nautonnier
Logician
I am doing a digital dj mix in Logic. I have a song in MP3 format that I've imported and Logic converts to aif (wish it converted it to my Logic preference of wav but whatever). This is a commercially released dance track so it is compressed pretty hard and rides 0.0db fairly steadily. Now, I want to change the tempo of this song to match the tempo of the project. I have used two methods and both radically alter the volume of the track:
1. Flex: I turn on Flex mode, set the track to Polyphonic (with Complex checked). I Option+drag the lower right corner to the left some. Result: the song is now clipping at 4+db.
2. Time Machine: I set the original BPM and the target BPM and click Process and Paste. Result: the song now only tops around -3db (plus this is a destructive edit--I did make a copy).
Am I doing something wrong here? There is no way that altering the volume of the audio file is acceptable. I use Traktor all the time and the volume is not changed at all no matter what speed I change it to? Bad algorithm in Logic? Id10t error? I guess I could just use Time Machine, put a limiter on the main bus (was planning on doing that anyway) and boost the gain of the track back up. I was also thinking of re-recording the song out from Traktor at the desired speed but I was also hoping to import the songs as Apple Loops so I could fiddle with the key.
Any help would be appreciated.
Some suggestions that would NOT be appreciated (so kindly keep them to yourself) would be:
- Use Ableton (I don't own it and I'm not going to buy it)
- Use Traktor (I want to do some extra-fancy studio tricks so I'd like to keep it in logic)
1. Flex: I turn on Flex mode, set the track to Polyphonic (with Complex checked). I Option+drag the lower right corner to the left some. Result: the song is now clipping at 4+db.
2. Time Machine: I set the original BPM and the target BPM and click Process and Paste. Result: the song now only tops around -3db (plus this is a destructive edit--I did make a copy).
Am I doing something wrong here? There is no way that altering the volume of the audio file is acceptable. I use Traktor all the time and the volume is not changed at all no matter what speed I change it to? Bad algorithm in Logic? Id10t error? I guess I could just use Time Machine, put a limiter on the main bus (was planning on doing that anyway) and boost the gain of the track back up. I was also thinking of re-recording the song out from Traktor at the desired speed but I was also hoping to import the songs as Apple Loops so I could fiddle with the key.
Any help would be appreciated.
Some suggestions that would NOT be appreciated (so kindly keep them to yourself) would be:
- Use Ableton (I don't own it and I'm not going to buy it)
- Use Traktor (I want to do some extra-fancy studio tricks so I'd like to keep it in logic)
