![]() ![]() ![]() Your playing style needs to be clear, therefore, and, within reason, ‘rhythmic’. The technology is based on establishing downbeats and then using the time between these two points to establish the tempo. The breakthrough with Smart Tempo is that Logic can interpret what you’ve played and adjust the project tempo to your performance.Īt first, Smart Tempo can seem little more than a cheap gimmick, but for ‘looser’, more naturalistic musical styles the ability to play a part without the constant ‘tick tock’ of a metronome is liberating! Add drums, loops and so on, and everything fits perfectly with your performance, retaining the all-important expression that tempo fluctuations can bring.Īs with all automated ‘intelligent’ processes, there are limits to what Smart Tempo can interpret. Working inside a DAW has traditionally meant being slaved to the click at all points. One of the headline features of Smart Tempo is the freedom to record both MIDI and Audio information into Logic without the need of a click. Much of what can be achieved with Smart Tempo could have been achieved prior to 10.4.1, although it required more human input and, more importantly, time to achieve. Technically speaking, Smart Tempo is an ‘intelligent’ front-end to Flex Time technology – clever enough to extract precise tempo information from a range of audio material, and also flexible and intuitive enough to let you work with the information in a variety of ways. Rather than being built from scratch, Smart Tempo is bolt-on to the Flex Time technology first introduced in Logic Pro 9. ![]() With the introduction of Smart Tempo in 10.4, and in 10.4.2, the option to apply Smart Tempo features across multitrack performances, it’s well worth spending some time understanding new tempo functionality as in many ways Logic now leads the field in respect to tempo flexibility! Indeed, Logic Pro X now includes a wealth of tempo-related functionality that offers flexibilities in both directions – whether you’re locking a range of different loops to a single tempo, for example, or trying to lock Logic’s tempo to the more elasticated grid of a real performance. We’ve undoubtedly come a long way since the days of manually time-stretching or re-pitching a drum loop to place it in-sync with the tempo of your MIDI sequencer. ![]()
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