On Mon, 2016-12-26 at 12:32 +0000, Pietro Bergamo wrote: > Hi. > In my (not so big) experience, "fluid" tempos and pulses are really > hard to sync, as Ralf said. > I recorded recently a song with many tempo/measure changes and I > couldn't find any way to make organically. In the end, I kind of > cheated. On a rallentando, for instance, I split the measures in > several pieces so that the metronome would count the eight notes or > the sixteenth notes, thus making it easier to follow the pulse when > recording. For each situation, I tried to find a (often different) > solution. But I prepared the whole tempo track all in numbers, not > through any kind of tapping or beat detection. > For me, tapping the tempo (or recording an audio with it) doesn't > work very well because I find it hard to replicate the intention I > had when I'm playing a different instrument. I find it even harder > when other people are going to play. An "artificial" tempo is, for > me, always easier to predict, making the recording more precise and > demanding less editing. In the end, I think it sounds more natural > this way. > But, as I said, I'm not that experienced, so maybe there are better > solutions out there. > I hope this was of some help. > Best regards, > Pietro
I don't really see how an "artificial" pulse can sound more natural than a human one, but that isn't really an option for what I am trying to do in any case. The pieces I want to record are my own compositions (dating back half a century in some cases!) and I know exactly how I want them to be played, much as a conductor will know exactly the variations and subtleties of tempo (s)he wants. I don't think I shall have any difficulty keeping with the recorded pulse - after all, once one instrument is recorded then playing the second instrument and staying with the first is only what musicians without a conductor do all the time. And, as I said, in my head I know already how this music "should" go. What I wanted to acheive was simply to get the midi beats to correspond (roughly) to the actual beats of the music itself - rits, accelerandos and all. The purpose of this is just to make it easier navigating in, say, qtractor: if I want to make a change at beat 3 of bar 246 then it will be easy to find. As I said, I can probably do this with a Python program, but I didn't want to spend time writing that if there is something available already. The program would need a track consisting only of beats. This click-track could be recorded before or after the first track of actual music has been recorded - the pros and cons of that choice have nothing to do with what I wanted to do with it. I wasn't suggesting that I would necessarily want to play by trying to follow an artificial click track: the click track could be recorded before or after the recording of one or more music tracks. Anyway, thanks for your interest and comments. David -- ubuntu-studio-users mailing list ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
