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Beat mapping a live performance

Beat mapping a live performance - Logic Pro Tutorial

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Beat mapping a live performance

Beat mapping is a technique for creating a tempo map when you're working with live musicians who sound fantastic, but maybe didn't play to a click track, so there's a drift from a consistent tempo. It also can help with samples off a record that drift in time. These drums here were recorded preform without a click track. While I can easily quantize audio in Logic, so I could quantize all of these drums, I want to maintain this original human feel, but be able to later, add some synth parts, and quantize them to these drums. So, I want to create a tempo map, of the multiple tempos here, and have the bar and beat grid conform to this original audio. This is called beat mapping. I'll open up the view of global tracks by clicking on this Hide/Show Global Tracks disclosure triangle on top of the track list. I don't need all of these in view, so I'm going to Ctrl+Click, hide the arrangement, hide the signature track, and the marker track. And what I do want, is this one at the bottom, show…

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