Logic Pro X - Match Loop Tempo with BPM Counter and Flex Time

[@artprojectsnz]

Great simple explanation yet again…..just a hint too - hitting V will disappear/hide (not close) plug ins…less mouse action! I love this in so many instances. Cheers. JPMusic.

[@sgranzo2]

BPM counter!! i didn't even know it exist! usually i went in the tempo menu and check the tempo of the selected region, but i was not always correct in the interpretation... thanks for your tutorials Josh, useful and well explained as always!

[@sixwaveholddown]

I literally said wowwwww when you made the envelope trick work! Super solid stuff!!

[@ZestyMuffins]

Thank you. Looked for about an hour to find a video like this... surprised there are not more on this topic. subbed.

[@adanezi1]

Just what I have been looking for. Can't wait to try this. Thank you for quick and easy presentation

[@allthrillzent2818]

Thank you so much. you are the only one who explained this process easy.

[@teamsiwall958]

Thank you.......saved me hours of searching and trying to figure this out........much help to a newbie!.

[@sliiiimjim]

That was a very handy tutorial, thanks very much!

[@praveenchaddha]

Love your tutorial bro... clarity of thought hence clear explanation of things. Best

[@glenncarr4514]

Thanks so much for this amazing, amazing series of Logic Pro X tutorials. The package is enormous and your information is so helpful! It has saved us hours of hard slog. Cheers Mate from Glenn & Dave.

[@Renjyrzn]

thx tor this tip ! didnt know how to stretch sample of differents BPM in the same session !

[@onairmastering]

Been cursing Flex out for not doing what I want it to do, this makes it clear, thanks!

[@scubasteve1208]

OMG THANK YOU! THIS WAS AMAZINGLY HELPFUL.

[@pradyumnamulpur]

This changed everything. Thanks a lot!

[@zamundatunes8176]

Thanks for being so helpful 👍🏾👍🏾

[@LuckyFilms]

DUUUUUUUUDE thank you so much!! Trying to figure this shit out before made me so impatient. I had no idea bpm counter existed.

[@khrix1185]

Thank you...this is the best way to do it compared to the other videos I watched

[@KINGDOMKONCEPT]

sometimes my bpm counter doesn't work. so what I've learned to do is hit file tempo and hit analyze so it will find the tempo that way.

[@ybou14]

Amazingly useful !... Looks like you were borned in Logic !... How many hours a day do you spend on this ?...Anyway, thanks so much for all the useful cues, very appreciated Josh !

[@JimGramze]

Very cool. The hard way is to adjust the tempo until the metronome syncs up precisely. This is much faster and is great even if it doesn't always work on all material.

[@joel1974]

Absolute Life Saver of a Tutorial!!!!

[@ransx91]

This is EXACTLY what I need this week! I download a loop and the bpm doesnt match :( but now I know what to do :D THANKS! (Y)

[@evandugosh5646]

you can just option click and drag the end of the region and mess around with that as well. it's more useful when there is good transient data obviously like in drums, but i get samples in time all the time from just a rough option + click drag and then make further adjustments via flex time.

[@thestylesworld]

Thanks for the tutorial, appreciated 👍

[@jessetimmmiller1870]

Super helpful, as always. Thanks, Josh!

[@spongebobber1000]

Great tutorial! I was looking for a method to sync the tempo of multiple acapellas to an instrumental track using flextime and not have to use the "Time and Pitch" Tool, which doesn't sound as good as flextime! Thanks!

[@tyrosebtc]

Awesome, I totally did this with a full song I recorded that I lost .... Luckily, I had the AIFF .So I was like hmmm, what is the tempo??? Now I can rerecord over the reference track at the original tempo🤘🏻Thanks!!!

[@brodahoodrecords1003]

Nuff respect mannn, your videos are so helpful

[@johnnydeformed7123]

Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you.

[@michaos1]

Thanks god there is a new 10.4 version that analyzes file tempo automatically, so you don't have to do any shaman dancing to figure out the BPM of each individual audio track. Also, you can tap the tempo while a file is playing (need to set a keyboard shortcut).

[@jeffhirata]

Great video. This also works for changing the tempo of an entire song if you have midi, apple loops and recorded audio. You could do a separate video on just that since it's so helpful (if you haven't already). Thanks!!!

[@vewilli]

Very cool, not only cool. Thanks. Seems to be a good help for my needs.

[@Vin4227]

Sigh! That's one one issue with Logic when it comes to tempo matching.. In Reaper, Instead of going thru all of that shenanigans ,u simply turned on the 'Match Tempo' mode in Reaper and u good to go, every loop automatically matches the tempo.. Makes your life far easier. .

[@ShouquatImon]

Thank you so much. Amazingly useful!

[@lxcruze]

great no nonsense just wha i was looking for your awesome fam!

[@azstratus1]

Nice that helped immensely!!! Great video!

[@Khakanmusic]

Very helpful man, thanks a lot for making this tutorial.

[@LIVibingYoo]

This was an extremely helpful video, bro

[@magicandy2003]

Very well explained, love this video

[@wabi-sabi6429]

You just fixed my life! thank you

[@dreaming1931]

You are a Brilliant Help Guy Thank you.

[@bennyaruba3449]

great trick with the bpm counter there I'll try it out

[@aravindakumarvm]

AWESOME @MUSICTECHHELPGUY!!!!!!!!!

[@jcr1time]

Thanks. But for some reason when i download wav files from splice sounds they wont adjust to tempo?

[@ElvinHartman]

thanks bro great video

[@claudiosouza21]

parabens! muito bom. eu tava proucurando algo sobre o assunto. como eu sou escrito antes da busca voce postou o video. obrigado.

[@ericgcastile]

Great Tutorial

[@charleymarkson]

@MusicTechHelpGuy I have a situation that I wanted to see if you had a better solution for utilizing Flextime. I've recorded ten songs to a click on an 8 track tape machine. I thought if I save the original click track & a bounced reference on two channels of the tape, when I fill up the tracks I could dump the tracks into logic Then continue recording over the remaining six tracks then dump those, repeatedly. Then align the tracks later (keeping phase in mind.) Well, I did not know about TAPE DRIFT! :/ (For those who don't know it's an extremely subtle change in playback time caused by voltage & tape tension variation. So, I have been using Flextime fairly successfully to realign the tracks, but it's more tedious than I would like. After grouping & edit/quant locking each set of dumped tracks I figure out where the songs transitions are. I then manual place flex-markers at each transition in the composition. Then I manually "quantize" the each section to the appropriate marker in the project timeline. I then listen for any obvious drifts within a section & manually correct them with the same process. This has worked, but is there a better way to deal with this insane predicament?

[@deanjohnston104]

Ace. This helped heaps. Thanks a bunch.

[@melodyman8484]

Very informative vid man. Was looking for a way to sync a 2 track (full song) in Logic where I can add additional production to it.

[@fanarigo]

This is so good, thank you!

[@h-dawg969]

This is a really helpful tutorial... I used to use logic 9 about 2 years ago, but wasnt getting anywhere so pretty much packed it in. But I just got logic X, and have no clue about my way around it, seem pretty alien to me,but am going to spend time with your logic X playlist on your channel and hopefully get somewhere! Will this work for a nice hip hop drum beat I have found, that I want to put to 172 for a liquid drum n bass track? I'm guna sort through some samples that I think are the right vibes for the track im planning on trying to do, and then give it a go.... A lot of the nice hip hop pads etc are at 86, so they will work anyway... (Half time so will just work) but if I'm literally just using a sample as is, then it's not really guna be my production so to speak... What is the score / people opinions on using samples like what I mention? As there is no skill involved except a drag n drop, but its so temping as it can start sounding really nice under my dnb beat really quickly... But would the tune iv made technically be a piece of work done by me??? Or i it just cheating? As I have so many nice samples at 86 BPM, that work so well.... I'd rather play/make these sound myself, but my Keyboard skills (or lack of) really hold me back, and drawing it in takes so long that the creative flow is gone before anything is accomplished..... What are people thinking on this, should I just make a track with some samples as is, along side my own drum beats n bass synths + other synths, or is it just taking credit for something else. They are royalty free, there ok to use samples, but how much can I claim the tune is actually mine? Cheers for any helpful responses.... And Musictechhelpguy- you really are a good tutor for me going from logic 9 thats been untouched for about 2 years, to opening up Logic X, recently purchased, but im approaching as a complete newbie... So your vids are really helpful..... If any of you want to hear my "tunes / loops" from few years back when I was learning... Then go to soundcloud n search for artist named - Nicely formed sonic egg - (my house / 4 to the floor alias) and artist named The-afro-diet-act for my chilled/lounge/downtempo/randomness stuff (anything not 4 to the floor) and offer me any tips etc by private message. Sorry for the long comment but I really want to get back into production again, as I still Dj and run a monthly night in my area, but just never can get anything made that im happy with.... Please... any tips from people starting out from scratch on logic X would really be helpful... Thanks in advance, Harry... Email me at [e-mail]

[@zip7806]

You don't need to make an audio track to import a loop. Just drag it in, in the first place.

[@aepm01]

your amazing, thanks man:-)

[@benjamindebiasio5477]

Great video - clear and concise. THANKS! Can I ask what screen capture software you use?

[@RealChrisMalcolm]

Very detailed, thank you!

[@MarcoPolux]

This is a GREAT tutorial. Super useful, I just revisited it... didn't recall how equalize non divisible tempos (92bpm vs 110)

[@wavyheaddd]

very helpful, one love🙏🏼

[@essenzra7629]

Awesome!!! The Perfect tutorial!

[@AlpanBass]

alt cmd Z and T to find the bpm of any audio track or any audio loop...TRY

[@jrichey10]

Is there an easy way of figuring out the tempo of a sample, such as a short vocal sample (less than a bar)?

[@LondonEye07]

i think ..Duplicate the sample in 2-4 bar ... & then use bpm counter

[@thestylesworld]

Thanks for the tutorial 👍

[@musicproductionvideos5019]

Hi, Are the any downsides to using Flex & Follow "On & Align to bars & beats" all the time? Does it hit the CPU or slow down anything to have every track with flex on etc? I'd like to be able to work this way to ensure a smooth way of changing the whole project's tempo when asked to. I tried analyzing an older song and not all tracks played together. It was a mess. Also when & when not would you select the trim regions button? Thanks!

[@guidryjoseph44]

Thank you for the help but my bpm counter detected 97.5. How can I get Logic Pro x to round in tenths as well instead I'm having to put 97 which doesn't match perfectly.

[@avavago]

you probably already found an answer but 2:00 in this video explains it kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHfOnZRpm5KFpqc

[@NusretAtilganerMusic]

You re best!!

[@Bendavibes]

Really helpful 🙏

[@mvricks90]

Awesome man! been struggling so much trying to adjust different tracks to match lol..but one question; I used the envelope method on some vocals and other "builds" and it still won't detect even tho i maxed out like u did on the knobs. Any tips? Would be appreciated! Cheers

[@ryKirwan1]

Very helpful. Thanks👍🏼

[@joshuaj932]

this was extremely helpful

[@AWIANCE]

I like to sync BPM in Logic with Traktor Pro (Generic Midi = Traktor Virtual Output or IAC driver). Any idea?

[@eihthype6578]

I have a question that doesn’t necessarily pertain to this video, but is relative.. say you record a live drum track without metronome, is it possible to flex time the metronome to match the live take, rather than flex the take to the metronome? Hope that makes sense. I’m in a band that relies heavily on feel/push/pull, and the tempos are quite slow, so the click is a very important reference for guitar overdubs. But recording drums to the click always robs that element. So I’m searching for a way to set up the grid to the live performance. Figured if it was possible, musictechhelpguy would know!

[@eihthype6578]

Btw, I can’t thank you enough for you tutorials!! They have helped me in SO many ways.

[@JD-im2kh]

Mine will flash but it will not guess a bpm. The track I was sent has guitar and vocals. Does it not work if it was recorded with one mic vocals/guitar?

[@melodyman1662]

How I sync a drum loop to a full song after I removed silence and it does not start on 1 due to FX (winds/thunder) in the intro.

[@sarahbakermusician3076]

My apple loops do not conform to tempo changes that i make in a song. I'm trying to make a half time tempo change back to a fast tempo and it is not working.

[@PrashantJoshi]

Thanks for the video 👍

[@dj_tmc]

Thanks, helpful! I'm super new to Logic. Is there a reason you repeated a track w/ (cmd-R) instead of dragging the loop out with your mouse on the upper right of the track? Is that a newer feature than when the video was made, or is there more flexibility with how you did it?

[@leeioh]

Thanks for your help!

[@hucky29]

Can you do a tutorial on guessing Bpm of accapella and vox loops?

[@vewilli]

Well, the tempo of my song was found being 93,7, but I could only use 93 or 94. What can be done in that case. MusicTechHelpGuy has 265.000 subscribers, and imagine, everyone seeing this tutorial would ask a question. It's impossible for him to answer ... Perhaps there is someone else who reads this and knows what to do in this case. Thanx for the answer in advance.

[@Arsonloke]

I tried this exactly as you did it in the video but it didn't work for me

[@jonathantaylor5020]

Finding new secrets everyday.. Wow

[@eerolassila7632]

1:12 that’s how I actually name my every track

[@s.o793]

what if i have a vocal sample and i dont know the bpm and it wont detect the bpm on the bpm counter?

[@eliakaiser1290]

same question here

[@jimbeats_]

Bruh you know everything 😳

[@TheGRider56]

Fantastic!! Thank you!!!

[@samayyatri]

very very useful tutorial .

[@theowlfla]

Very handy thanks man !

[@jrichey10]

Also, if you drag the loop into the loop browser once you figure out the bpms and change the track tempo, would you get the same result as you did here?

[@mannymccash9660]

Crazy question: I have mostly finished tune project recorded at 155BPM, but would like to cut that in half (77.5 bmp) to get a simpler feel with Logic X drummer - can this be done? Or whatever method is available? thank you

[@millzboma]

Half time plugin.. or look up how to use logic pro to do half time on KZbin.. sorry 😞 this 2 yrs later. Just got here

[@marcham2802]

My bpm counter wont show a number at all. how do you start it. it just keeps blinking

[@rafbassplayer]

hay man just wondering how do i get my loops to go straight in to stereo output instead of me having to tern its on manual on the track

[@rod4226]

thank you so much man!

[@cerezosify]

how can i match a 80.5 tempo, logic is not accepting when i type it in. Thanks

[@rilm8222]

cerezosify Yo! Idk if you still need the answer, but a way to get around that on Logic is to just double that bpm. So if it’s 80.5, double that. It would be 161 bpm.

[@avavago]

you probably already found an answer but 2:00 in this video explains it kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHfOnZRpm5KFpqc

[@vem4o]

But if the beat and lets say the lyrics are at different BMP's you can not fix it like that without messing the song up , can u ?

[@pianoturnerrobert]

I noticed dmim what’s the difference between f or dmin

[@catherinebonfiglio7200]

helped so much thank ou!!!

[@KirkMcKinney]

I dont have the option for complex

[@kidhustle101]

The polyphonic option isnt showing please help

[@tenjisaga]

it's almost 2025 and there is still no "import to project tempo" function 😒

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

Open a new Logic Project. Click on "KEEP" in the top display, then go to "Smart Tempo Project Settings". Under "Set Imported Files to" - choose ON or ON + Align Bars. All outside content (Loops, etc) will automatically adapt to your projects' tempo.

[@tenjisaga]

@@MusicTechHelpGuy oh my god im so happy i want to cry right now. THANK YOUUUUU!!!!!

[@YraSanto]

Thank You!