Welcome!
In this video we will explore the smart tempo
feature of Logic Pro X.
It's quite frankly a very brilliant function
because it will make the global tempo of Logic
followed the tempo of your playing.
So my name is Mattias and if your new to the
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Okey, so when we first open up Logic it will
have this very small transport bar.
So what we first need to do is, press this
little button here and select custom.
Which will give us a larger view of the transport
bar here and we can see our global tempo .
It's currently set to 120 BPM.
So here is the global tempo setting.
In logic we can have it set to keep, which
keeps the project tempo even though you do tempo
changes in your playing.
But if you want Logic to listen to the transients
of your playing, and to the tempo of your playing.
You can select this adapting style, this adapt
project tempo or the auto, automatic mode.
If you want to do more deep settings, you
can go in to the smart tempo project settings
here.
Where you can also read up on how this different
modes will behave.
But for this video we're going to use the
adapt project tempo. And you can see that
this also turn into some kind of orange/yellow
colour.
Here you can also set the default setting
for flex and follow reading settings.
But we're not going to use these at the moment.
Okey, let's see here, how this adaptive tempo
works.
Okey, so for this recording i'm intentionally
going to play Rubato or with a flowing tempo.
So i'm going to accelerate the tempo in the
beginning and then de- accelerate or play
a more rubato at the ending of this little
recording.
So let's just hit the record button here and
be sure to depress Metronome, because we want
to be un-tight.
[Music playing]
Yeah, so that's a little recording.
And now we can see that since we activated
adapted tempo, if we select this keyboard recording.
We can have the normal piano roll, score, step
editor...and also smart tempo.
So here we can see the transients for the
beat detection and we have the option to change
this tempo mapping.
To actually see the tempo of this track we
press this little icon up here which will
reveal the tempo.
I started quite slow at 88 BPM, then we drifted into 90 BPM, up to 92 and 99 BPM and then
back to 92,89 up to 94 and then the crescendo
here.
Okey, so we need to fix a few things here,
we need to fix the timings here.
Let's play it from the beginning here, we
can set a marker.
So we need this downbeat to be at this chord,
so we can just scale move left and right.
So we scale this to the right side here, let's
listen again.
And we can do the same thing to this downbeat,
just move this downbeat to the right here...
And we can move this one a little to the left
maybe, so it maps up more accurately.
[Boring editing...fast forward a bit.]
[Ok, so what do we have?]
Deaccelerando ;)
Fixing the end...
Then we can just move this to the right, so
we have the same slow tempo at the ending.
Okey, so now we can add drummer to this and
see how it maps up to the tempo.
So we just add a drummer track here and press
the + sign to add the drum-track.
(Music playing)
Okey, so that's a quite drastic
exempel but it shows you that Logic can effectively
map up the tempo to your playing.
And if you have a very sloppy drummer this
can be useful, so you can have the midi mapping
up to that sloppy and sluggish drummer.
Okey, so let's look at another exempel!
Maybe we have just regular track, we have
it to "keep project tempo" at the beginning
and maybe we record some shakers.
Without the Metronom.
[Shaking the shaker...]
And again i'm intentionally
increasing and decreasing the tempo there.
You can see that the tempo is 87...or something,
let's reset it to 120 and now we want to map
our tempo to the playing here.
So it's currently not set to a specific smart
tempo here, we press this edit button so we
can edit the transients or the transient detection
for this audio clip.
So here we can set the downbeat to, let's
listen.
We need the downbeat to this transient.
We can move this a little bit to the right,
so you can fix this so it perfectly matches
up the the transients...
Like that.
We can go to the file here and move the starting
point so it matches up to the first transient
here.
And now we can activate the function here
called snap region to absolute value.
So we can move this clip and have it snapped
to the beginning of this bar, of this beat.
Let's go to smart tempo again...
Yeah, so that can due for now, let's see if
we can make the tempo follow this.
So what you do here is, you set this to, you
have this to keep project to tempo.
But we can always right-click here and set
tempo apply region tempo to region tempo.
And now you get this little pop-up this function
applies the tempo of the selected region to
the project tempo.
It can also aline the region to the downbeat.
So I just press apply here and now we can
see that tempo, the tempo drifting I had in
my shaker playing is applied to the global
tempo.
Okey, So let's add some drums and see how
drums can match up to our floating, shaker
tempo.
We can actually expand this tempolane so that
we can see all the BPM changes here and we
need some drums in there.
(Music playing) Okey so I think the tempo
mapping worked out quite well in this case.
Yeah, so that's how powerful the smart tempo
feature is in Logic Pro X.
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feature or Logic in general, please write
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My name is Mattias, thanks for watching.
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