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Hi, Looking for a little help on tempo correction. I recorded a live performance (mp3) of a hawaiian tribal dance at a Luau while in Maui. It was a really cool beat and I wanted to work it into a song and add my own beats and synths on top of it. The only problem is that it was live so the tempo is all over the place. It fluctuates at around 90 to 98 bpm. Is there any software that can quantize the beats of a live performance and bring them all under a consistent tempo and still maintain correct pitch. I'll have a hell of time laying tracks down over this thing if I have to do it all on the fly. I googled around on this and saw mention of Pro Tools but I don't have that. I am working with either Sonar 2, FL studio 7, Reason or Wavelab. Any suggestions on software or techniques to fix this would be appreciated.

 

Thanks,:confused:

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Elastic Audio in Pro Tools can do this. Here's how I'd go about doing it...

 

I'd try to best estimate the average tempo. Set the session tempo to what your target tempo is. Now, while looking at the transient markers from Elastic Audio try to see where the tempo really gets off. Really gets off. If it's after a bar... so be it. In Waveform view, separate the region right at the transient for the next bar. Slide the long region to the right, out of the way. Now use Elastic Audio to conform that one bar to you session tempo. Don't straighten out all the subdivisions or you'll rob the performance of what you dig about it in the first place. Repeat.

 

Obviously, if you can do conforming with an 8 bar phrase, go for it. Then, if inside those 8 bars there are major drift issues, you can straighten those out. Just the top of every bar should get you to the tempo but still leave you with original feel.

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