From the course: Logic Pro X: Making Beats
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Time stretching audio - Logic Pro Tutorial
From the course: Logic Pro X: Making Beats
Time stretching audio
In this project, I'll adjust Logic's tempo to my beat, and then I'll do the reverse. Time stretch a beat to Logic's tempo. Say you want to conform Logic's tempo to an audio sample, you have a slamming beat, love the feel, and want it to work at exactly that tempo. We'll use this beat I have called Beat Two. So the first thing we need to do, is make sure the sample is perfectly looping, whether it's one bar, two, four, it doesn't matter, but it needs to seamlessly come back around, without any hiccups in the beat. To check the loop, with a region highlighted, I'll select the Set Locators, here in the toolbar, and start playback. Logic will cycle the highlighted region. When it comes back around to the down beat, we'll listen for any hiccups in the beat. Sounds good to me. It's a perfect loop, so I'll set the bar ruler cycle length to the same number of bars of the loop. Let's confirm, I believe it's a two bar loop. One, two, three, four, two, two, three, four Okay. So here in the bar…
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