Change BPM of wav file without affecting sound

Hello!


I tracked drums for several songs after another in a project set to default 120 bpm. The drums were recorded with a totally separate click track of various bpm's. I can chop them up and import in a new project with correct bpm, but when using flextime it starts to mess things up.


Any tips on getting tracks recorded in 120 bpm, but with content played in 160 bpm, work well in a new project set to 160 bpm?


Really badly explained, but it's the only way I can seem to describe my problem for now.


Thank you!

MacBook Pro (2021)

Posted on Jan 30, 2024 2:34 PM

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Posted on Feb 3, 2024 2:07 PM

Ok, I fumbled a little trying to explain this earlier (I think) which made it difficult to find a solution.

But now I have and thought I'd share it quickly here.


Basically when you get some audio from someone else that was recorded in a different bpm than your project where this is going into, it will mess up if using flextime. What to do is really simple: make sure the bpm of your project is correct, select audio, click "Edit" > "Tempo" > "Write Project Tempo to Audio File".


That's it and flextime will work fine.



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Feb 3, 2024 2:07 PM in response to albiebaba

Ok, I fumbled a little trying to explain this earlier (I think) which made it difficult to find a solution.

But now I have and thought I'd share it quickly here.


Basically when you get some audio from someone else that was recorded in a different bpm than your project where this is going into, it will mess up if using flextime. What to do is really simple: make sure the bpm of your project is correct, select audio, click "Edit" > "Tempo" > "Write Project Tempo to Audio File".


That's it and flextime will work fine.



Jan 31, 2024 12:22 AM in response to BenB

Thank you for replying. I agree and I changed the project bpm from 120 to 160 so that the metronome matched the drums playing.


The problem seem to occur when activating flextime. I have 8 drum tracks grouped and it could be that the problem is elsewhere and not bpm-specific as first thought. After flextime analyse for transients it for some reason speeds up the audio during playback and some audio tracks gets shortened/cut off.


Guess I'll just have to start over and be very aware of every step going forward as to recognize when something wrong happens...

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