Help - Slowing down a guide track - me going crazy!!

[Johnrg]

Hi All,

I have a band in at the moment tracking drums to a click and three guide tracks. The guide tracks can't be done again, the player is overseas.

One of the songs was recorded at 195bpm and is a bit fast, the drummer wants to slow the click and the guides down to 190bpm.

The click is no problem, I cannot do that in the tempo edit window but I am at a loss how to time compress the guides so they match up with the new click and tempo.

To test, I recorded the click to a track at 195bpm, changed the tempo to 190bpm and played around with the time shift and time compression plugins but no matter what I did the new rendered click audio track does not line up with the bars and beats of the new tempo. It's all over the place.

Guys, please help. Is there any simple way to slow these audio tracks down from 195bpm to 190bpm so they still line up with the new tempo map and click?

Thanks

JohnG

[albee1952]

If you know the original BPM, set your session tempo to match. Next; select TICKS for the audio(guide) tracks and enable polyphonic Elastic Audio. Now change the tempo to your new BPM and the guide track should shrink or grow to follow.

BTW, if these guide tracks are going to remain part of the final mix, and the EA processing makes them sound bad(which happens sometimes), you might consider downloading the demo version(14 days I think) of Serato Pitch 'n Time as it does a great job of changing pitch or tempo on audio tracks.

[JazzyJ]

you might consider downloading the demo version(14 days I think) of Serato Pitch 'n Time as it does a great job of changing pitch or tempo on audio tracks.

+1

The TC/E in Pro Tools is at best absolutely cr*p!

You need to use Serato PnT, Sound Toys Speed, Waves Soundshifter or X-Form if you want to use elastic time without any artefacts!

Go to Pro Tools preferences and choose the TC/E there once you've installed one of the above and then Elastic Time will run using one of those.

[Johnrg]

Thanks Guys,
I'll give tick based EA a try. They are only guide tracks for the drummer to play to and will be replaced so quality not an issue.
JohnG