[HurtMesaMusic]

I’m reading that you have two goals, matching the grid to the track, and then changing the tempi to tidy things up. Is this correct? Like you, I haven’t had luck with Identity Beat. Identify beat works on material with clear transients, and unsyncopated beats.

In my experience, I have better results manually identifying the tempi of short sections, like 8, 4 or 2 bars. The end result would be a grid that matches your track. The advantage would be so you could add midi tracks or follow a click for recording real instruments. Elastic audio is not a part of this process yet. Audio tracks are set to Samples so the grid changes “behind” the audio.

If you want to change the tempo of several sections of the track, that’s where EA comes in. You probably know all of this, I’m just trying to be clear.

So, my workflow has been like this. Duplicate the track if the beat is not sold or clear in the intro. Make sure the track is set to samples. Cut off the intro to wherever there’s a clear beat, and trim it to the transient of the downbeat. Slide the track all the way left to measure one, beat one.

Use tap to tempo with the tempo number highlighted in the transport window. Type enter and see how well the grid lines up with the transients. If you can’t see transients, then add a click track and listen for a tempo match.

When you get a good tempo for the first section, you’ll want to go back to the original track if you chopped the intro. Give your clip a measure or two of space for roll in or in case you need room to the left.

Depending on the performance, you’ll have to add tempo changes every few bars or so. When you see that the grid (or hear that the click) falls behind or ahead of the beat, back up a measure and add a tempo change. Try to add them only on downbeats or at least on quarter note beats.

Save your session a lot, like all the time.

When you add the second tempo change, notice that you can click and slide the numbers up or down, and the grid expands and contracts. Visual alignment is faster than listening to the click. Repeat as necessary for the whole track. Check the whole track by ear with a click.

When the grid and clicks are tight with the audio, you can enable EA, real-time polyphonic. Switch the track from samples to ticks.

Back to your goal of tidying things up. If you have only a few tempo changes, you can adjust each by a few bpm towards each other for less variance and more realism. Or you can delete all but the first tempo and experiment with one tempo. If you had tempo changes only on downbeats, the groove won’t be affected.

My last steps are to change realtime EA to Xform. When that’s done processing, disable Xform and commit the track in the Xform dialog box. If you’re still experimenting with tempi, duplicate the track first.

Hope this helps.











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