From the course: Logic Pro X: Making Beats
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Beat mapping a live performance - Logic Pro Tutorial
From the course: Logic Pro X: Making Beats
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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Making groove templates5m 18s
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Advanced quantizing6m 13s
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Beat mapping a live performance6m 43s
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Experimenting with your tempo using Varispeed2m 23s
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Fattening your sound with drum replacement and doubling2m 55s
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Using MIDI Transform for a human-drummer feel6m 6s
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Tightening the feel with the groove track3m 57s
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