DAW: easiest/fastest way match up tempos of an acapella & instrumental?

jlotto · 18th January 2004

In a DAW what is the easiest/fastest way match up tempos of an acapella & instrumental using time compress-exp/pitch shifting or whatever tools r available?

jazzius II · 18th January 2004

timestretch/compress one to fit the other.

There are lots of different ways to do this.......tell us what tools you have available and someone'll tell you the best way to do it.

Magnus · 18th January 2004

Even if you timestretch the acapella to the right tempo you still might get small tempo variations in the vocals because of the timstretch algorithm. Then you have to move stuff around and listen until it sounds right. Depends on how "tight" you want the vocal to be.

jlotto · 18th January 2004

For this I am using Samplitude 7.2 I assume first I have to figure out the tempos of each by highliting start to end point & using grid?

jazzmitts · 18th January 2004

I would suggest Melodyne as being the easiest, fastest most effective solution.
By detecting the individual notes, they will be appropriatley shifted (stretched,squeezed,pitch-shifted, audio quantised) as opposed to beat/phrase-based adjustment.
I've often used DP for time stretch stuff and its pretty good, also got Sam 7.21 but Melodyne…

Checkout the demo etc. at:-

http://www.celemony.com/

-john

jlotto · 18th January 2004

thanks- melodyne looks promising, was hoping good old samplitude can handle it.

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jazzius II Lives for gear Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,002	timestretch/compress one to fit the other. There are lots of different ways to do this.......tell us what tools you have available and someone'll tell you the best way to do it.

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Magnus Gear addict Joined: Jun 2003 Location: Sweden Posts: 371	Even if you timestretch the acapella to the right tempo you still might get small tempo variations in the vocals because of the timstretch algorithm. Then you have to move stuff around and listen until it sounds right. Depends on how "tight" you want the vocal to be.

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jazzmitts Gear interested Joined: Oct 2003 Location: Cologne Posts: 26	I would suggest Melodyne as being the easiest, fastest most effective solution. By detecting the individual notes, they will be appropriatley shifted (stretched,squeezed,pitch-shifted, audio quantised) as opposed to beat/phrase-based adjustment. I've often used DP for time stretch stuff and its pretty good, also got Sam 7.21 but Melodyne… Checkout the demo etc. at:- http://www.celemony.com/ -john