Tempo Matching When Importing MIDI

[Movies]

I have a song (all acoustic instruments except for piano) that is, at any given time, somewhere between 65 and 100bpm.

I sent a friend a .wav file of the nuanced click track to record the piano, he loaded it into Ableton, and recorded a MIDI part to it, which he then sent back to me as a .mid to import into DP. When he was recording the MIDI, Ableton was set to a static 120bpm (the only click he heard was my wav).

Long story short: The only way his part is in time in DP, obviously, is if I'm at 120bpm. I've tried importing the track with and without conductor track data.

What's the best way to go about getting the real-time part back into my DP project file?

[Shooshie]

1) Create a separate chunk at 120 bpm and paste in the track.
2) Turn on the Conductor Track and set it to 120 bpm.
3) Either Record Beats or Adjust Beats so that the barlines are made to line up with the notes and beats in the music.
4) Copy the adjusted track and paste it into your original chunk. The bar lines and beats should be pretty close to identical. You can quantize or manually move those notes that seem out of place.

There are other ways to adjust the beats on his track once its in the new chunk, such as recording yourself clapping (or beating a drum or using a drum kit on your synth) to the time of the music, then using DP's beat recognition to automatically place the beats.

I prefer Record Beats, then touching it up with Adjust Beats, but any way you can make it happen is a good way.

Shooshie

[Movies]

Thanks, Shooshie!

I saw your article on Adjust Beats in the Tips thread, but I wasn't sure that it's what I needed.

I appreciate the step-by-step!

[Shooshie]

By the way, that movie in the Adjust Beats article has drifting audio, and it's as irritating as heck to watch it. I guess I really ought to remake that, now that I can upload movies that stream online without drifting. If you can somehow ignore the drifting audio, it may get the point across. Good luck!

Shooshie

[Movies]

Just thinking about it, if I have a wav of the full click, can I import the MIDI track and the click into a chunck, use beat-detection analyze the click, and then record or somehow force the conductor track to conform to the click?