's Detected! Use the Tempo Track for further tempo editing." I get that the current project tempo is only representing the tempo at the playhead, but I'm thinking there must be a way to proportionally adjust the entire tempo track via Flex, preserving the relationships between the multiple tempo tracks. Is that possible? It may be I just haven't figured out the correct settings of Flex or Smart Tempo to allow this. Thanks everyone!

Yep, that's a winner - everything is fine now. Thanks!

Dewdman42, I'm interested in working with your MIDI Playback script, but when I take the link to GitHub, it gives me a "page not found", and my searching hasn't turned it up. Any chance you could check and update the link? Thanks immensely. And I really need to thank you a hundred-fold, your posts have been a giant help to me in the past!

Great post/discussion topic everyone! As a pianist, I have to agree with the premise that while the typical stereo sampled piano instrument (low notes to the left, high notes to the right) is interesting and can be useful in the right situation, it's not what I would consider inherently realistic, and in many cases it comes with such a wide stereo field that it's not a good fit in the mix. And simply panning the stereo signal, which acts like a standard balance control, is only going to accentuate either the high or low notes, not what you typically want to do. But there are a couple of other options you can experiment with. You can split the stereo signal into 2 separate tracks for the Left & Right signal, where you can then play with the pan each of those tracks (to do this, create another track and option-drag the original onto it to create a copy, then click-hold the stereo symbol on the channel strip and select Left for one track, and Right for the other). Also, Logic comes with a processing plug-in tool (they call it the Directional Mixer) which lets you narrow (and expand) the stereo field, in this case you can make the stereo signal "less Mono", all the way down to a true Mono signal. Hope these give you some ways to do what you want. Have fun!