Tempo Inconsistencies

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Anyway, I've got 5 tracks in CEPro 2 right now. For the first track I got the metronome to play at 110bpm, had that come out of my earphones, and played guitar along to it. For the second track, I played the metronome with the guitar over it in my earphones, and played the second guitar line to that. Still no problems. I then did two vocal tracks in the same manner. So far so good. When I played them all back everything was lined up properly.

Then I burnt that on a CD, (with the metronome still running at 110bpm), and took the CD downstairs into the basement to play drums to it.. I recorded the drum track on my multitrack, (to the CD which I listened to on my discman), and then went from multitrack to line-in on my computer.

Anyway, the first 4 tracks still line up, except when I click on the wave properties, all 4 tracks have different tempos.. all slight variations of 110, like 109.9, 109.6, 110.1, etc.. The drum track is apparently at 109.9, but it sounds like it's going about 110 and won't line up at all.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong, and how to correct it? I'm looking for demo/freeware that will edit the tempo of all the individual waves and bring them up to 110bpm.. That should work, right?
 
The problem is that you used a lot of different gear with cheap clocks.

CEP will allow you to stretch the wav without changing the pitch. I don't think you can do it based on tempo, though. You'll have to do some math and figure out by what percentage the track is off.

It might be easier to just make some loops out of the drum tracks and use those. It's a lot easier to sync up smaller chunks then to get an entire track to match up. Chances are that the small tempo difference may not even be consistent enough to apply the same stretch to the entire track.
 
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