Normalize Tempo (voice memo to pre-production)

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I'm a songwriter who frequently records song ideas on my iphone's voice recorder. It's usually a couple minutes of me playing piano and singing.

When I really like a voice recording, I'll go to Pro Tools and try to record a professional-sounding version. The problem is that I never capture all that I loved about the original voice memo. It's the little nuances I struggle to recreate that often made the original memo cool in the first place.

So I want to just load the iphone voice memo into pro tools and overdub it. The problem is that my iphone voice memos are never played to any tempo, so they are off-rythm.

Does anyone know of a software/plug-in that will take an off-rythm recording (one of my iphone voice memos), and make it so that the whole track is set to some tempo?

Sincere thanks in advance


ps.
While we're on the topic, I struggle to stay on rhythm, even with a metronome and quantizer. Anyone know of some miracle quantizer that would solve the problem.
 
shootfreethrows said:
I struggle to stay on rhythm, even with a metronome and quantizer. Anyone know of some miracle quantizer that would solve the problem.
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There's one called "practice".

Hopefully someone else will come along and help you with the other issue. I don't have an Iphone, so I have no idea.
 
Ahhhhh....it's hard to recreate iPhone magic in a studio setting.

Just put the iPhone on top of the Pro Tools rig....and imagine you're still recording to the iPhone instead of Pro Tools.
 
You could always just make a tempo map based off the iPhone's performance using Identify Beat.
 
What Rami said - practice. Stop looking for a magic bullet. It doesn't exist.
 
You would have to tempo map the original performance because, if you quantize the vocal part to the grid, you will lose the original feel.

But if you do that, depending how messed up the tempo is, the song will sound strange because it speeds up and slows down.

Quite frankly, if the song/melody is any good, it will stand on its own, even without your magic inflections that you can't seen to repeat.
 
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