First Post -- Creating a Click Track with Multiple BPM's

[pidgeyh]

Hello fellow musicians and technicians.

My bandmate and I have finally made a successful recording setup, and are finally able to get a good sound. We've begun playing around with our equipment and figuring out ways to get the best sound out of it. One thing we noticed is getting in time is hard, keeping in mind we haven't used a click track with our current set up, and that would be the obvious answer.

A huge problem, but kinda awesome, is our songs switch bpms multiple times during the song (4 or 5 times for a few). In past recording attempts, we've used FL Studios 10 by making multiple project files with a soundfont on each beat, exported the track, and put them together in audacity to get a single track with multiple bpms. In the end, it ended up being a nuisance due to being off a single beat, or trying to find out where in the track an extra beat was, etc.

We're trying to figure out the best way to record using a click track that either changes tempo, or just record the song in multiple parts using a single click track.

Any helpful information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much!

 

[bouldersoundguy]

In Pro Tools you can make a tempo map with the tempo changes and make the click follow it.

 

[Guitargodgt]

Most modern daws are going to let you do tempo changes. Even lite versions.

Cubase can do either an instant jump, or a gradual ramp over a time frame of you choice to the next tempo.

Pro tools, logic, studio one, reason, reaper etc... they all will do it as well. I'm not a huge fan of how pro tools does tempo ramps but that's another topic.

The big problem here is you never said what daw you wanted to use, you just said "we've used FL Studios 10" and I don't know if you still wanted to or not.

 

[Seidy]

You can automate tempo in FL too. Right click on tempo->create automation clip. Search for tempo automation clip in Playlist window (F5), edit it and voila.

 

[Greg_L]

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