Logic Pro X - Video Tutorial 18 - Flex Time Part 1 - Polyphonic and Monophonic

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[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

Episodes 18 and 19 are up! They cover Flex Time in Logic Pro X.

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[@vincent_vidal]

Ok, wow!!! Man, I’ve been having issues for years when I quantize my acoustic guitars. They seemed like they were recorded underwater! So I stumbled upon this video and it’s an easy fix: use polyphonic and check the complexity box! It worked! I see this video has been out for a while, but thanks sir for your help!

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[@nonmusicknonlaif]

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[@tecnica-de-voz]

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[@gregorheinrich]

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[@chadwickcadet5214]

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[@Zoesstuff]

Super helpful - completely forgot how to use flex time in Logic - thank you!

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[@dwightddddd]

Thank you for your upload. When editing vocals we get clicks and pops when using monophonic mode in Flex Time. Don't get these problems when using Elastic time in Pro Tools. Something seems to be up with Logic algorithms.

[@petergreen1869]

Apparently if you use in polyphonic mode the problem disappears.

[@nomnomtutorials6884]

Thank you so much! Your videos are great and I was actually struggling with moving the transients.

[@whackamole]

Great vid. Nicely succinct, but very informative. Thank you. You are a MASSIVE help for learning Logic.

[@amado5490]

Great tutorial. It must be said that sometimes the flex tool gets it wrong and kinda messes up your bass line a bit. This is why I rarely ever quantize above 1/4. The manual revision and edit must be done either way imho.

[@1970sixMusic]

Another great video!!! Thank you.

[@ShirinDelsooz]

Excellent video once again! I can make any live performance sound perfect thanks to this!

[@Blondesax]

I wish I'd known about the quantization function there. I've been doing all of these manually.

[@gkillmaster]

most excellent tutorial. concise and informative. Thanks very much! Helps a lot.

[@stevehowarth8470]

Could you please show this method regarding getting an acapella in time? Your tutorials are the best man!!!

[@teetosh]

Excellent teaching going on here!

[@SydDante]

Thanks for this man, I'm learning about editing my guitars better and flex time is such a long and arduous task, but given enough thought it doesn't have to be.

[@sound_coop]

This has been really helpful - thank you

[@markaugustus4064]

Very helpful! Thanks a million! Hated the opening music.

[@philippofranchini932]

Thank you SO much ...your videos are awesome, very clear teaching style .

[@RichieSelmo]

I do not understand why in any video that touches on this topic they explain to you what to do when you finish doing the flex correction. How do you consolidate that and transform it back into a normal audio region

[@EuMeChamoPedro]

Thank you so much for this!! Subscribed!

[@LionelCartwright]

Excellent instruction. Thank you!

[@marinaserra9508]

flex is amazing.

[@thesoundofapollo]

Awesome tutorial. Very clearly spoken and easy to follow. One question... Just as you said with polyphonic how you can turn on the complex setting for better quality, I notice with monophonic there is no complex box you can check off rather it says percussive. What does this do?

[@outsetbandits7615]

shit sounded literally perfect

[@nebulagtproductions]

Great tutorial! Thank you very much.

[@Kakaxxx222]

why does my flextime-quantized guitar still sound under-water like, even though I have "complex" enabled?

[@stevendevries1395]

Excellent training. Thank you.

[@superproducerd.z7403]

I will say that a solo instrument should be monophonic. Polyphonic would be used for drums or a full song (multiple instruments). The algorithm will work better.

[@errolthompson3639]

Good job dude really clear and concise

[@88KeysMan]

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[@MrEcted]

Nice tutorial, fixing timing issues with this has become a bit too easy! Now I can suck on my instruments with reckless abandon!

[@Chipirripi]

So du I ;P

[@bassdude78]

@MrEcted haha

[@craigseganti8999]

Thank you, well-explained.

[@romainsicard686]

That helped me so much! Thank you sir!

[@augustovera85]

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[@Iamdjaps]

my flex just doesnt work at all, nothing happens when I turn it on and nothing happens when I try to use different options....Is there something in settings I need to do? Thanks

[@CCRForeverTribute]

I'm guessing the quantize only works in the tracks were originally recorded with a click track or?

[@EricavonTrapp]

super helpful video thank you!

[@JamEZmusic86]

Holy crap...... I feel like a big dirty cheat for knowing this trick now. I am going to try to stay away from this feature though. Unless I mess up a mic recording and can't be bothered to set up everything again for a re-take. haha, cool vid. I'm watching all of these in order, learning a lot. Thank you.

[@meljustdiit]

thank you for sharing this video.. can I do the same for vocals too ?

[@The62gretschgent]

Hi MusicTechHelpGuy....I find your Logic Pro X video tutorials so helpful, so thank you. I've just completed editing an audio track (acoustic rhythm guitar) in polyphonic mode with complex selected having never used Flex Time before. Do you cover Bounce In Place in detail in one of your videos? I'm a little confused about how to approach the Bounce In Place dialog box.

[@brunofabris3144]

I would pay for this and would be happy, thank you so bad for this.

[@vazen33]

Never mind. It doesn't show when an audio region has take folders that have not been flattened/merged

[@oblyviapa]

should flex time be applied before any reverb or effects on guitar track time correction? Same with vocals and all the signal chain on vocals. Should the flex time be done first? thank you so much, best youtube channel out there for musicians!

[@SteveH4es]

Yes. It’s easier to hear things not in time.

[@cister1]

You are the best!!! thank you so much!!! Great help :))

[@mxfxdlg]

Ok, I’ve applied flextime/editing to a six channel drum recording. But when I “save” it, then turn off the flex feature. The edit disappears and the transients snap right back to their original places. How can continue with flex edited tracks, without having to keep flex on and continuously using all that processing power?

[@kendallcrane5633]

Awesome! great video

[@domenicocusumano]

Hey dude love your videos they are really great but this one in particular is done very well. The only problem I have with the idea of flex time is that it seems to me that maybe learning to play in time is probably more important and less time consuming than actually having to go through all this work.

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

There isn't a musician on this planet that can play perfectly to the grid -- we're all human, and we'll sometimes be off time. I agree that learning to play in time, recording multiple takes, and then making minor corrections is the best way to go; however, I'm not going to turn down a client if they can't play perfectly to the grid. That means I lose money.

[@domenicocusumano]

MusicTechHelpGuy I get you :)

[@rickmg2552]

There are complex passages I want to play on guitar, that I can hear, but it would take me 3 months to get my chops up to the point I could play them. I can do it in 20 minutes in flex time. Use whatever way works best. I've got lots of life to live and can't spend it all on practice, unfortunately! :-)

[@RobertoDAlessandro]

Thanks alot for you videos! Very helpful :)

[@bobbymarino]

question ? ..a little off topic...but, how would i get or find that guitar tone of the music, at the beginning of this video ?

[@iamadz1]

What are your thoughts on manually flex timing polyphonic instruments such as Pianos? Would this introduce any weird artifacts?

[@bouncer812]

Thanks! This was great!!

[@Mathias.Ramfelt]

Thank you! Great video :)

[@RYANROOTPHOTO]

MusicTechHelpGuy, I have a song comprised of one shots for the drums, everything is played to a click yet the drums (specifically the kick and ride) feel a little stiff arm and not relaxed enough. Is there a way to isolate those tracks and relax them quantization wise as to play a bit more "in the pocket"?

[@WesleyWestMusic]

Awesome! Thanks so much!

[@danielpuddick4493]

Hi - Thanks. This is really useful. When previewing your results, is there a way to preview each individual region or flex area? I can, of course play the entire final result, or hit play at a point. But if I want to listen to a single flex to check it is not spilling into a new note, I can not find out if this can be done. Or even loop a separate flex by way of a preview.

[@dustinjaques6394]

Wow thanks, this is very helpful

[@Yahoomediaclub]

Tricky, but well explained👍

[@lpokiiim]

Nice vid . Very helpful

[@ericducoff1483]

I have a doubled guitar track that I'd like to tighten up, but the song isn't locked to the grid. Do I need to beat map the entire song first, or can I use Flex Time to just lock one of the guitar tracks in closer with the other.

[@alexandermildh4819]

Hey man! Thank you for all these great vids! I have a degree in guitar but not recording, and yeah this is so helpful! . Taking notes for every episode now testing and applying stuff learned from you crash courses! Wouldn't mind to donate money for all your effort Big thank you from Sweden!

[@davidvaleriecarpenter974]

Helpful, thank you!

[@herb39hs]

man where & how did you learn all this its awesome

[@shoshanawill124]

why would you use monophonic mode on the bass?

[@Metalpazallteway]

After using the transient marker button and fixing or resetting the markers, how do you re quantize in order for them to be fixed completely in one shot as once as you mentioned at the end of the vid. Which button do you press? Or does the system do it automatically once you finish moving the markers?

[@marie-clairesaindon5242]

Hey MusicTechHelpGuy! I have an issue with Monophonic Flex Time, I was wondering if you'd have an answer. Basically I'm trying to change the tempo by a good 30bpm at the beginning of an audio track where the (young) singer didn't start singing in the same tempo than later in the same song. I opened a new session, picked a tempo appropriate for most of the audio track, import the audio track, and all is good. I open Flex Mode, and it automatically chooses Slice (which I don't want, as it cuts up the audio file instead of stretching or crunching). The issue is when I turn on the Monophonic Flex Mode - the tempo of the audio file suddenly changes! When I imported the file originally, Logic X asked me if I wanted to import the file's tempo information, and I said no. I also made sure to go in Edit -> Tempo -> Remove Tempo Information From Audio File, and still, as soon as I hit Monophonic Flex, the tempo speeds up. Do you (or anyone else) have any idea what could be affecting this? Thanks!

[@marie-clairesaindon5242]

(Note: in the first paragraph, whenever I say "audio tracl" I should have said "audio file" - the short song is all just one 30s audio file)

[@victoriatrestrail]

thank you so much

[@OFICIAL_SETH]

i have a problem! when i add transient to the audio track I click on one area and the transient bar appears no exactly in the place i put it, when I drag audio to quantize it manually it happens the same, doesnt go to zero, its a little before or a little after i dont know what to do!!!

[@jgreen2571]

Great videos on Flex. Question! I'm working with a pre-recorded audio track that I've tempo-adjusted to stay with the timing grid. I'd like to quantize the track but as soon as I turn on Flex (poly mode) the track speeds up drastically and goes off the timing grid. Is this what Flex is supposed to do?

[@thecamilosanchezproject]

I have the same issue. Did you manage to solve it??

[@RcKDrUmm3R]

For some reason when I quantize my guitar parts, they just don’t sound right. I tried doing what I figured would work with 8th notes and 16th notes but It sounds a lot better without quantize. Could it be that I need to change modes? Like use slicing or monophonic?

[@harald144]

Does this work with acoustic piano, where you underdivides (dont know the english word) in for example both the bass and the discant. Or will the quantification sound unnatural ?

[@BruceKaplan]

Great tutorial, thanks - this is helpful. But here's my question - let's say I recorded without a click, so the recording bears no relationship to the defau;let 120 bpm setting. How can I determine the real average tempo, and change the grid, and then finally quantize to the true bpm (without actually speeding up or slowing down the audio)? Is there another tutorial that goes into this? (I think maybe I should start at tutorial #1!)

[@MusicTechHelpGuy]

Check out my two videos on beat mapping. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJqpmHd3q6-YhbM

[@harrycallaghan22]

Why does my flex icon stay blue? It doesn't appear to be behaving properly. I have imported an audio sample and it won't stretch the audio. Logic Pro X 10.2.3.

[@mdlumpkin]

yeah, mine's blue too. did you manage to sort it?

[@ErForce1]

Hey man! Wondering if you'll be able to help? I track my guitars to two separate tracks - DI and Wet Signal (to which I route my Fractal AX8). I use the DI to see whether I am on the time or not (which more often than not I am ain't.. haha). Is there a way to edit my mistakes on the two tracks simultaneously? Meaning - to manually edit the transients on the DI track and have it affect the wet signal track as well? Thanks in advance! Eran

[@chriswftdj]

Brilliant!

[@CologneRob]

Please help - when i`m done with Flex Timing or quantize audio, how can i make a region copy that results Flextime process into a new Audio file without the need of processor power after that. Or ist flex time only working when it`s active? i want to make the region working fine, and then i want it to play later without the need of processor power to save my small computer power.

[@jonasvm]

i have an issue especially for low end instruments, i.e. kick drum and bass guitar. i get a click/pop at the beginning of a transient. do you know what causes this and how it is solved? i have found nothing on this on youtube.

[@russwilson2305]

Cool riff.

[@TheVigilantStewards]

nice video thank you

[@vazen33]

When I enable flex time on my gtr tracks it doesn't show the display that came up on your screen showing transient markers etc... Also in the region drop down menu there is no quantize option...what's the issue?

[@nopeanuts]

Same issue here. Any luck finding an answer? It must be some setting, but I've read several forums and haven't come across an answer. Thanks!

[@ajoel172]

Thanks, gr8 job.