HasseFX Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 Maybe something basic I've missed but... Background: I created a song, containing a hundred or so tempo changes (tempo from live drummer), from which I made WAV stems and sent to the singer. He returned his vocals as WAV-files which I imported with no issues. Problem: I need to do some temporal adjustments on the imported vocal tracks! But those WAV files are recorded using the stem files as reference, at some fixed tempo. They play back fine, but as as soon as I enable Flex Time, Logic X "adjusts" the timing according to the project tempo changes and the timing gets completely off. FIxes: IDK... I can turn off the Flex & Follow for a region, but then Flex Time is also disabled. I can manually circumvent by chopping up the vocal tracks into parts and manually reset the timing affected by the tempo changes, feasible but tedious. Question: Is there a way to be able to Flex Edit a track, without the automatic tempo adaption happening? Or a smoother way to get around the problem? Thanks /HasseFX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Just make sure quantize is not enabled in the region parameter. Just enabling Flex shouldn't move the region. If it still does it, you can try removing tempo from file on the local menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution David Nahmani Posted August 18, 2020 Solution Share Posted August 18, 2020 If enabling Flex alone changes the audio region's timing that means that the audio file don't have the correct tempo data embedded. This happens if you imported the audio files from another project, or created tempo changes in the project after you had recorded the audio files. So disable Flex, and if you're happy with the way the audio files playback at the current project tempo, select the audio regions and choose Edit > Tempo > Write Project Tempo to Audio Files. Now enable Flex. The audio regions should stay put. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HasseFX Posted August 18, 2020 Author Share Posted August 18, 2020 So disable Flex, and if you're happy with the way the audio files playback at the current project tempo, select the audio regions and choose Edit > Tempo > Write Project Tempo to Audio Files. Now enable Flex. The audio regions should stay put. Yes, that is exactly function I was looking for, intended just for this kind of situation! Thanks! An alternative I discovered meanwhile is to do a Bounce-in-Place of the imported regions before applying Flex, which creates a new audio file with the project tempo written. Useful maybe in the case when you chop up an audio file in several regions, some that you do want to adapt to the project tempo, while others should not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Great! Good to hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HasseFX Posted August 18, 2020 Author Share Posted August 18, 2020 Sorry, a double post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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