How do I adjust tempo? I just don't get it...

[geozero]

I have a song recorded at 128 BMP since the "click track" was a drum machine at that tempo, now there are live drums (click track muted).

But when it was "recorded" into DP, I forgot to change the tempo to 128, and so it is at the default 120 BMP. It plays fine, but how do I change the tempo map to 128 without causing pitch change? I just want the tracks and tempo to line up...

I tried various things but can't get it... thought I'd ask the experts here...

thanks in advance~!

[doodles]

you dont need to change the tempo as it's playing at the right speed, yeah?

so if i was you, firstly i would change the tempo in the tempo window to 128. your audio (assuming it's all one long take) will still play at the right speed. if it's not all one long take, merge all the audio in each track to begin with. it should still be lining up. then click on each soundbit, go to set soundbite tempo, and make each one 128 bpm - none of the timings should change, but they'll have the tempo info you want.

is that what you're after? it's early and haven't had my shot of caffeine yet :p

[thracks]

How about doing all that, then in the audio menu "Adjust Sequence to Soundbite Tempo"

[m2]

How about doing all that, then in the audio menu "Adjust Sequence to Soundbite Tempo"

You probably DON'T want to do that. DP will assume that the audio was recorded at 120 and will try to speed it up to 128. Rather you want to ASSIGN the current seq tempo to the audio so it 'knows ' it's at 128 to begin with with out changing it.

But when it was "recorded" into DP, I forgot to change the tempo to 128, and so it is at the default 120 BMP. It plays fine, but how do I change the tempo map to 128 without causing pitch change? I just want the tracks and tempo to line up...

If you actually have a 'map' meaning tempos changing at various places then you are going to have to put all the tempo changes into the conducter track. Make the Conductor track active and THEN assign those tempos to the respective audio in the sequence. The pitch in DP will not be affected if in fact you then later try to speed up/slow down sections of this drum recording. at least not using the assign-seq-tempo-to-sound-bit or change audio to current seq tempo.
See the manual as well.
Good luck.

[Panopticon]

Originally posted by m2:
[QB]

How about doing all that, then in the audio menu "Adjust Sequence to Soundbite Tempo"

You probably DON'T want to do that. DP will assume that the audio was recorded at 120 and will try to speed it up to 128. Rather you want to ASSIGN the current seq tempo to the audio so it 'knows ' it's at 128 to begin with with out changing it.

That's not true, it won't change the speed of the audio one bit; and it is, in fact, the solution he's looking for. If he tried to "Adjust Soundbite to Sequence Tempo," then he'd be changing the length of the audio.

[philbrown]

Seems to me you would just want to change the tempo with the tempo slider (or enter the tempo on the conductor track), then select all soundbites in tracks and shift all til the song beats match the bar lines. IOW, Find any strong downbeat and line it up with a barline.

This assumes you recorded to a click or something and don't need to map out or shift the music itself.

You really don't need to mess with time stamping - If I'm understanding the question.

Phil

[musicarteca]

1- Go to the tracks window and lock the audio tracks (click the small lock), that way all the audio will be unaltered when you change the tempo.
2- Change the tempo to 128. The sequence metronome should go along with the recorded drums.
3- This next step is optional: Select all the drum soundbites and from the audio menu select "copy sequence tempo to soundbite". This will not change anything in the performance, but will get rid of the red bar lines on the drum soundbites.

Since the drums where originally recorded at 120, DP marks this tempo as the soundbites tempo, so after you change the sequence tempo, you should as well change the internal tempo of every soundbite, in case that you want to quantize later on. Notice that what you have to do is "copy" the sequence tempo into the soundbites, and not "adjust" the soundbites to the sequence tempo, which will in this case time compress the soundbites to the new tempo.