This video is about to save my life. I can now program drums to the hundreds of demo tracks I have recorded on my phone, before re-recording all the guitars. I can actually program drums specifically to my tunes and playing style, rather than anticipate in writing the drum tracks first. I'm not a trained drummer, but I can write drum lines with some elbow grease. Then, I need to figure adjusting the tempo to what my final needs are. Sure, I can put it on a fixed tempo, but I want tempo variation, but a little more uniform than what I have right now. I have a bunch of parts that change tempo on a dime, but also speed up and slow down over time to add drama. That's my next goal. Anyhow, thanks a bunch for this tutorial. I actually got Mac/Logic just because your tutorials made sense to me.
Some people out there still believe Logic's Drummer plug-in is nothing but a toy. This video should prove them wrong. In my opinion the added Drummer track is an instant perfect fit. Another great tutorial Josh, thank you.
Yet another great video, Josh. Outstanding stuff. I really don't know how you find the time and energy to explore and find all this stuff out. Your mastery of Logic Pro X, Pro Tools, Melodyne, and countless plugins, is nothing short of astounding. And I've said it before and I'll say it again - you have a wonderful mastery of teaching, as well as a superbly modulated and clear voice. These are the best tutorials on UA-cam in my 'umble opinion :)
Fabulous video, thank you so much, this is exactly what I have been looking for. I completed an acoustic-heavy Garageband recording in 2005 but without a click track: layered multiple acoustics, I played drums and bass via key-in with my midi keyboard. In the end, the overall mix sounded great (imo) but you can hear the slight, occasionally clumsy, tempo changes. I want to redo the whole song to put onto Soundcloud, but with proper drums using the Drummer tool and tighter bass. I attempted to redo the song (with a click) from scratch in Logic Pro X this weekend but I simply cannot replicate the guitars or the excellent stereo effects from '05. So, I've decided that I want to use the original '05 tracks instead. But, the tempo varies so much that it can't work without utilizing this approach. Fingers crossed that I can make this work due to having so many tracks to Beat map. But onward ho, I expect many hours lay ahead. Thanks again for this lesson.
Only just getting back into music and pickup up on logic x having struggled with 9 feeling very bewildering. Came across your channel and I've got to say (as others have) your teaching style is supreme. The way you articulate the point with absolutely no faff or waffle is so powerful, logical (no pun intended) and clear. Perfect tempo and Straight to the point every time. Mastery in the extreme. So going to enjoy going through each and every one. Your simplicity is inspirational. Please keep doing it.
Josh, just want to add praise brother! This one gave me exactly what I needed to know. interesting thing about new logic's BPM counter...it doesn't work. It could be the recordings I tried it on, but I figured out a work around. Anyway, I'm really glad you are putting these incredible videos out there, cheers!
My word just doubled in size. I stubbled into the beat mapping by option today, hadn't ever heard it mentioned. Thanks for such a solid run down on it! Im stoked!
OMG! This is fantastic. I'm also a singer/songwriter with the same way of recording as the guy writing the mail. I've tried matching the audio with flex time but now I'll test this. I've known about the feature but not how to use it. Now I know thanks to you. Thank you so much! Keep up the great work!
this is one of the best videos on Logic I have ever seen. Thank you! I have been trying tow work out how to add drums to my audio (Guitar) for a year. Never imagined it would be so easy. And now they have added Free tempo recording into Logic it just got easier I guess. Thanks Josh.
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.
ah Man - you have no idea how much time you've saved me with this one lesson - thank you so much for this Logic series - I've gone form being a complete techno phobe to having the best fun ever
Just stumbled upon this and wow .. allowed me to complete a song that I wrote on acoustic guitar with an odd beat that I had left alone for almost 7 years! Excellent. And I am continuously astounded by the power of Logic.
Such a great video !! I would have never guessed this feature even existed never mind actually having it in Logic !!!!! Oh you kids today with your fancy computers !!! just an update , if you are using Logic Pro 10.6 , You have to enable Beat Mapping in Expert Editing Settings , but dont worry , Logic tells you and enables it for you if you use the short cut key : Shift - Command - B
I'm amazed, as a masters degree advanced production student and graduate, and actually a logic certified pro this is one thing I didn't know existed, though it makes perfect sense that it does. Very useful in particular for more free flow forms of music like jazz or even classical music in terms of composing accompaniment without destroying the material by overusing flex time. Thanks!
Thank you Sooooooo much for putting this up. I was looking at this all wrong. Trying to do it all with a click track and Flex Time, and messing up my creativity. This is a perfect solution for me.
Hey there, really good video. I'm a seasoned Logic user but never used beat mapping before until recently. Really easy to follow and the results are very encouraging...
Amazing man, really well explained. I always suggest to my friends who use Logic to check our your videos, they are for me the best ones about Logic Pro X. Do you actually give any online lessons?
Thanks for making this video! Very helpful stuff! Just wrapped up transcribing Lianne La Havas's "Wonderful" (which pulls from 80 - 95 and back down) on Garageband.. wish there was a handy trick on that DAW.
this is gold! p.s instead of choosing polyphonic/complex mode the way you do it, can you also as an alternative just go into the time+pitch machine and enter the digits of the new and "preferred" bpm? It seems to work
+Jon Tate MIDI Beat Clock controls tempos events in MIDI recordings and software instruments. It's universal, so it should work fine with any third-party instruments.
Do you think that a normal phone recording could be used for this ? Because then I can record a few versions of a song and choose an appropriate 'take' to use as a beat map. Then mute that track and record fresh over the beatmapped drums. Thanks. I will try anyway.Thank you for this great video
Hi I am Beat Mapping one of my favourite Neil Young tunes so I can follow his performance nuances. One frustrating thing I find is that I did the whole song and then went back to review a couple of notes which were not quite beat mapped correctly. But when I deleted the mapping it moved everything after it and so it was no longer lined up with the mapping I had done. Is there a way to 'lock' the mapping so that it sticks to a note you mapped it to?
Thanks for the video, real life saver! On some songs, though, for some reason it gives me a metronome time that's double what I need. Is there a quick fix for that? Thanx!!!
Yes, you can use the "Beat mapping" feature on any audio track (midi as well). Remember that it doesn't actually change the audio or stretch the audio. It keeps your performance of voice or guitar the same. Beat mapping is making the grid match your human performance so that the click track moves with your fluctuating performance.
Exceedingly useful video!! Question: once the beat has been mapped and you can see the variety of actual bpm bar to bar...what bpm do you use as a reference when you then bring in a second audio track to tempo stretch?
Is there a way to tempo map by tapping the tempo? I have a very busy track with distortion that Logic can't calculate the transients to properly. Tapping it out will be much easier in my case, as I can do it in minutes rather than taking hours. There is no drum beat and I'm playing rhythm and lead simultaneously, with all sorts of speed ups and speed downs throughout the whole song. I'm trying to ultimately turn this into a guide track to program drums and then re-record everything. It also doesn't help that the recording was originally done with my phone's mic.
Hi, very cool Info, Thank you. Is it possible to do beat mapping for multiple audio tracks? I recorded a Band with Drums, Bass, two Guitars and Vocals. Now i would like to beat map only the drums, then quantize the rest of the Instruments to that map with flex time. So far, flexing tracks to an existing map(the Drum Map) was only possible with tracks that i recorded AFTER the beat mapping. When i tried this in a project with all the Tracks already recorded and i did the beat mapping of the drums then, it did not work. I tried it a few different ways, but i did something wrong apparently.
I'm doing long 10-minute tracks of rhythm guitar in the new adapt mode in 10.4.6 and want to keep the varied tempo that was played. The problem I'm having is sometimes it misidentifies the tempo which makes it impossible to add a software instrument like a drum track to it. What is the best way to correct that? I haven't found any tutorials on editing the smart tempo when it's in need of correction
Greate video. I would like to ask you if you have a solution to beat map a piano and voice that were recorded with a free time at the same time. I would like to beat map only de piano. I can do it using the traditional beat map tool on the midi piano but meaby you found an easier way. Thanks a lot
Great video, but I'm missing something. I add a .mp3 file, open the global tracks, right click and add beat mapping, but I never see the transients. Am I missing a setting somewhere? I know I can select the 'analyze transients' option, but I like the idea that it happens automatically. Help!
This is awesome, thank you! The only problem im having is that, ill find a tempo in Drummer which is very close to what I want so I've got the feel of the song, say 70 bpm. I'll then record my rhythm guitar without any click or drum reference (trying for a more natural feel). But when logic analyses the take for beat mapping it is showing DOUBLE the tempo, I wonder why this is? I can get drummer to play at half speed so it matches want I want but this limits my options a lot Any ideas MTHG?
Hi. Anyway to put a live recording to a strict tempo? Average is let's say 122 BPM and I want to make the audio 122 BPM but the live band is fluctuating.
Is there no way to add your own transient markers? I'm trying to beat map a fairly warm, dense piano recording, but not all the transient markers Logic has given me accurately translate to beats. The '+' sign doesn't appear to do anything either. Please help! Update: I've increased the gain of the original file using Audacity and it appears to have detected more transients. It's mostly pretty good atm, but there's at least one bar which I still feel would benefit from me adding my own transient marker.
The only problem I have come across after closely watching your video is that the bpm counter won’t latch to anything acoustic or “singer songwriter”. Any tips? I’ve researched and found that logic has trouble finding the tempo in tracks like that... I’ve tried many different tracks and the bpm counter will not work at all.
This video is about to save my life.
I can now program drums to the hundreds of demo tracks I have recorded on my phone, before re-recording all the guitars. I can actually program drums specifically to my tunes and playing style, rather than anticipate in writing the drum tracks first. I'm not a trained drummer, but I can write drum lines with some elbow grease.
Then, I need to figure adjusting the tempo to what my final needs are. Sure, I can put it on a fixed tempo, but I want tempo variation, but a little more uniform than what I have right now. I have a bunch of parts that change tempo on a dime, but also speed up and slow down over time to add drama. That's my next goal.
Anyhow, thanks a bunch for this tutorial. I actually got Mac/Logic just because your tutorials made sense to me.
I'm a piano player and want to add drums to my songs whilst preserving the natural rubato of my playing. This is precisely the thing. Thank you!!
Some people out there still believe Logic's Drummer plug-in is nothing but a toy. This video should prove them wrong. In my opinion the added Drummer track is an instant perfect fit.
Another great tutorial Josh, thank you.
Yet another great video, Josh. Outstanding stuff. I really don't know how you find the time and energy to explore and find all this stuff out. Your mastery of Logic Pro X, Pro Tools, Melodyne, and countless plugins, is nothing short of astounding. And I've said it before and I'll say it again - you have a wonderful mastery of teaching, as well as a superbly modulated and clear voice. These are the best tutorials on UA-cam in my 'umble opinion :)
I realize I am kinda randomly asking but does anybody know of a good place to stream new tv shows online?
@Kian Nicolas flixportal xD
@Rogelio Ryker thanks, I went there and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :D I really appreciate it!!
@Kian Nicolas no problem xD
Fabulous video, thank you so much, this is exactly what I have been looking for.
I completed an acoustic-heavy Garageband recording in 2005 but without a click track: layered multiple acoustics, I played drums and bass via key-in with my midi keyboard. In the end, the overall mix sounded great (imo) but you can hear the slight, occasionally clumsy, tempo changes. I want to redo the whole song to put onto Soundcloud, but with proper drums using the Drummer tool and tighter bass. I attempted to redo the song (with a click) from scratch in Logic Pro X this weekend but I simply cannot replicate the guitars or the excellent stereo effects from '05. So, I've decided that I want to use the original '05 tracks instead. But, the tempo varies so much that it can't work without utilizing this approach.
Fingers crossed that I can make this work due to having so many tracks to Beat map. But onward ho, I expect many hours lay ahead. Thanks again for this lesson.
You’re just a fantastic teacher. So precise so systematic and you make it so simple. 👍👍👍
Only just getting back into music and pickup up on logic x having struggled with 9 feeling very bewildering. Came across your channel and I've got to say (as others have) your teaching style is supreme. The way you articulate the point with absolutely no faff or waffle is so powerful, logical (no pun intended) and clear. Perfect tempo and Straight to the point every time. Mastery in the extreme. So going to enjoy going through each and every one. Your simplicity is inspirational. Please keep doing it.
Josh, just want to add praise brother! This one gave me exactly what I needed to know. interesting thing about new logic's BPM counter...it doesn't work. It could be the recordings I tried it on, but I figured out a work around. Anyway, I'm really glad you are putting these incredible videos out there, cheers!
My word just doubled in size. I stubbled into the beat mapping by option today, hadn't ever heard it mentioned. Thanks for such a solid run down on it!
Im stoked!
This is the best, most helpful video I have seen in over 5 years. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG! This is fantastic. I'm also a singer/songwriter with the same way of recording as the guy writing the mail. I've tried matching the audio with flex time but now I'll test this. I've known about the feature but not how to use it. Now I know thanks to you. Thank you so much! Keep up the great work!
this is one of the best videos on Logic I have ever seen. Thank you! I have been trying tow work out how to add drums to my audio (Guitar) for a year. Never imagined it would be so easy. And now they have added Free tempo recording into Logic it just got easier I guess. Thanks Josh.
Wow. Never heard of this function. Thanks so much for bringing it to my attention!
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.
ah Man - you have no idea how much time you've saved me with this one lesson - thank you so much for this Logic series - I've gone form being a complete techno phobe to having the best fun ever
This is proper tidy darts. Beat mapping is the forgotten holy grail of groove.
Just stumbled upon this and wow .. allowed me to complete a song that I wrote on acoustic guitar with an odd beat that I had left alone for almost 7 years! Excellent. And I am continuously astounded by the power of Logic.
Best tutorial I found on this subject. Thank you!
Thanks for the upbeat greetings at the beginnings of your videos!
Love your tutorial! just got into recording live audio so it helps learning these neat work-flow tricks. Keep on posting and ill keep on liking!
thank you for solving this problem thats bothering me for years!
Beat mapping is rule #1 , thanks for this beneficial tutorial .
Such a great video !! I would have never guessed this feature even existed never mind actually having it in Logic !!!!!
Oh you kids today with your fancy computers !!!
just an update , if you are using Logic Pro 10.6 , You have to enable Beat Mapping in Expert Editing Settings , but dont worry , Logic tells you and enables it for you if you use the short cut key : Shift - Command - B
This was extremely helpful, thanks so much! :D also props to whoever requested the vid ^^
Thanx a lot for this awesome helpful tutorial! 👍
Awesome thanks very much for that! Exactly what I was looking for!
I'm amazed, as a masters degree advanced production student and graduate, and actually a logic certified pro this is one thing I didn't know existed, though it makes perfect sense that it does. Very useful in particular for more free flow forms of music like jazz or even classical music in terms of composing accompaniment without destroying the material by overusing flex time. Thanks!
I love you bro I was looking for ages for such technique it is way easier for songwriting
Dude this is better than using flextime because the rhythm has more of human swing to it. Great video!
Thanks for the tips....this is great!
Great tutorial, I was waiting this since long time, thanks!
Best tutorial! So helpful! Thank you so much!
Wow. Never knew this open secret. Thank you. Great tut.
Happy new year man and a big thank oh my god you helped me a lot thank you and god bless you.
Cheers mate! FYI, you can drag back from bar 1 to extent to bar 0 (or beyond) if you ever felt the need to start from 1.
Thank you Sooooooo much for putting this up. I was looking at this all wrong. Trying to do it all with a click track and Flex Time, and messing up my creativity. This is a perfect solution for me.
Excellent Tutorial! Thanks again!
WOW!!! WOW!!! WOW!!! Thank you so much, you beautiful man!
This is awesome. Thanks so much!
Your video tutorial is a life-saver! Thank you so much!
Excellent video lesson, thank you! Just wanted to let you know that the "Transients" works fine in my Beat Mapping function (version 10.3.3).
great -- i've been waiting for this one...
Spectacular video, so useful.
Thank you so much! That has been sooo super helpful and you have made it really easy to understand. :-)
Thank you immensely! This was wonderfully helpful! I am so grateful!
Really interesting one...thanks again !
Great video, thanks.
stellar vid
this is epic... thanks a million ... you have stopped me from losing my mind lol :)
Great video thank you very much well done
Thank you so much. Looking for that for weeks!
Hey there, really good video. I'm a seasoned Logic user but never used beat mapping before until recently. Really easy to follow and the results are very encouraging...
pretty cool lesson here thank you :)
Why didn’t I learn this earlier! Thank you! It changes everything.
This just awesome. Thank you! Are you planning to do one with beatmapping working with movies?
Just what I was looking for, sweet!! Thanks a lot
Amazing man, really well explained. I always suggest to my friends who use Logic to check our your videos, they are for me the best ones about Logic Pro X. Do you actually give any online lessons?
Thanks for making this video! Very helpful stuff! Just wrapped up transcribing Lianne La Havas's "Wonderful" (which pulls from 80 - 95 and back down) on Garageband.. wish there was a handy trick on that DAW.
Thank you for this
👏🏻❤️😇
Just found this , brilliant thank you
Sooooo nice
Thankyouthankyouthankyou!!! So so much!!!! You made my day with this video :)
this is gold! p.s instead of choosing polyphonic/complex mode the way you do it, can you also as an alternative just go into the time+pitch machine and enter the digits of the new and "preferred" bpm? It seems to work
Incredible. Thank you
great vid thx !
this was amazing i wish it coud be done in fl studio 12 i shall check it out cuz i like to improv alot
Great video:D
Lifesaver- thank you.
SO helpful! thank you so very much
omg!!! great video
Thank you
Very helpful, thanks
Awesome!!! Thank you.
Great video not sure about the drum track but it served the purpose 😊
Thanks.
Sweeeeeet.
Handy. Thanks
great video- and very well explained - would this by chance also work with using other drum VST's like EzDrummer ?
+Jon Tate MIDI Beat Clock controls tempos events in MIDI recordings and software instruments. It's universal, so it should work fine with any third-party instruments.
Thank you for clarification- and thanks for putting this video tutorial together!
Do you think that a normal phone recording could be used for this ? Because then I can record a few versions of a song and choose an appropriate 'take' to use as a beat map.
Then mute that track and record fresh over the beatmapped drums.
Thanks.
I will try anyway.Thank you for this great video
This is a great video I'm learning it now BUT when I click Beats from Regions no pop-up window opens. What should I do?
Hi I am Beat Mapping one of my favourite Neil Young tunes so I can follow his performance nuances. One frustrating thing I find is that I did the whole song and then went back to review a couple of notes which were not quite beat mapped correctly. But when I deleted the mapping it moved everything after it and so it was no longer lined up with the mapping I had done. Is there a way to 'lock' the mapping so that it sticks to a note you mapped it to?
Thanks for the video, real life saver! On some songs, though, for some reason it gives me a metronome time that's double what I need. Is there a quick fix for that? Thanx!!!
i hope the drummers in time with the drums !
GREAT!!!
Can you tell if there is a chance to do this in pro tools this easy? you nailed it wuth this video
Thank you! This was so helpful. Can the same be applied to vocals? Can the vocals and guitar be set to match up groovwise and tempo wise?
Yes, you can use the "Beat mapping" feature on any audio track (midi as well). Remember that it doesn't actually change the audio or stretch the audio. It keeps your performance of voice or guitar the same. Beat mapping is making the grid match your human performance so that the click track moves with your fluctuating performance.
Exceedingly useful video!! Question: once the beat has been mapped and you can see the variety of actual bpm bar to bar...what bpm do you use as a reference when you then bring in a second audio track to tempo stretch?
Is there a way to tempo map by tapping the tempo?
I have a very busy track with distortion that Logic can't calculate the transients to properly. Tapping it out will be much easier in my case, as I can do it in minutes rather than taking hours.
There is no drum beat and I'm playing rhythm and lead simultaneously, with all sorts of speed ups and speed downs throughout the whole song. I'm trying to ultimately turn this into a guide track to program drums and then re-record everything. It also doesn't help that the recording was originally done with my phone's mic.
Figured it out. Turned quantize of and taped out 1/4 notes with a high hat and used that to make the beatmap.
SCORE
Very useful, thank you! What's the software you're using which shows up in the top right corner as bars? Is it CPU load or something like that?
It's called CPU LED.
Hi, very cool Info, Thank you. Is it possible to do beat mapping for multiple audio tracks? I recorded a Band with Drums, Bass, two Guitars and Vocals. Now i would like to beat map only the drums, then quantize the rest of the Instruments to that map with flex time. So far, flexing tracks to an existing map(the Drum Map) was only possible with tracks that i recorded AFTER the beat mapping. When i tried this in a project with all the Tracks already recorded and i did the beat mapping of the drums then, it did not work. I tried it a few different ways, but i did something wrong apparently.
I'm doing long 10-minute tracks of rhythm guitar in the new adapt mode in 10.4.6 and want to keep the varied tempo that was played. The problem I'm having is sometimes it misidentifies the tempo which makes it impossible to add a software instrument like a drum track to it. What is the best way to correct that? I haven't found any tutorials on editing the smart tempo when it's in need of correction
Greate video. I would like to ask you if you have a solution to beat map a piano and voice that were recorded with a free time at the same time. I would like to beat map only de piano. I can do it using the traditional beat map tool on the midi piano but meaby you found an easier way. Thanks a lot
Great video, but I'm missing something. I add a .mp3 file, open the global tracks, right click and add beat mapping, but I never see the transients. Am I missing a setting somewhere? I know I can select the 'analyze transients' option, but I like the idea that it happens automatically. Help!
This is awesome, thank you! The only problem im having is that, ill find a tempo in Drummer which is very close to what I want so I've got the feel of the song, say 70 bpm. I'll then record my rhythm guitar without any click or drum reference (trying for a more natural feel). But when logic analyses the take for beat mapping it is showing DOUBLE the tempo, I wonder why this is? I can get drummer to play at half speed so it matches want I want but this limits my options a lot Any ideas MTHG?
Hi. Anyway to put a live recording to a strict tempo? Average is let's say 122 BPM and I want to make the audio 122 BPM but the live band is fluctuating.
Most probably a silly question but is there anything I can do when double tracking a guitar. Like is there anything I could do for the second take?
Is there no way to add your own transient markers? I'm trying to beat map a fairly warm, dense piano recording, but not all the transient markers Logic has given me accurately translate to beats. The '+' sign doesn't appear to do anything either. Please help!
Update: I've increased the gain of the original file using Audacity and it appears to have detected more transients. It's mostly pretty good atm, but there's at least one bar which I still feel would benefit from me adding my own transient marker.
The only problem I have come across after closely watching your video is that the bpm counter won’t latch to anything acoustic or “singer songwriter”. Any tips? I’ve researched and found that logic has trouble finding the tempo in tracks like that... I’ve tried many different tracks and the bpm counter will not work at all.
seco el loco!
Would you ever flex time the start of every bar of the sample and make sure it lines up and THEN use beat mapping?
When you change the tempo why didn’t it stretch the audio? Are there different settings